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THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Volume 48 Number 7
September 1, 1976
Southport, TV. C.
2 Sections, 24 Pages
10 Cents
C.B. Jamboree
On Sept. 24-26
A Citizens Band “Jamboree By-The-Sea” co
sponsored by the Oak Island C.B. Club and the
Southport-Oak Island Chamber of Commerce
will be held Sept. 24-26 at Long Beach.
The first annual event, which will replace
“Octoberfest” as a fall attraction for the beach
communities, is expected to draw between 5,000
and 10,000 weekend visitors to the area.
“We have seen the success of C.B. jam
borees,” aid Chairman Mike Williams. “The
Brunswick County C.B. Club held a similar event
during the Azalea Festival and attracted several
thousand persons. Last spring when we started
preparing we learned that a jaraboree was
scheduled in the state every weekend this fall.”
The co-sponsors believe the attraction of the
beach will make this jamboree one of the best.
“We will have the customary displays and
entertainment, but we have so much to offer that
the ‘Jamboree By-The-Sea’ should be enjoyable
for the whole family,” Williams noted.
Included in the three-day schedule are
children’s events, a junior fishing tournament, a
miniature golf tournament and dancing. “And
die beach strand is only a couple hundred feet
away from the jamboree site,” the chairman
said. Golf also is available.
The Chamber of Commerce interest in the
jamboree is bringing vacationers - and therefore
business - to the community.
“We have seen that C.B. activity revolves
around the family,” said Chamber President
John Barbee. “Many will bring their campers
and this helps the campgrounds; others will stay
in area motels and rent cottages from realtors;
they will buy groceries and other items here;
and they will eat in area restaurants.
“We can see a tremendous impact on business
in the area that weekend,” he said.
In order to not conflict with business for area
merchants the sale of concessions has been
limited to refreshments by the beach C.B. club
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IMPROVEMENTS ARE being made to the Sawdust Trail intersection of
NC routes 211 (extending from upper left to lower right of the photo) and 87.
Work involves the widening of both routes to include turning lanes and,
according to officials in the Departmeflt of Transportation, traffic signals.
Nailheads Hold Answer
To Leaky School Roofs
By BILL ALLEN
Staff Writer
The solution to the leaking
roofs at the three county high
schools has apparently been
found, Brunswick County
Board of Education members
were told at a special meeting
Monday night.
“Yes, I think so now,”
Architect Robert Sawyer told
member William Sue, who
asked if the roofs would stop
leaking after the work was
completed.
Sawyer also gave the board
a report on the project to
install air - conditioners in the
six school cafeterias without
them. He said the installation
work would not be finished
until October.
Sawyer told the board that
the contractor on the roof
project has had a number Of
problems since starting the
work to replace the three
roofs this spring.
In fact, he said the roofs
still leaked, especially when
heavy wind accompanied
Enrollment Up;
Anderson Out
School board attorney
Mason Anderson was fired
during a special meeting of
the Brunswick County Board
of Education on Monday
night.
The board voted
unanimously to instruct Supt.
Ralph King to tell Anderson
that the board “no longer
desired his services.’’
Anderson, who is a
Shallotte attorney, did not
attend the meeting where he
was fired.
King was also instructed to
make a recommendation at
the next meeting, which will
be held September 13, about
the employment of a new
school board attorney.
Chairman Wilbur Earl
Rabon said that King should
request that Anderson turn
over all legal matters per
taining to the school board.
The action to dismiss
Anderson was taken after the
board had voted unanimously
to hold a closed executive
session to discuss “per
sonnel.” Member - Elect
Shirley Babson, who was
attending the meeting,
members of the public
present and the press were
told to leave the room while
the closed session was being
held.
The closed session lasted
less than three minutes, and
the board then voted
unanimously to fire Ander
son. No public reason was
given for the action.
In other business, King told
the board that the school
system experienced one of its
best opening days this year
although some problems
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rain storms, after they were
replaced at South and West
Brunswick.
An investigation was
conducted and it was found
that the water was going
through the decks at the nail
heads, Sawyer reported. “We
are having to seal every nail
head to solve the problem,’’
he declared. “There is no
question that it must be
done.”
Sawyer said the contractor
originally estimated that it
would cost $11,302 per school
to seal the nail heads ot
prevent leaking.
After doing more figuring
on the price, Sawyer said the
contractor has determined
that the work to seal the nail
heads at each school will cost
no more than $10,565.
“This is what is stopping
the leaks on the roofs,”
Sawyer declared.
“He will do the work at
costs and guarantee that the
price will not exceed $10,565
per school,” the architect told
the board members.
Sawyer said he has never
faced a problem where a roof
leaked because of the nails.
“I can’t explain why the
problem about the nails never
came to our attention,” he
stated. “I have made a
specific request to the
manufacturer to provide us
with information about the
nails being used in other
construction.”
Sawyer also told the board
that the interiors of both
South and West Brunswick
high schools suffered “ex
tensive damages” from the
rain while work was being
done on the roofs. He said the
rain damage to the interiors
resulted from a lack of
coordination and bad
weather.
He said there would be no
problem with having the roof
contractor, who is respon
sible under contract,to repair
the interiors damaged by the
rain.
Sawyer said the contractor
has informed him that the
roof and interior work at
South Brunswick should be
finished by the end of the
week. He said a detailed
inspection will be made
before the work is accepted.
He said the crew working
on South Brunswick will
move to North Brunswick to
begin major work after
finishing the first school. He
said the work at West
Brunswick should be finished
in about two weeks.
He told member W.T.
Bowen that a lot of water had
dropped on the West Brun
swick basketball gym floor.
But he said the exact damage
has not been determined.
Sawyer said the contractor
will not have to do as much
deck work at the schools as
was originally believed. He
said the work will cost less
than anticipated.
The architect admitted that
the roofing projects at the
three schools moved off to a
“horrendous start” because
of the rainy weather and
other problems, especially
since the type of shingle had
to be changed.
“The first 30 days had to be
used to orient the crews and
get the workmanship to
acceptable standards,” he
explained.
He said the problems have
apparently been solved and
the “job is moving along well
now.”
The board voted
unanimously to approve
change orders to pay the
additional costs to seal the
nail heads. “We want to do
what is necessary to have
leak - proof roofs,” Chairman
Wilbur Earl Rabon declared.
The board is paying the
costs to have repairs made to
the three roofs, which have
leaked since the high schools
opened four years ago. The
board plans to take legal
action to obtain money for the
projects.
Sawyer also told the board
that the air - conditioning
projects for the six lun
chrooms will not be com
pleted until October.
“I feel the equipment will
arrive within the next week,”
he reported. “I expect it will
take three to four weeks to
install the units. I guess we
are looking at October. ’ ’
Sawyer said the air -
conditioning units are late
arriving because they were
not ordered until the first of
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Holiday Closings
Most everybody will be closed on Monday in
observance of Labor Day.
Schools, banks, savings and loan associations,
and city, county and federal offices will all take
the day off. The post offices will offer box service
oily.
Health Board OK’s
Minimum Lot Sizes
Minimum lot sizes for
construction have been
established for the first time
in the history of Brunswick
County.
The action to require lots to
have no less than 15,000
square feet in area to contain
a septic tank was approved
by members of the Brun
swick County Board of
Health.
The minimum lot size is
contained in the 31-page
“Rules and regulations
governing the disposal of
sewage from any residence,
place of business or place of
public assembly in Brun
swick County.” The new rules
and regulations will take
effect in all areas of Brun
swick County on September
13, including municipalities.
“No permit shall be issued
for the installation of a septic
tank system on any lot less
that 15,000 square feet in
area,” the new regulation
states.
The only exceptions are “in
approved mobile home
courts; where there is a
corporate water system, or
otherwise approved by the
Health Director.”
Brunswick County Health
Director Richard Walker said
that he plans to grant no
exceptions to the new rules
and regulations under his
authority.
“The rules and regulations
are designed to basically
limit the use of septic tanks to
soils that are suitable for
nitrification,” Walker stated.
Chief Brunswick County
Sanitarian Jerry Webb, who
drafted the rules and
Swain Defends
Non-Residency
Director of Purchasing and Personnel David
Swain has defended his residency in New
Hanover County while working for Brunswick
County.
Swain, a native of Brunswick County, said he.*
feels “sure that I pay more Brunswick County
property tax than the average taxpayer. If J.K.
Bradbury and Elias Sloan are taxpayers of this
county please let them come forward and li§t
their taxes so that they can be billed for same.”
He said he could not find in county records
where they are listed as taxpayers. “These
people seem so concerned about the county
taxpayers’ money paying the salary of the
county personnel director,” Swain said in a
letter addressed to the editor.
In theAugust 25 edition Bradbury had written a
letter to the editor critical of Swian for working
in the county for over a year while continuing to
live in New Hanover County.
“If a place is good enough to work in, it’s good
enough to live in,” said the Bradbury letter.
The Sloan letter the week before had raised the
question of whether Brunswick County had. a
residency requirement for employment.
regulations at the request of
the Health board, said they
“basically put in writing
what we have been doing,
with the exception of
establishing minimum lot
sizes.”
Webb, who pointed out that
he has been working on new
rules and regulations since
April, said they were com
parable to state regulations.
“The General Assembly
has adopted a law that says
that sewage disposal systems
installed improperly or in
unsuitable soil or in areas too
densely populated have a
detrimental effect on the
public health through con
tamination of the ground
water supply, and enacted
legislation in 1973 to insure
the regulation of a ground
absorption sewage disposal
system,” he explained.
Webb pointed out that most
of the counites in the state
have minimum lot sizes for
septic tanks. Most of the
minimums are 20,000 square
feet.
“It (15,000 square feet) is a
big jump, especially when
you consider that we have
never had a minimum lot
size,” Webb declared. “We
were looking for a workable
regulation for the county and
I think 15,000 square feet of
usable land is a workable lot.
It gives more room for septic
tanks on lots.”
Webb said he did not
believe the minimum lot size
would impose a hardship on
land owners. in the county
“although it will take getting
used to it.”
The minimum lot size will
not apply to lots recorded at
the Brunswick County
Register of Deeds office
before the ordinance goes
into effect on September 13.
In addition to minimum lot
sizes, the rules and
regulations spell out the soil
absorption system used in the
department. A site evaluation
will now include topography,
soil characteristics, ground
water elevation, depth to
impervious strata and per
colation tests. Ground water
elevation and percolation
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Financing Schools:
Which Way Best?
By BILL ALLEN
Staff Writer
Brunswick County Supt.
Ralph King has been in
structed to investigate the
best method to finance school
construction -needs in the
county.
King was authorized during
a meeting of the Brunswick
County Board of Education
on Monday night to develop
preliminary information
about the financing of school
construction. He said that he
planned to obtain information
from the state.
School board members took
the action after receiving a
resolution from Brunswick
County commissioners.
Commissioners said in their
resolution that they would
“accept any request for a
bond issue.”
Member William Sue
recommended that the board
delay discussion of the
resolution until King had time
to develop more information.
But member Franklin
Randolph, Mrs. Eileen
Kellagher of Holden Beach
and Mrs. Maurine Moyer of
Bolivia said they believed the
matter should be discussed at
the meeting because of the
need for schools in the
county.
Randolph said he believed
voters would approve a
school bond issue, but that it
would take hard work.
“If we tell the truth, put it
on the line and provide facts
and figures, it can be ap
proved,” he declared. “If we
fail, we can at least say we
tried. But we should let the
people speak.”
Mrs. Kellagher said her
sixth grade daughter had
headaches every day last
week because of the heat in
the school she was attending.
She said the county could
not make much progress
educating children by
building one school at a time
when so much work has to be
done.
Sue said the school board
requested a bond issue two
years ago but the county
commissioners rejected it.
They said at the time the pay
as-you-go system was the
best approach, he pointed
out.
Sue noted that the board
requested $1.5 million this
year to start planning a new
Shallotte school. But he said
the commissioners cut the
money out of the school
budget.
Sue said that using both the
pay-as-you-go approach and
a bond issue might be the best
method to finance the con
struction of schools. He said a
study should be made to
determine the best method.
Member W.T. Bowen
suggested that the board
consider holding a joint
meeting with the com
missioners to discuss the
matter. He said he questioned
whether voters would ap
prove a $10-million bond issue
at this time..
Chairman Wilbur Earl
Rabon said the board has
showed its dedication to
improve facilities during the
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