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Volume 62/ Number 8
Southport, N.C.
October 7,1992 / 50 cents
$1,000,000
tax receipt
is a record
Brunswick County sales tax
receipts, whichnearly reached
a million dollars the previous
month, topped that figure for
the first time ever in August.
The N. C. Department of
Revenue reported that
$ 1,007,058 was collected here
during the month. The amount
will be added to the July and
September collections, then
distributed to Brunswick
County and municipal gov
ernments on a quarterly basis.
Brunswick County ranked
17th among North Carolina's
100 counties in collection of
the local-option tax in Au
gust.
Few attend
hearing on
CAMA plan
Bv Holly Edwards
County Editor
Brunswick County's proposed
Coastal Area Management Act
(C AM A) land use plan indicates that
septic tanks are polluting the environ
ment and that over half of the soils in
the county are not suited for septic
tanks. Long Beach mayor Joan Altman
told the board of commissioners and
the planning board Tuesday night
during a public workshop on the pro
posed land use plan.
Therefore, she said, county offi
cials should take the lead in planning
for wastewater treatment throughout
the county, rather than leaving it to
individual municipalities and sani
tary districts.
Although a policy in the proposed
plan states that the county will en
courage the use of small, package
treatment plants in areas with soil
limitations for septic tanks. Altman
urged county officials to broaden their
scope. Rather than constructing a large
number of small treatment plants, she
said, it would make more sense to
construct larger treatment plants that
would serve several communities.
"I don't mean countywide sewage
treatment.'' Altman said. "But I spe
cifically ask that you provide for
countywide wastewater manage
ment."
Planning board member John Th
ompson agreed.
"It can be argued that the quality of
our environment, our rivers, marshes,
and oceanfront. is potentially endan
gered by the absence of viable waste
treatment." Thompson said in a letter
to the planning board. "A single, cen
tral system is obviously out of the
question, but it does not follow that
we have no responsibility to look at
other options, including simp^y.jsup
porting the concept of several com
munities jointly creating sewer ser
vice districts or planning for future
See CAMA, page 6
A $43,855 SMILE
•SLAM,
Jack Wood led the field in the 14th U.S. Open
King Mackerel Tournament over the weekend with
Photo by Jim Harper
a40.15-pound king. Almost $140,000 in cash prizes
were awarded, and Wood won $43,85,$.
Locals finish second, third
Jack Wood took another bow
in the winner’s circle Sunday,
accepting a $43,855 check as
winner of the 14th U. S. Open
King Mackerel Tournament,
one of the best ever.
The Rolesville angler, who
fished aboard the winning boat
two years ago, took top honors
in this year's event with a40.15
pound king mackerel and gar
nered $25,000 in first-prize
money plus an additional
$18,855 in the tournament
within-a-toumament.
Second and third prizes, and
the balance of the toumament
within-a-toumament pet, were
taken by local boats.
Capt. Mike Helms of Long
Beach and family fishing
aboard his charter boat Salty
U.S. Open results,
page 23
Dog won $21,33! witha39.65
pound king and John Hawes.
HI, ofLong Beach and his crew
aboard the Shamu took third
with a 39.40-pound king and
won $12,542.
Fishing with Wood aboard
the Team Laguna were Tom
and Sylvia Slack of Knoxville.
Tenn. Two years ago Wood
crewed aboard the winning/oy
See Locals, page 24
County considers Beivule park
By Holly Edwards ,
County Editor
Brunswick County commissioner
Donald Shaw and a group of county
residents said they would like the
county to fund development of a boat
ramp and park in Belville along the
Cape Fear River, but other commis
sioners said they needed more details
cn the cost of the project.
"I don't have a problem with the
concept, but I think we need to look at
a figure amount,” commissioner Jerry
Jones said at a board meeting Monday
night. Td hate to find out it was not
enough,or it was too much."
Shaw said he planned to ask com
missioners to approve appropriates
$50,000 from county contingency
*It would be a good, clean, nice family
entertainment area. And it would proba
bly bring the town together. We really
need it bad
Donald Shaw
County commissioner i
funds to pay for construction ol a boat
ramp, picnic area, tennis court and
playground at the 11-acre site. Rep.
David Redwine (D-Brunswick) has
promised state funds to pay for the
cost of dredging the river near the
area, he said.
''I think we should do something to
promote it," Shaw said. "It would be a
good, clean, nice family entertain
ment area. And it would probably
bring the town together. We really
need it bad."
If the county funds initial develop
ment of the park. S haw said, the To wn
See Belville, page 6
Parents object
to strict school
absence policy
B* Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
Ralph Johnston was officially initi
ated into his new job as superinten
dent when he was confronted by a
large crow d of disgruntled parents at
Monday night's Brunswick County
Board of Education meeting.
Upset by the board's new ten-day
absenteeism policy and the’"Choices”
program, the parents occupied about
the first hour of the meeting voicing
their concerns about having their chil
dren make up missed class time.
We feel it's wrong to punish a
child if it's sick or for parental mis
judgment." Betty Sellers of the Sup
ply Elementary School PTA told the
board.
Several parents of elementary
school children were concerned about
limit mgthe number of absences to ten
because younger children contract ill
nesses. such aschicken pox or measles,
that may require extended absences
from school.
She said the policy which limits
i
'We're trying to
give students an op
portunity to learn
they have a respon
sibility.... We have
had a tremendous
improvement in at
tendance
Terry Brett
West Brunswick Hi^h
absences to ten days and allows stu
dents to make up missed class tune is
more appropriate for middle and high
school students than for elementary
students. She requested the numberol
absences be increased to 15 or 20
days.
Assistant superintendent Mose
See Parents, page 6
Principals report
no complaints yet
Bv Marvbeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
BrunswickCountv's 12 principals will meet with the superintendent on
Monday to discuss their plans for making up absences under the new
attendance policy.
Lattv Stanley, interim principal at Southport Elementary School, said
each school's plans were due October 1 and no formal policy has yet been
established.
''So far we haven't had any complaints." Stanley said of the new policy
which this year, cut the number of allowable absences in half to ten days.
Three Southport Elementary teachers will stay after school until 5 p.m.
to offer remediation to students who need extra academic help, who need
to complete special assignments, or w ho must make up missed class time.
Stanley said students will be given other opportunities to get class j
credit. For instance, if a student is missing school for a family trip he may i
be told to keep a journal of the trip making use of maps, information about
the sites visited and other experiences along the way.
Although South Brunswick Middle had formulatedapolicy formaking
up absences after the third day of school missed, principal Les Tubb said
Tuesday he wanted to delay discussing the school's policy further until
after the meeting M rdav. '
"We really haven't had many complaints." said Karl Tutt. South
Brunsw ick High School's Comprehensive Management Program coordi
nator. There are. how e\ er. a few students "w ho buck the system." he said.
Progress reports are going out to parents this week, and students are
being given "every opportunity possible to make up the time." Tutt said.
South Brunswick s policy states that a student can miss three days of
school and make up their class work at home. After the third day they have
to make up the time alter school or on Saturday.
"One of the criticisms of the school system. not just Brunswick County
but school systems in general, is we’ve talked a great deal about respon
sibility. but we've never given them that much. Now were giving it to
them," Tutt said of the students.
OUTSIDE
Forecast
The extended forecast
calls for mostly sunny
skies on Thursday, with
highs in the 70s and lows
in the 50s. Friday and
Saturday expect partly
cloudy skies with the .
same temperatures, but
look for cooler weather
by Sunday with highs ex
pected near 70.
Tide table
HIGH
LOW
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
,6:13 a.m.
(5:41 p.m.
12:05 a.m.
12:24 p.m.
(5:57 a.m.
7:19 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10
7:37 a.m.
8:00 p.m.
1:27 a.m.
1:50 p.m.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11
8:14 a.m. 2:04 a.m.
8:33 p.m. 2:32 p.m.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12
8:51a.m. 2:42 a.m.
9:09 p.m. 3:11p.m.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13
9:27 a-m. 3:18 am.
9:43 p.m. 3:50 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
10:06 a.m. | 3:55 a.m.
lO-.Wom. 4:32 p.m.
The following adjustments should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10, low -7; Caswell
Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, high +7,
low +15, Yaupon Beach, high -32, low -43;
Lockwood Folly, high -22, low -8.