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February 2,1994/ 50 cents
Sea Horse townhomes at 4611 East Beach Drive in Long Beach, al
ready threatened by winter erosion, were severely undercut by wind
driven high tides last week that exposed long-buried tree stumps and
Photo by Jim Harper
roots. Town officials say the 11 apartments, as well as two cottages just
to the east, are unsuitable foj occupancy, ai^l plans are already un
derway to move one of the cottages to a new site.
Crime hits home
rWhipping your butt
is worth two weeks'
Second of two-part series
By Terry Pope
County Editor
On one street comer a police car is
pelted with bottles and bricks as a
drug deal is momentarily halted, leav
ing officers to watch shadows quickly
scatter into the darkness.
"We've lost the war in this county,"
said Lt. David Crocker of the Brun
swick County Sheriffs Department.
He heads the narcotics and vice divi
sion which feels at times it is losing a
grip.
For the action described above isn't
a scene from greater Los Angeles. It's
a typical weekend in the Southport or
Leland community.
"We've almost lost control in cer
tain areas," said Crocker, who invited
state legislators for a drive through
‘If you don*t give
them an alternative
they will continue.
"We can’t catch
them the second or
third time. They get
wiser.’
Lt. David Crocker
some of the tougher neighborhoods to
get a first-hand look at crime. The N.
C. General Assembly will go to work
Tuesday, February 8, in a special ses
sion in Raleigh to debate Gov. Jim
Hunt’s 36-point plan to toughen state
laws against crime, increase prison
space for criminals and revise pro
grams for juvenile offenders.
It is a $90-million package that has
gained public approval, for many
people believe more needs to be done
to combat crime in North Carolina,
which ranked 16th among 50 states in
1992 for violent crime incidents. Lo
cal officers say they have watched
both defendan ts and their victims lose
respect for laws and the justice sys
tem.
" Most of them are the same people
that we arrest over and over again,"
said Crocker. "We see some new faces
every now and then. There needs to be
some kind of training programs in
volved to teach them another way of
life."
Teenagers can earn $50 to $100
within minutes selling drugs on street
See Crime, page 8
Filing
deadline
Monday
Two incumbents on the
Brunswick County Board of
Education head the recent list
of candidates to file for public
office.
Donna Baxter, 45, of Dis
trict 4, recently returned her
residence to Boiling Spring
Lakes following a stay on Oak
Island. The Democratic chair
man filed for re-election on
Monday.
Also, Polly G. Russ, 43,
filed Friday and hopes to re
gain her District 2 seat.
Both will face opposition
in the May 3 Democratic pri
mary. Retired sheriffs deputy
Liston Hawes, 57, of Ash has
also filed for Baxter's seat.
Ms. Russ will face opposi
tion from a former school
board member, George Wil
son, 66, of Supply, who filed
See Deadline, page 6
’Summit’:
There's long
hill to climb
By Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
After talking with people through
out the school system, assistant su
perintendent Oscar Blanks said he
realized that schools alone can't solve
the problems children face in today's
society.
So last week, he invited directors of
county agencies and services to Brun
swick Community College to see if
they'd be interested in working to
gether to find a solution.
As a result of the Summit Confer
ence on Children in Crisis, a task
force comprised of members of the
summit conference panel and repre
sentatives of other agencies will be
formed to address the many and var
ied issues facing Brunswick County
children.
"We don't want this to die," Blanks
said after the three-hour summit.
"Somebody's got to do something.
We are losing too many children to
the negative forces that are influenc
ing them."
Blanks, who is the driving force
behind the effort, has scheduled a
meeting of the summit's planning com
mittee for 3 p.m. Thursday, February
3, to discuss issues raised during the
conference.
Planning committee members are
‘We not only have
to care, we have to
start cooperating
more and stop
making excuses.
We can correct the
problem but itys
going to take every
one working to
gether. ’
Jamie Orrock
DSS director
Pam Kelly, wellness coordinator:
Anne Mitchell, JTPA/drop-out pre
vention coordinator; Marianne Furcy,
school social worker: Todd Parker,
exceptional children's program coor
dinator; Glenda Browning, Brunswick
County PT A council president: Lorene
Williams, exceptional children's pro
gram director; Stephanna Tewey,
former assistant superintendent; and
Mildred Royster, Department of So
See Summit, page 8
CP&L restart
delayed again
By Jim Harper
Staff Writer
Misunderstanding between Brunswick nuclear plant operators and CP&L
physicists delayed restart of Unit 1 Monday evening, but Brunswick vice
president Roy Anderson said Tuesday that rod-pull was expected to com
mence at 5:30 p.m., and nuclear fission was expected to begin about six hours
later.
Anderson said that on Monday evening the specified number of control rods
were pulled, exposing fuel so fission could commence, and nothing happened.
He said operators immediately halted the restart process. A physicist was
consulted, and operators were told that pulling a few more rods - exposing
more fuel in the reactor - should begin the nuclear reaction.
That reaction, magnified many times, heats water and creates steam which
turns the unit's turbine and generates electricity.
"The unit has been down some two years," Anderson said Tuesday, "and it
has lost some of its reactivity - some of the plutonium decayed away."
Anderson said that calculations indicated that the Unit 1 reactor would now
See CP&L, page 6
Pilot Line is now taking calls
Riot Line, a telecommunications network that gives access to
recorded messages on a variety of topics by dialing one telephone
number and selecting rite appropriate extension. Is In service today.
"We're excited to offer this service," said Ed Harper, editor of The
State Pott Pilot. "We're excited about the possibilities.”
The Pilot Line number is457-5084. Extensions already in use are
“listed in a full-page advertisement on page 7. There is no charge to
access the service.
Harper said Riot Line will be used not only by callers seeking
information from businesses - "like restaurants, travel agents and
real estate companies” - but also by those wanting information
about the Southport-Oak Island area in general.
"One line presents information about the Southport Maritime
Museum and another gives the ferry schedule," Harper noted. "We
will add more public service lines in the next few weeks, offering
* daily tide tables, weather forecasts. The possibilities are almost
flitl
CP&L sponsors lines
for school classrooms
Pilot Line offers some good news for concerned parents, and
students who stay on top of their studies.
Parents can find out their children's homework assignments
by making a simple phone call -- anytime, day or night That
means some students will no longer be able to get away with
telling Mom and Dad there's no homework tonight when they
can give Pilot Line a call at 457-5084 and selecting the appro
priate extension. Pilot Line can also keep students who are
absent from falling behind in their school work.
On the homework lines, teachers have 90 seconds to tell
See Classrooms, page 6
Forecast
The extended forecast
calls for partly cloudy skies
Thursday with a high in the
upper 40s and a low of 30.
Sunny skies prevail Friday
with lows dropping at night
to the mid-20s. Saturday
expea mostly cloudy skies
with a high in the mid-SOs
and a low in the mid-30s.
Tide table
HIGH low
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3
1:15 a.m. 7:27 a.m.
1:29 p.m. 7:43 p.m.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4
2:20 ajn. 8:34 a.m.
2:35p.m. 8:49 pjn.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5
3:26 a-m. 9:40 a.m.
3:41 p.m. 9:53 pjn.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6
4:30a.m. 10:41a.m.
4:44 p.m. ; 10:53 p.m.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7 #
5:28 a.m. llUSaj^
5:42 p.m. 11:48 p.m.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY* .
651a.m. . 12:26 ajn.
6:34 p.m. «#.■». n.Mt,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 T,
109 a-m. ’■ 12:38 >M:
751p.m. 1:11 p.m.
The tallowing adjustment! should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10, law -7; Caswjr
Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, high +'
low +15;Yauw» Beach, high <32, tow
Lockwood FoBy Wet, high 42. low-*.
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