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VOLUME 63/ NUMBER 26
SOUTHPORT, N.C
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’Progress'
new beach
catchword
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
The president of the newly formed
political action committee Long Beach
United for Progress insists that the
group is not simply "Concerned Citi
zens of Long Beach" with anew name.
Unlike the former "concerned citi
zens" this new group wants to be
viewed as younger, more positive and
more progressive, she said.
"We’re a total new concept," de
clared president Frances Allen. "We're
determined with a positive attitude to
do good things. It’ll take a lot of work,
but I'm not lazy."
Allen said she will invite all candi
dates for office in the county to the
PAC's second official meeting, sched
uled March 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the
recreation center.
The group held its first meeting
Thursday, which Allen said was an
organizational meeting to elect offic
ers. She added that she was elected
president unanimously.
Chris Christensen was elected vice
president. and the group is now seek
ing a secretary and treasurer.
State board of elections director
Yvonnc Southerland said PACs have
ten days from the date of official
organization to register.
Groups that are active only in mu
nicipal politics, in towns with popula
tions less than 50,000, do not have to
formally register with anyone. How
ever, Southerland said that political
groups that are active in municipal as
well as county government must reg
ister with the county board of elec
See Progress, page 7
Ship sightings are always big on the Southport
waterfront, and there’s no better place to be on the
Photo by Jim Harper
lookout (and on balmy days catch a bit of early tan)
than at the end of the city pier.
Hospital trustees pay $160,000
Dosher computer 'top of line'
By Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
While Dosher Memorial Hospital
was planning to spend nearly $80,000
to upgrade its computer system, trust
ees decided Monday night to double
the expenditure to get something one
called "top of the line."
Gib Barbee presented the finance
committee's recommendation that the
hospital spend $160,260 for a "top of
the line" expansion to the computer
system that will allow nurses, ancil
lary departments and doctors to com
municate almost immediately about a
patient's condition and medical needs.
Nurses will be able to enter a
patient's vital signs directly into the
portable terminal that can be moved
from room to room so physicians can
monitor progress or order addition
tests without leaving their offices, fi
nance director Jim Shomaker ex
plained. In addition to the conve
nience, he expects the computerized
system to reduce the amount of paper
work now required of hospital staff.
Lab director Lynda Stanley said the
system can also reduce the number of
phone calls made between depart
ments and provide for a more effi
cient use of employees' time.
Trustee Gene Tomlinson said the
Haywood passes review
In his second evaluation since coming to work as administrator of Dosher
Memorial Hospital in November, 1992, Edgar Haywood III again received
high marks from his board of trustees.
Meeting in executive session Monday night, six of the trustees present
reviewed evaluation forms they had completed earlier. Dr. Robert Zukoski did
not participate.
Scores were averaged, resulting in a rating of "proficiently accomplished",
the second highest possible, chairman Charles Johnson said Tuesday.
"The board thinks he's doing a tremendous job." Johnson said, adding that
See Haywood, page 7
system may decrease the possibility
of liability charges against the hospi
tal if-patient information is plugged in
immediately after being received.
CPSI, the Mobile. Ala.-based
vender, works primarily with smaller
hospitals, and chairman Charles
Johnson said Dosher would be the
first in this area to have such a system.
Because the hospital is in good fi
nancial condition, Barbee said trust
ees can purchase such equipment.
Shomakerpresentedatimetablefor
installation, which includes sending
several people on the hospital staff to
Mobile for training, at additional cost.
He expects the system to be up and
running by September.
In other financial matters:
See Dosher, page 7
Citizens just like us
More issues than planned for
By Terry Pope
County Editor
An analysis of the news
ocating north of Southport.
Citizens grew angry and
sheriffs deputies were called
In Brunswick County, with both a rural and coastal community,
it's often difficult to plan balanced growth.
When the six appointed members of the Brunswick County
Planning Board face a decision, they must grapple with that
problem.
Members must shed their ordinary lives to become public
figures, to explore important issues and decide if certain industries
ought to be banned or if the county aiming laws need to bend.
Sometimes the board is criticized lor the decisions it leaches.
Debate almost turned into a light in October when the board
refused to use zoning controls to block a muting operation from
In to suspend Hie meeting.
” We*re not going to solve these issues any better than the rest of
the country,'* said board chairman Jchn Thompson, "because they
are difficult issues. We all know that we have a difficult job to do."
Four members are relatively new, having joined within the past
year and during a transition when die county zoning ordinance was
approved and became effective January 1.
To them.it is a new bail game. Some ask no or few questions at
board meetings, and when faced with a lengthy list of requested
zoning cbanges in October one member asked, "Do we have to look
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Second bridge
to Oak Island
gets attention
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
Oak Island's representative to the
N. C. Board of Transportation has
vowed not the let the drive for a sec
ond bridge off the island to die at the
board's monthly meeting in Raleigh
this week.
"It will be my purpose to make sure
we get that second bridge built as
soon as we can," declared board mem
ber Odell Williamson, of Ocean Isle
Beach. "I don't want the second bridge
off of Oak Island to die on the vine
during my term."
Williamson said he would urge the
board, secretary of transportation Sam
Hunt and governor Jim Hunt to do all
they can to ensure the project remains
a priority on the Transportation 1m
See Bridge, page 20
‘It will be my pur
pose to make sure
we get that second
bridge built as soon
as we can. I donyt
want the second
bridge off of Oak
Island to die on the
vine during my
term.y
Odell Williamson
Regional trash
plan is favored
By Teri;y Pope
County Editor
County officials hope to strike a
deal with a neighbor and begin haul
ing garbage to a regional landfill - in
Columbus County.
"We're going to explore that op
tion,” said Don Warren, chairman of
the Brunswick County Board of Com
missioners. "If we could work out a
long-term contract with them. I'd
rather do that. It makes more sense,
both economically and environmen
tally, to go to a regional system."
County manager Wyman Yelton
was instructed by the chairman to
"speed up the process and discus
sions" with Columbus County offi
cials and the developer of a regional
landfill site there, American Refuse
Systems Inc. of Pinehurst.
ARS president Thomas Hughes
addressed commissioners in October
and asked the board then to consider
the regional facility. He estimated the
county would spend around S40 per
ton to bury its own garbage but $25
per ton in tipping fees to dump at the
ARS site.
Officials must decide if they want
to pursue permits for a new county
facility or rely instead on hauling gar
bage away.
The county has already identified
three potential sites for a new landfill.
all in the Supply area. But at a public
hearing in January, residents criti
cized the siting committee for choos
ing sensitive locations near the
Lockwood Folly River basin and its
tributaries.
By federal law, counties which don't
See Trash, page 5
Gypsy moth
treatments
set to begin
By Terrv Pope
County Editor
One way to treat a local g\ psy moth
invasion is to spray with Gypchek. a
natural virus that attacks only larvae
of the targeted moth.
But a supply is limited, enough to
cover just 6,000 acres labeled as hav
ing "unique geographical and bio
logical characteristics" in the South
port community.
Local residents want to know where
those specific areas are while Bald
Head Island authorities lobby for
Gypchek, in hopes that other wildlife
on the island won't be harmed.
The plan may be relcascd'at a March
See Moths, page 8
I OUTSIDE’
Forecast '
i
The extended forecast
calls for continued windy
weather Thursday with a
high in the middle 50s
and low in the middle
40s. Partly cloudy skies
with a high in the upper
50s on Friday and mid
dle 60s on Saturday;
lows both nights near 401
degrees.
HIGH
LOW
1 ide table
THURSDAY, MARCH 3
12:14 a.m. 6:09 a.m.
.p.m. 6:22 p.m.
FRIDAY, MARCH 4
12:59 a.m. 7:11a.m.
1:17 p.m. 7:25 p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 5
2:03 a.m. 8:16 a.m.
2:23 p.m. 8:31p.m.
SUNDAY, MARCH 6
3:09 a.m. 9:20 a.m.
3:28 p.m. 9:37 p.m.
MONDAY, MARCH 7
4:11a.m. 10:20 a.m.
4:29 p.m. 10:27 p.m.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
5:08 a.m. 11:13 a.m.
5:24 p.m. 11:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
5:58 a.m. 12:00 a.m.
6:13 p.m. 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 -45;
Lockwood Folly Inlet, high -22, low -8.
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