VOLUME 63/ NUMBER 47SOUTHPORT, N.C. 50 CENTS
Our Town
Caswell Beach will decide
if cutting or removing
stumps is feasible - Page 2
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Brunswick Post 68 rallies
but falls in seven to Wil
mington Post 10 - Page 16
Forecast
The extended forecast calls for iso
lated thunderstorms throughout the
period, with highs ranging between
85 and 90 degrees and lows around
75 each evening
Pilot Line
Weather updates are available on
Pilot Line. Dial 457-5084, then ex
tension 191.
Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, JULY 21
7:20 a.m. 1 :20 a.m.
8:00 p.m. 1:26 p.m.
FRIDAY, JULY 22
8:15 a.m. 2:11a.m.
8:50 p.m. 2:17 p.m.
SATURDAY, JULY 23
9:06 a.m. 2:58 a.m.
9:36 p.m. 3:06 p.m.
SUNDAY, JULY 24
9:54 a.m. 3:43 a.m.
10:20 p.m. 3:52 p.m.
MONDAY, JULY 25
10:39 a.m. 4:26 a.m.
11:02 p.m. 4:37 p.m.
TUESDAY, JULY 26
11:23 a.m. 5:07 a.m.
11:43 p.m. 5:21p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
-a.m. 5:49 a.m.
12:07 p.m. 6:06 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.
Woman
drowns
at point
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
A Mebane woman drowned Saturday
morning as she played with her six-year
old son in shallow water near Lockwood
Folly Inlet.
Major Johnny Freeman of the Long
Beach Police Department said Tina Marie
Murray Burgess, 36, was pronounced dead
at 1:01 p.m. Sunday at UNC Hospitals in
Chapel Hill.
Long Beach police were notified an
individual had been pulled from waters
around the point at 10:07 a.m. Saturday.
Officer L. D. Lewis was first to arrive on
the scene at 10:12 and found Ms. Burgess
unconscious and lying on the sand about
1,000 yards from the end of West Beach
Drive. Her husband and a passerby had
begun to adm inister CPR, but were unable
to ventilate the woman, as her lungs were
filled with water.
Lewis took over administration of CPR
and was joined by Freeman.
"She never regained consciousness and
we could not get a pulse," Freeman said.
Long Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad
See Drowning, page 8
Whirling Ferris wheel... bright lights... music...
glitter... motion... excitement -• the stuff of dreams,
Photo by Jim Harper
it is all there nightly at Yaupon Beach’s Flagship
Arcade amusement center.
Funding debate to face
mediator, trial by jury?
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
The Brunswick County Board of Education rejected an $800,000
offer from the board of commissioners following an executive session
with its attorney Monday morning.
The boards will now settle their disagreement over school system
funding with the help of a court-appointed mediator or before a S uperior
Court jury.
The school board maintains it will need at least $1.3 million more
from the county just to continue operating the schools at their current
level. School board members had previously said they needed at least
$1.25 million to continue the schools’ current level of operations, but
See Funding, page 8
Your opinion...
• Is Brunswick County funding for
the school system sufficient at this time?
Dial 457-5084, extension 105.
• Would you be willing to fay higher
taxes so the school system’s request can
be funded? Dial 457*5084, extension
107.
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&Pilot Line
THE TALKING NEWSPAPER1
Long Beach
to pursue ban
on menhaden
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Long Beach council members Tuesday night rejected a plea
to go to the bargaining table with representatives of three men
haden fleets working area waters.
Councilmen said they will proceed with plans to petition the
state Marine Fisheries
Commission for severe
restrictions on men
haden fishing off the
beach strand during por
tions of the year.
A resolution seeking
restrictions will be
delivered to the Marine
Fisheries Commission
when it meets August
26. Council action came
on a motion of council
man Jeff Ensminger. An
earlier motion by coun
cilman Bill Easley to
meet with menhaden
operators and seek
resolution of disputed
practices failed on a 4-2
‘They’ve never really
been asked to be good
citizens before. You
make the invitation...
and I guarantee that
not only I, but all
three companies, will
be represented
Jerry Schill
Fisheries director
vote when only councilman Kevin Bell joined him.
Councilmen rejected an invitation to the bargaining table by
N. C. Fisheries executive director Jerry Schill, who said no one
See Long Beach, page 7
City to weigh
water storage,
supply options
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Any one of Southport's three options to bolster critically low drinking
water supplies appears about as good as the others, city aldermen were
told Thursday.
And, they heard, water storage capacity in the city is so low that
adequate flows could not be maintained to fight fires in some neighbor
hoods served by the city water system.
Consulting engineer Street Lee, of McKim and Creed Engineers P. A.,
told aldermen a present-worth analysis of three options to increase
drinking water supply and delivery problems showed each option viable
and nearly equal in cost.
Aldermen will meet in special session July 28 to review the water
supply options and to conduct a public hearing on them. A copy of the
McKim and Creed report is on file for inspection at City Hall.
The three options the city asked McKim and Creed to evaluate were:
•Construction of new wells in the city's delivery area and the
establishment of a central water treatment facility;
•Construction of additional wells with treatment capability at each
well site;
•Purchase of water from Brunswick County.
The present-worth analysis of these options by the engineers shows
See Water, page 8
Mayor: Budget 'sets course for future'
Long Beach studies benefit zones, wastewater treatment
By Richard Nubd
Municipal Editor
All the number-crunching is over for the year. All the chips, gouges and divots
have been extracted from the annual budget. So, what does the town's 1994-95
budget hold in store for the citizens of Long Beach?
This year wc have a very lean budget," mayor loan Altman said fins week.
"But within the framework of the budget there are many projects for the benefit
of the town."
The numbers themselves are a snap. The tax rate was set at 38 cents per $100
valuation, down from 41 cents in 1993-94. But who pays more and who pays less
is harder to say. Hie tax levy this year comes after Brunswick County completed its i
octennial revaluation of real property. Estimated value of all real property in Long !
Beach jumped $102.65 million in that one-year period to $465.19 million.
Therewill be no increases ttxlstyear inwater fees, town officials hope. Brunswick
County has indicated It will charge the town ten cents more per 1,000 gallons than
the town currently charges customers, but Long Beach has challenged the county to
justify its rate increase.Furthercomestof tire county ratehlke is always a possibility. '
"It's not anything sanctimonious, we're just trying to be good consumers," Altman
said.

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