West Brunswick’s Trojans, defending 3A state champs, were surprised Friday — 10B November 16,1994 VOLUME 64/ NUMBER 12 SOUTHPORT, N.C. 50 CENTS mm mm Our Town mm /'?<■ Yaupon Beach must prove its wastewater plant can handle the load -- Page 2 Hi — .. Wf ny ,f I iff, n M Neighbors »■■■.^ . An ‘A’ for art is the key to expected success this year at Southport Elementary - IB Bus-car collision Tuesday 24 students go to hospital By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Twenty-four South Brunswick Middle School students were taken to Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport Tuesday morning after a passenger car collided with their school bus at the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point intersection. Three of the students were taken to the hospital's emergency room by ambulance for treatment. They were brought to the hospital in satisfactory condition and all were released that day, hospital spokes person Margaret Minuth said. Eleven of the 41 young passengers on bus number 141 were brought to the hos pital by a second school bus, dispatched to the scene by school officials. Ten more student passengers asked to be taken to the hospital after arriving at school. N. C. State Highway Patrol troopers on the scene had not filed a report at the Wilmington station Tuesday and phone calls to them were not returned. Witnesses said the accident occurred when a Ford Escort driven southward on N. C. 133 entered the Sunny Point inter section just after 7:30 a.m. and collided with the bus at a point near its right rear axle. The driver of the car was pinned for nearly an hour before Southport emer gency volunteers using the "Jaws of Life" extraction device could free her. Ms. Minuth said the driver was admit ted to the hospital from its emergency room in good condition, but suffered or thopedic injuries. Assistant middle school principal Tom Simmons said he was at school when he received word of the accident. He and several other school personnel went to the scene as rescue personnel began treating students. School officials then began the task of notifying parents, first those taken by ambulance, then those taken by bus to the hospital. Willie Holland, 13, of Southport, suf fered bruises to his right leg, hip and chin. He said he watched as the oncoming car made its way into the side of the bus. "The car went up on two wheels and when it landed it went under the bus," Willie said. Upon impact, he said he heard "horrible screaming and crying" from his See Collision, page 6 Emergency crews worked for over an hour to free the driver of a compact car who struck school bus 141, bound for South Brunswick Middle School, Tuesday morning at the Sunny Point PJioto bj Jim Harper intersection. Twenty-four students and the driver were taken to Dosher Memorial Hospital. All but the automobile driver were treated and released. School employees share bounty $300,000 up for grabs if test scores improve By Holly Edwards Feature Editor A state-funded bonus pay program, designed to reward teachers, principals and administra tors for improved student performance, has been expanded to include non-certified school employees. Secretaries, maintenance workers, mechan ics and teacher assistants, among others em ployed by the Brunswick County school sys tem, will soon receive additional training or bonus pay as a reward for student improve ment. This comes thanks to a new state law that expands the differentiated pay program to school personnel who do not hold state certifi cations in education. These employees, known as non-certified or non-classified employees, may receive approxi mately two percent of their annual income as a reward for additional work they perform and for significant improvement in test scores at the schools in which they work. However, each school has designed its own plan for the allocation of differentiated pay. In some schools, both certified and non-certified employees use all of the state funding for training, while others use a combination of pay and training. In all schools that award bonuses, additional pay is contingent upon improved See Scores, page 13 Council pushing for ban Long Beach gets tough on pogeys By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Finding themselves more and more fre quently thrust into debate of regional and state issues, Long Beach Town Council members Tuesday night signed on to a new draft of a proposed agreement with men haden fishermen, offered comment to state officials drafting saltwater fishing license regulations and responded to a state Coastal Resources Commission proposal to alter erosion responses. The town has spearheaded efforts to regu late menhaden fishing off Brunswick County shores, first by rule of the state’s Marine Fisheries Commission and, failing that, by agreement between county beach towns and the fishermen themselves. By a 5-1 margin Monday night, town council approved a draft agreement which contains several key provisions not in earlier agreements the pogie fishermen have agreed to observe. (See related story, page 3.) Only councilman Horace Collier objected to the new draft of the agreement proposal. He said menhaden interests would never ac See Long Beach, page 13 IBS Wt utility fees stay samd By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor , There will be no increase in water sewer rates at Yaupon Beach for time being. Commissioners, on a 3-2 vote Mon day night, balked at a proposat to h administrative fees for both water sewer service in an attempt to rep] revenue lost to a state-imposed sewi moratorium. , Commissioners Joe Broyles and £ Kelly supported an immediate » in water and sewer rates. Commissioners Bill Smith, Davis' retirement plans are locked up Election of deputy Lt Ronald Hewed to succeed him, says sheriff Davis, is proof residents have regained confidence la tbe department x:,:x > x xx-. X. X: - ■ ■ X; . x xxx : xX.X-v x >x . x; .; 11-year veteran faced turbulent times at first By Terry Pope County Editor Top law enforcement officers aren’t always the product of selected candidates from fam ily trees filled with men in blue. , And they don't always build that frame work for allegiance, loyalty and integrity from within an inner fraternity of political buddies. When John Carr Davis was asked in Au gust, 1975, about becoming a sheriffs deputy he was employed by the Southport-Fort Fisher - ferry, as a deck hand and quartermaster. , He traveled back and forth across the Cape Fear River each day -- "no complicated job, to say the least," says Davis - parking cars and attending to the passengers in his patented and friendly manner. But sheriff Herman Strong steered Davis in another direction. The newcomer's only prior .. ..4. ' ' '.• " ‘ . ' police activity was in military shore patrol, and he would have a lot to learn. However, in quick time, Davis was promoted from his Leland-area deputy assignment to line ser geant, and then to chief deputy. By 1983, Davis was in charge of the uni form division, but all around him the Brun swick County Sheriffs Department was fall ing apart at the seams. The man who hired him was among those indicted in the Opera tion Gateway marijuana drug smuggling scheme. Strong was convicted of providing cover while bales of the Colombian-grown weed were imported by shrimp trawlers into Brunswick County and then shipped toother ' points across the United States. When picked from among eight candi dates by the Democratic Executive Commit tee to succeed Strong on June 28, 1983, Davis began the long road to recovery - though not for himself, but for the depart ment, the county and its shocked residents. History would write it as perhaps the most difficult period a sheriff has ever faced. "1 would think so," said Davis. "I guess the last six months of Herman's term, and the first year of my first term, was a turbulent time. I don't want to dwell on his situation; I don’t, want to bring all ofthat back up. It was just the uncertainty of what was going to happen. Then in the first year of my term, I think there was some lack of trust that people had in law enforcement in general. The first thing I did, my first job, was to go to the other state and federal agencies to develop a working relationship with them. And I did not do what the public wanted at first. They wanted everybody in the sheriffs department fired. 1 tfid not. Most of than were good law enforcement officersand good people. 1 think dud has been proven over the; See Davis, page ( V1 m 1 c. i :'SA

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