July 19,1995
50 CENTS
VOLUME 64/ NUMBER 47 SOUTHPORT, N.C.
Sports
Casey and his teammates
struck out in Legion play,
losing four straight — 1C
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Neighbors
A slice and a hook is all it
took to get this writer inter
ested in golf again - IB
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> Our Town I
Caswell has mixed feelings
about use of golf course for
wastewater site - Page 2
PARKER
CURTIN
Terminal
command
to change
Col. Donald Parker will assume
command of Military Ocean Termi
nal Sunny Point in a ceremony Fri
day, July 21, 9:30 a.m.
Parker will replace Col. Larry
Curtin during the ceremony hosted by
Brig. Gen. Boyd King, head of the
Military Traffic Management Com
mand.
Parker, 44, completed the U. S.
Army War College in July, 1994, and
served as chief of the Joint Strategic
Deployment Training Center at Fort
Eustis, VA.
His active duty career includes a
two-year tour as commander of the
24th Transportation Battalion in the
Persian Gulf War.
Parker's decorations include the
Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal,
Defense Meritorious Service Medal,
Meritorious Service Medal with three
Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Commen
dation Medal with three Oak Leaf
Clusters, Ranger Tab and Parachut
ists Badge.
Since his commission to the Army
in 1973, Parker has served as a train
ing officer at Fort Ord, CA, aide-de
camp to the deputy commanding gen
eral in Kaiserslautern, Germany, com
mander of the 329th Transportation
Company at Fort Eustis, chief of the
Program and Budget Division in
Nellington, Germany, executive of
ficer of the 68th Transportation Bat
talion in Fort Carson, CO, and assis
See Command, page 8
CAMPAIGN '95
Municipal
filing slow
Although the filing period for mu
nicipal candidacy opened July 7 there
still remain many positions in local
government for which no one has yet
tossed his hat in the ring.
In fact, filing was slow this week.
Those seeking election to munici
pal offices this November have until
noon, August 4, to file notice of can
didacy with county election officials.
“It’s all going to come at once,” said
See Municipal, page 6
Who’s running?
See page 6
Aspiring equestrians Meagan Clarke (front) and
Nichole Recko saddle and bridle their mare
Lightning without assistance after less than a week
of horseback riding lessons. The girls were among 14
Photo by Holly Edwards
Girl Scouts who earned their Horse Lovers’ Badge
last week at Joan Justice’s horse farm at the Mill
Creek community.
Workshop August 3
County, towns meet
on future of zoning
By Terry Pope
County Editor
When planning for growth, local
towns and county officials often adopt
separate strategies.
A countywide workshop August 3
will attempt to bring all 18 munici
palities, two sanitary districts and
county government together for a
brief peek at the year 2010.
“We will ask the question, ‘What
would you like the county to look like
in the year 2010?”’ said Judy Russell,
Brunswick County zoning adminis
trator.
From the answers will arise a stra
tegic plan in October to deal with the
main issues that county and town
leaders face. It may be the most ex
tensive planning session ever in
Brunswick County. As of Monday, 60
town and local officials had signed up
to attend.
The workshop is sponsored by the
Brunswick County Long-Range Plan
ning Committee, a seven-member
study panel which has adopted new
goals since it was appointed by county
commissioners last year. Members
are David Sandifer, chairman, from
Holden Beach; Suzanne Osborne,
See Zoning, page 8
'Executive^ summary'
Further beach
water studies
recommended
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Although consulting engineers, af
ter a six-month study of conditions
in Long Beach, outlined a “compre
hensive water quality control pro
gram” encompassing regional deten
tion basins for stormwater control and
a combination of on-site management
and central collection and treatment
for wastewater, a citizens committee
working with these professionals did
not recommend that program to town
council Tuesday night.
Instead, the Long Beach wastewa
ter and water quality committee of
fered several other recommendations
which amount to little more than ad
ditional study and monitoring. The
recommendations of the committee
are contained in an “executive sum
mary” of the Water Quality Manage
ment Study published by McKim &
Creed Engineers, P.A., subsequent to
its study of both surface water and
groundwater quality in Long Beach.
Only two “actions” are recom
mended in the executive summary
embraced by committee members
See Studies, page 8
Consensus
‘impossible’
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Consensus as to what waste
water management alternatives
are warranted was impossible to
reach among the five members
of the Long Beach wastewater
and water quality committee
after six months of study, com
mittee chairman Troy Davis told
town council Tuesday night.
The committee took a pass on
the issue of wastewater manage
ment, in effect sending that issue
— along with a 59 page engineer
ing report plus tables and charts -
- back to council. The commit
tee, which had conferred with
the engineering firm McKim and
Creed- Engineers, P.A., in an
analysis of atrrfac* water,
stormwater and wastewater
issues, did recommend addition*
See ‘Impossible’ page 7
Mosquitoes retain
bite despite spray
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Residents of Long Beach can best
assist in mosquito control efforts by
ridding their yards of any objects
that hold water, Brunswick County
mosquito control director Rick
Hickman told town council Tuesday
night.
Spraying insecticides is helpful,
he said, but only when mosquito
populations are out of control. He
said it is more effective to combat
mosquito infestation by sanitation
methods and by use of larvaecide in
known breeding areas.
The mosquito populations — there
are about 25 different species which
infest Oak Island — become most
bothersome when land is disturbed,
Hickman said, such as by land clear
ing for development or fire.
“Changes in environment create
the opportunity for new species to
move in,” Hickman said. “Until we
turn this wilderness into what we
Bill Campbell (left), who has worked nearly half his time on CP&L’s
Brunswick plant since he took over nuclear engineering, gets to work
there full time beginning September 1 as he replaces Roy Anderson in
the top Brunswick post
Campbell is named
Brunswick plant VP
By Jim Harper
Staff Writer
William R. Campbell, Carolina Power and Light Co.
vice-president for nuclear engineering, was named Tues
day to replace Roy Anderson as vice-president in charge
of the Brunswick nuclear plant.
Anderson, who led Brunswick from a shut-down and
troubled state to efficient operation and top rankings in a
recent inspection by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
will become vice-president in charge of CP&L non-nuclear
power production, working out of the Raleigh office.
The changeover at Brunswick will occur September 1.
Campbell, 44, came to CP&L as nuclear engineering
vice-president in August, 1993, from a plant manager’s
position with Union Electric Company in Missouri. He
commenced his work in electricity generation with Duke
Power Company in 1973, serving in Charlotte and in Sen
eca and Clover, SC.
As head of nuclear engineering Campbell estimated
Monday that he had spent “40 to 45 percent of my time
focused on Brunswick,” and Anderson credited him with
being “lead man for design changes to repair cracks in
the core shrouds.”
Under his and Anderson’s guidance, design engineer
ing functions were shifted from Raleigh headquarters to
the Brunswick site last summer, and programs including
See Campbell, page 6
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want it to be, there will be prob
lems.”
Hickman said the town did qualify
for 100-percent matching mosquito
control funds from the state and rec
ommended those funds, if secured,
be used to purchase mosquito lar
vaecide “donuts” to be distributed
and placed in standing water.
He said additional spraying of
insecticide, beyond that now done
by Brunswick County, would be
helpful, but costly. He estimated it
cost Brunswick County $600 each
, See Mosquito, page 7
Forecast
Summer months always bring the
chance of severe thunderstorms, as
we saw this past week. This pattern
will continue throughout the weekend
with temperatures ranging from 85 to
low 90's.
Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, JULY 20
2:58 a.m. 9:03 a.m.
3:34 p.m. 9:44 p.m.
FRIDAY, JULY 21
3:50 a.m. 9:56 a.m.
4:26 p.m. 10:41 p.m.
SATURDAY, JULY 22
4:44 a.m. 10:48 a.m.
5:17 p.m. 11:34 p.m.
SUNDAY, JULY 23
5:35 a.m. 11:38 a.m.
6:06 p.m. p.m.
MONDAY, JULY 24
6:25 a.m. 12:23 a.m.
6:51 p.m. 12:26 p.m.
TUESDAY, JULY 25
7:11a.m. 1:09 a.m.
7:34 p.m. 1:11p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26
7:54 a.m. 1:52 a.m.
8:14 p.m. 1:54 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; Lockwood FoUy, high -22, low -8.