July 26,1995 VOLUME 64/ NUMBER 48 SOUTHPORT, N.C. 60 CENTS Sports por Most sports are in section C, but this week’s top surfer dude is on ... Page 3B Neighbors It was 50 years ago, but this Southport resident remembers the bomb — IB Our Town Zoning of the Southeast Brunswick Sanitary District goes to hearing — Page 2 No lease, but floor plan filed City will rebuild structure on-site By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Although its lease on the Cape Fear River site is due to expire in 1998, Southport’s board of aldermen last week proceeded with adoption of a floor plan for Community Building replacement. Southport’s original Community Building -- built on Army-owned property at the east end of Fort Johnston as a USO center in 1941 — burned to the ground in January. City officials have received verbal assur ances from the Army a long-term lease of that property of up to 25 years would be offered the city upon expi ration of its present lease in April, 1998. The Army has committed noth ing to writing, however. City manager Rob Gandy said the city will now seek to win approval of the proposed Community Building floor plan from the state’s Historic Preservation Office. Jeff Adolphson, director of that agency, was present Wednesday when the plan was ad vanced. “The next step now is to put out requests for proposals for architec tural and engineering work with over sight from that office,” Gandy said Tuesday. Because the building is located in a federally recognized historic district and was listed on the National His toric Register, any replacement struc ture must be built substantially on the same footing as the historic structure. Internally, however, the floor plan may be changed, with the approval of the N. C. Historic Preservation Office. The sketch from which the board worked in adopting a floor plan pro posal for the building indicates a fairly wide open interior, much like the building that burned early this See Plan filed, page 10 : WATER OLYftiPICS ; •-'•-A x> 'v^ '£?'■$?% ’ ’ rt ■ ;-, Mayor Joan Altman was one of the (frequently all wet) judges at the Water Olympics celebration Saturday at the Long Beach Recreation Center. Photo by Jim Harper Youngsters got to splash themselves and everyone else within range in a splendid antidote to hot and humid weather. v . ■' Long Beach Stormwater control plan is proposed By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Although a five-member u aslewa ter and water quality citizens commit tee last week took a pass on making recommendations on sanitary sewer needs to Long Beach Town Council, it did, after six months of study, rec ommend Long Beach undertake a $6.5-million stormwater management project. The project is outlined in a "Water Quality Management Study" pre pared by consultants McKim and Creed Engineers, P.A. In addition to the initial multi-million-dollar cost of the project, the engineers estimate the “regional detention basin" stormwater management system will cost Long Beach about $300,000 annually to Engineering, administration and permitting fees are estimated to cost just under $1 million operate and maintain. The report indicates collection and treatment of stormwater runoff will enhance the quality of surface waters and will control stormwater compe tition with wastewater for drainage capacity in on-site septic systems. See Stormwater, page 10 Widely used, here Compromise on 'bed-in-fiir septic systems By Terry Pope County Editor Public pressure has persuaded state officials to reach a compromise over the use of bed-in-fill septic systems commonly usedalong the Brunswick Posher hospital $l.l-million capital budget is approved By Holly Edwards Feature Editor A $1.1-million capital ex penditures budget for fiscal year 1995-96 was unanimously approved Monday by the Dosher Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees. The board must approve the complete budget for next fis cal year by October 1. Included in the capital ex penditures budget is a $200,000 allocation to con struct an office building next Current operations funds and not tax dollars will be used to pay for the Boiling Spring Lakes physicians office and the physician to staff that office 10 me nospnai ror ur. Bract Hilaman, a gynecological specialist recently recruited by Dosher. Trustees emphasized, however, the hospital will own the building and lease payments made by Hilaman and future doctors will cover construction costs. “The doctor will pay the amortization on the building and we will own it,” said trustee Gene Tomlinson. Trustee .Gib Barbee also noted the capital expenditures are divided into three categories of urgency and they are funded on an as-needed < basis. “Just because we approve this doesn’t mean we’re locked into spend ing $1.1 million,” he said. “We’ll fund these things as we go.” In a related matter, the board unanimously adopted a resolution to use current operations monies and not tax dollars to pay for the Boil ing Spring Lakes physicians office and the physician to staff the of See Budget, page 13 Fewer report to Johnston School central office staff is 'reorganized' By Holly Edwards Feature Editor Reorganization of the Brunswick County school system central office staff will streamline the chain of au thority, enhance communication and effective decision-making among employees, eliminate duplication of duties and save nearly $200,000 in federal, state and local school fund ing, District 3 board of education member Billy Carter says. The school board approved the plan this week following a six-hour closed session to discuss personnel matters. The action brought the board one step closer to acting upon all of the recommendations of a performance audit of the school system conducted by the state auditor’s office earlier this year. But the board did not approve all of the organizational changes recom mended by the state auditor’s office, instead approving a separate reorga See Staff, page 10 hxcept Long peachy Bald Head Filing slow for town elections By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor With just over a week remaining in the period in which candidates for municipal offices may file notices of their candidacy, the hottest potential contests appear to be in Long Beach and on Bald Head Island. Long Beach, by Tuesday afternoon, still had not seen enough candidates file notices of intent to warrant a scheduled October 10 primary election. The purpose of that election is to narrow the field of candidates to two per available seat — one mayor and six members of town council. By late Tuesday, only two candidates - incumbent Joan P. Altman and Marvin Watson - had filed notice of their candidacy. While all six incumbent members of council have Bled notice of their intention to seek reelectidn, only three other candidates have filed notice they will oppose the incumbents. Long Beach will not need the scheduled primary elec tion if there is no third candidate for mayor or no more - , See Filing, page 10 CURRENT LIST OF CANDIDA ITS, PAGE 6 County coast. "For almost a year now, this county has been almost paralyzed by the State of North Carolina in that we've had almost a year go by with this held in question.” said Tom Pope, a Sun set Beach developer and member of the Brunswick County Board of Health. The agreement reached last week with the N. C. Department of Envi ronment, Health and Natural Re sources rewrites the state’s manual on See Septic, page 13 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 27 8:34 a.m. 2:32 a.m. 8:51p.m. 2:35 p.m. FRIDAY, JULY 28 9:13 a.m. 3:11a.m. 9:27 p.m. 3:15 p.m. SATURDAY, JULY 29 9:50 a.m. 3:48 a.m. 10:01 p.m. 3:55 p.m. SUNDAY, JULY 30 10:27 a.m. 4:24 a.m. 10:37 p.m. 4:36 p.m. MONDAY, JULY 31 » 118)7 a.m. 5:01 a.m. 11:15 p.m. 5:19p.m. TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 11:52 a.m. 5:41a.m. 11:59 p.m. 6:07 p.m. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2 -a.m. 6:25 a.m. 12:44 p.m. 7:00 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 Folly, high -22, low -8.

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