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
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WATER OLYftiPICS
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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.