i pa October 11,1995 ; ,v .#£>^'i5&i$3SwV / Xv, v VOLUME 65/ NUMBER 7 SOUTHPORT, N.C. 50 CENTS £ i i. Sports Whiteville’s new scissors attack cuts Cougar winning streak at three - Page 1C Neighbors **" »■»'*"'ii.». ii ii nil,.i 'If i Fishing is not just for the anglers at the U. S. Open tourney in Southport - IB Our Town Long Beach will contest new water rates proposed by Brunswick County - Page 2 Long Beach primary election Results show blend of old, new By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor With 577 votes, incumbent town councilman Kevin Bell Tuesday led a primary field of 14 candidates for the right to go on to the general election in November. Turnout for the election was modest, with 1,089 ballots cast. The non-partisan primary election, first employed by Long Beach in 1985 to pare the number of candidates to two per contested seat, seemed to make little sense in 1995, as the newly imposed two-year council term set up an election in which only two of 14 candidates for six council seats would be eliminated. With the fewest votes in the field, David I. Buchman and JoAnn Lindsay Crosby were dealt out of the November elec tion. Each voter Tuesday was allowed six votes. With only two candidates eliminated, that bodes well for the top six finishers of Tuesday night. Assuming voters have made up their minds, there are few votes to be transferred from Buchman and Crosby to other candidates. Crosby cap tured only 184 votes, 14 more than Buchman. • Yet, only ten votes separated the sixth-place finisher from the seventh. The ninth-place finisher was only 26 votes away from the top six. So, there could be some changes in the order of finish come November. In order of finish (see chart) the top six vote-getters in the Tuesday primary election were: Bell, Helen C. Cashwell and incumbent Horace Collier who tied for second, Frances Allen and incumbents Jeffrie Ensminger and Danny C. Leonard. Of the incumbent commissioners, William D. (Bill) Easley III and R. Whitney (Bob) Boyd finished out of the top six at eighth and 11th places, respectively. Newcomer Doris Hertel finished seventh, failed 1993 may oral candidate Rupert Riley finished ninth. Luby G. Hollingsworth tenth and J.K. Somers 12th. The strong finish of Cashwell and Allen, who landed in the top six with four incumbents, is noteworthy. More than any other challengers these two were extraordinarily critical of the incumbent board. The 12 candidates emerging from Tuesday night’s contest will next meet November 7 in a general municipal election. The State Port Pilot will present profiles of all the candidates and summaries of their positions in its November 1 edition. PRIMARY RESULTS Kevin Bell 577 Helen Cashwell 520 Horace Collier 520 Frances Allen 476 Jeff Ensminger 468 Danny Leonard 467 Doris Hertel 457 BH1 Easley 450 Rupert Riley 441 Luby Hollingsworth 394 Bob Boyd 276 J. K. Somers 266 Jo Ann Crosby 184 David Buchman 168 *43,675 FISH The crew of the Eye Doc II were the lucky winners of the 1995 U. S. right) presented the crew with a check for $43,675 which will be split Open King Mackerel Tournament Sunday. Tournament chairman D. by (from left) Jimmy Bower, Don Roscoe, Doug Roscoe and Kevin V. Jones (right) and chamber president Don Hughes (second from Spivey (in rear). Friend Marvin Tripp joined in for the celebration. U.S. Open has 470 entries By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Nearly $65,000 was shipped north to Siler City this weekend as Don and Doug Roscoe and Don A. Owen, both of that city, took first and second place in the 1995 U. S. Open King Mackerel Tournament. Third place and $12,470 in winnings went to Supply physician Dr. Mushtaq H. Kahn, fishing aboard Mirage. Dr. Kahn weighed in a 38.2 pound king at 3:01 p.m. Saturday to capture the $5,000 third-place prize for biggest fish and an added $7,470 for his entry in the Open’s Tourna ment Within a Tournament. Fishing aboard Eye Doc II, the Roscoes weighed the winning 43.25 pound catch at 11:03 a.m. Saturday to capture $43,675 in cash winnings - - the top $25,000 prize and another $18,675 added to his winnings in the Tournament Within a Tournament, a 50-percent split of all $100 entries in that pool. Owen took his second place 38.7-pound catch aboard Absolut on Sat urday also, bringing it to the weigh station at 11:11 a.m. His second place winnings totaled $21,205 with $11,205 added from the TWT to his $10,000 See U. S. Open, page 8 eUlVirLklfc lUUKrNAMrLlN I KHMULd d, rAljH, 4<J Martin Marietta Mining suit goes to court By Terry Pope County Editor The court battle Martin Marietta Technologies Inc. is waging against Brunswick County and its anti-min ing ordinance is proceeding slowly in Superior Court. But it is headed for a courtroom showdown — likely in December. It’s been more than a year since the lawsuit was filed over use of the 1,000-acre tract where Martin Marietta wants to open a rock quarry north of Southport. A scheduling order recently signed by Superior Court judge Ronald Stephens will allow depositions to be taken by both sides starting this past See Mining, page 5 A ban on mining would make the tract off Bethel Church Road useless to the corporation which has a mining application pending before the state NCAE wants early release By Holly Edwards Feature Editor The Brunswick County Association of Educators has threatened to sue the board of education for reinstatement of student early release every Wednesday, claiming the board vio lated state law when it abolished the policy this year. But school board members effec tively put the lawsuit on hold Mon day night when they offered to work with local educators for a solution that would be acceptable to both sides. “We are eager and open to planning together,” declared school board chairman Clara Carter. “This is a working together and not an us-and them situation.” While educators say they need See NCAE, page 12 -i_J Forecast The extended forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers and Fall-like weather with highs each day in the mid 70's. INSIDE Opinion Health Business Obituaries Church news Plant Doctor TV schedule District Court ■■i&iilMitiiiiw 4 13 14 15 4B 5B 6B 4C 7C Mayor threatened with suit Bald Head renourishment permit involved By Jim Harper Staff Writer A scheme to drop a suit against the state, ob tain a beach protection permit and utilize pub lic funds to compensate the plaintiff has brought a threat of suit against Bald Head Island mayor Tom Bradshaw. The Bald Head Island Village Council held a closed session last Wednesday to discuss a let ter in which property owner -- and former is land developer - Walter R. Davis demanded that Bradshaw pay $ 100,000, which Davis said Bradshaw promised last March in a private ne gotiation to set the three-cornered scheme in motion. Shortly after that March meeting at Davis* house on Bald Head, the Coastal Resources Commission granted a variance permitting the village to place sand-filled tubes as groins on South Beach to hold renourishing sand in place. \ Relying on that permission^ the village voted last week to spend $324,000 for Longard tubes, for installation this winter. Davis said last week that he has agreed to drop his “takings” case against the state, though he has not yet dropped it because other conditions are still under negotiation. In Raleigh, Division of Coastal Management director Roger Schecter denied that there was any agreement with Davis, though he said that bids \n\ i:kiim i>. i'\t,i : settlement of the suit is still under negotia tion through the attorney general’s office. And on Bald Head Island Monday, village manager Alexis Jones, who was asked by the council last Wednesday “to research some points in the letter,” said Monday that there had been no further developments. Indications are that the council will again discuss the matter in closed session, as suggested by Bradshaw last week, in conjunction with the regular monthly council session on October 21. The affair was first made public during a special village council meeting last Wednes day when a spectator asked what was being See Threatened, page 11 ;V?f; ' BRADSHAW '

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