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October 11,1995
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VOLUME 65/ NUMBER 7
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Sports
Whiteville’s new scissors
attack cuts Cougar winning
streak at three - Page 1C
Neighbors
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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