Sports South Brunswick contends for the league title, with a big game Friday night — 1C Neighbors Time and tide wait for no man, but Bald Head tries to slow them down some — IB . Our Town 1 A new mainland site for Bald Head operations is proposed upriver — Page 2 Sumy. Point transfer Fuel rods shipment: no problem By Terry Pope County Editor It came quietly and left in the same manner. The much-debated and controver sial final urgent-relief shipment of radioactive nuclear fuel rods was safely shipped through the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point facility This marked the last shipment under DOE’s one-time emergency relief program to accept stockpiled fuel elements just north of Southport last week. And few people noticed. The cargo of 99 fuel elements from foreign research reactors previously used in Switzerland (33) and Greece (66) arrived in three shielded trans portation packages aboard a French ship. Like the first shipment which passed through Sunny Point last fall, the rods were loaded onto rail cars and transported through Brunswick County to a holding facility in South Carolina. Thursday’s operation went smoothly and without incident, re ported Brunswick County emergency management coordinator Cecil Logan. A team of federal and state emergency officials oversaw the ship ment to make sure it complied with all Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Transportation, Inter national Atomic Eiiergy Agency and International Maritime Organization See Shipment, page 8 School salary plan proposed By Holly Edwards Feature Editor A proposed classification and pay plan for 450 classified employees of the Brunswick County school system will be explained in a school board work session Monday, October 30,2 p.m., at the central office. The plan will not take affect until approved by the board. Some employees would earn more money under the plan but no employ ees would experience a salary cut.. The financial impact on the school system will be explained Monday. The plan assigns employees to 57 newly defined classifications with pay scales reflecting state averages for similar positions. Currently, most classified employ ees are earning salaries at or near the bottom of the recommend pay scales, consultant G. C. Davis said in his re 1 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 >•<•»< . 4' ■? District Court 13 Business <»»•<>> 14 Obituaries.15 Plant Doctor ... 7B Church.m Pilot TV .......10B Grid contest.... 3C -t. port. “The best thing that can be said about the (current) pay plan is that it must be changed,” Davis said. “Nei ther managers nor rank-and-file em ployees seem to understand it and there are few published rules or pro cedures to guide management deci sions, much less employee under standing.” The plan also proposes a means by See Salary, page 8 WITCH WAY NOW? WHOA! Who is,that we’re seeing,jyvay up in the middle of the air? ItV the wickedold wiffch, of coiirse, smack iirthe middle ofthe Gator’s front yard on Highway 87. Perhaps she’ll be a bit late for her appoint Photo by Jim Harper ed rounds next Tuesday, and little witches, hobgoblins and ghosts will have the treat of doing her tricks. • . Hood Bldg, renovation The Dosher Memorial Hospital Volunteers’ Flea Market should be back in business at the Hood Build ing by July, 1996. Hospital trustees voted unanimously Monday to enter into contract with Port City Builders Inc. of Wilmington -- the same construction firm that re cently completed work on the new physician’s office in Boiling Spring Lakes — for the renovation and re pair of the fire-damaged See Renovation, page 6 Long-range planning session Critical thinking skills will be needed for jobs By Holly Edwards Feature Editor What will be the jobs of the future in Brunswick County and what can be done to prepare county residents to fill those positions? The question was the topic of dis cussion Thursday night at the Caro lina Power and Light Co. Visitors Center as the Brunswick County Long-Range Planning Committee held the fourth of six public meetings. Brunswick County commissioners formed the committee to study issues surrounding growth that lies ahead for Brunswick County. In the next 25 years, the county population is expected to in crease from 51,000 to 95,000 people. After receiving comments from the public through this series of meetings, the committee will present its report to county commissioners by the end of the year that will include a number of rec ommended steps to help the county deal with a rapid growth rate. A variety of concerns were ex pressed by county residents at the meeting last week, but one common theme emerged — the need for the county to improve the quality of edu cation offered in its schools in order to prepare future generations for the modern workforce. “Some employers have said they’ve hired high school graduates from Brunswick County that can’t read a ruler,” declared Economic De See Jobs, page 6 Forum on black issues: Community must pull together for its future By Holly Edwards Feature Editor Echoing the moral imperatives issued during the Million Man March, Brunswick County NAACP leaders last week called upon the local black community to lift itself out of complacency, reestablish the strengths of black American culture and pull to gether in the common purpose of saving future generations of black Americans from drugs, crime, poverty and illiteracy. About 100 people attended a community forum hosted by the NAACP Fnday night at Southport’s ILA Hall, and by the end of the evening many were signing volunteer reg istration forms to serve on community action commit tees in their neighborhoods. In a powerfully delivered keynote address, speaker Harvard Jennings, WAAV radio host and veteran politi cal activist, urged the audience to “start communicat ing, start loving and start cooperating.’’ ‘We must enlist the friendship of other races because it’s morally correct. No man is an island and neither is any race.’ Harvard Jennings Keynote speaker “Folks, it’s a spiritual problem here, we need to get recon nected,” Jennings declared. “We need to gather up the children and bring the ministers, the teachers, the lawyers, the police together to focus on what our children need. No one is going to do it for us; we have got to do it for ourselves.” Jennings told the gathering that problems of black Ameri cans must be viewed as “afflic tions” that can be healed rather than “intrinsic qualities of their being.” He also said that legislation is not the solution to these problems. “If I can legislate the solution to a problem, that legis lation can be repealed,” he said. “But what we do in our hearts and minds cannot be repealed. Let’s not go back, let’s go forward. We’re raising our children in a moral desert, and you cannot control human development in a See Future, page 8 Harvard Jennings was the keynote speaker at Friday’s community1 forum on black issues held in Southport : I elections

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