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
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“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 :
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