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Services will be held at
various sites throughout the
area Sunday morning -- 5B

Dosher
insures
future
Managed care
in partnership
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
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Dosher Memorial Hospital is
poised to jump into the managed care
health insurance business.
Within two months Dosher will be
a partner in an integrated health de
• livery system linking Coastal Caro
lina Health Alliance (CCHA) regional
hospitals and Acordia National Insur
ance Company based in Charleston,
wv.
Regional health care providers and >
1 Acordia will begin by forming a Pre
ferred Provider Organization (PPO)
to provide discounted health care ser
vice to its clients. While Health Main
tenance Organizations (HMOs) will
not pay for clients to use health care
S«* Dosher, page 9 v,,
By Jim Harper
Staff Writer
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Southeast Brunswick Sanitary Dis
. .. trict commissioners Monday deferred
' action on a Yaupon Beach request that
the town be given permission to spray
treated wastewater within district lim
its.
Chairman James W. Smith reported
that in discussions Yaupon Beach had
sought leave to spray on seven acres,
but in the written request the town
asked to spray on 22.06 acres.
Yaupon Beach bases its waste treat
ment in the district, off Fish Factory
See Yaupon, page 8
COASTAL WATCH

Beach strand
project awash
in paperwork
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Once thought to be on a
sure track for approval, a
project to stabilize the
Long Beach oceanfront
between 58th Street and
the area of 36th Street ap
pears to be in danger of
drowning in layers of bu
reaucracy.
“I wouldn’t call it dead,
but I wouldn’t call it really
alive either,” town man
ager Jerry Walters said.
Under terms of the
project, a spoil
depository on the
mainland side of the
Intracoastal
Waterway, used by
the corps, was to be
pumped out
Authorized under Sec
tion 204 of the federal Clean Water Act, the estimated $6-million
project was to renourish a mile of severely eroded Long Beach
oceanfront and taper another three-quarters of a mile from each
See Paperwork, page 9
Martin Marietta
By Tterry Pope
County Editor
The first legal battle
over Martin Marietta’s
proposed rock quarry
north of Southport will be
waged in Brunswick
County Superior Court
next week.
Attorneys for both sides
will enter court Friday,
April 12, to present argu
ments to Superior Court
judge William C. Gore Jr.
on whether Brunswick
County’s ordinance that
blocks deep-water mining
within five miles of Caro
lina Pbwer and Light Co. ’s
Martin Marietta
claims it has spent
more than $1.6
million to set up its
project and will seek
that amount in
damages from the
county if the
ordinance is not
overturned in court
Brunswick nuclear plant
and the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point ammunitions depot
is constitutional.
Martin Marietta has filed for a summary judgment which could
See Dispute, page 7
Solutions sought
School discipline
problem caused
by few students
Bj HoUy Edwards
Feature Editor V ■'
Principals and school board discipline committee members met this
week to discuss possible solutions to one of the school system’s most
pressing problems - unmanageable students.
“We need to put our heads together and find out what we can do to
- ensure that no one is allowed to keep teachers from teaching and stu
dents from learning,” declared school board member Pat Brown.
Board member Bud Thorsen, who also works with juveniles in the
court system, noted that repeated disruptions of the teaching process
is a violation of state law, and that juvenile petitions coujd be filed
against students who cannot be controlled.
“Before anything like that could go to court, we’d need documents
from the school that they have exhausted all other alternatives,”
Thorsen explained.
Other possible solutions to discipline problems suggested by prin
cipals included establishing a counseling center for unmanageable stu
dents, requiring parents to sit in the classroom with their child in lieu
See Problem, page 6
Weekend horse-a-thon
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'Hitching up' in Long Beach
A horseback wedding ceremony kicked off
the fifth annual Long Beach Horse-a-Thon
Saturday morning.
Rusty Gainey and Lori Fowler fulfilled their
dream of a horseback wedding at the beach
and held their nuptials at the Long Beach ca
bana. A small crowd of onlookers gathered
as the couple said their vows and leaned acrpss
their horses to kiss, then rode of into the... er,
west.
The horse-a-thon is an annual fund-raiser
for the Long Beach Volunteer Fire Department
and last year netted about $23,000 for the or
ganization. Volunteers were expected to final
ize the weekend total in a meeting Tuesday
night.
Over 560 hcrses and riders participated in
the event. Riders galloped through the surf,
sipped cocktails on the beach and enjoyed hot
dogs and riding competitions at the “point”
Saturday afternoon. The day concluded with
a dinner and dance for the riders at the VFW
Post in Long Beach.
Saturday remained overcast and dry, but
Sunday morning shgwers sent most riders
home early that day.
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Rusty Gainey and Lori Fowler kiss at the con
clusion of their horseback nuptials Saturday
morning at the Long Beach cabana. The bride
and groom took advantage of the annual Long
Beach Horse-a-Thon to fulfill their dream of a
horseback wedding on the beach.