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Results
Board of
Commissioners
District 1
(Democrat)
■ Don Warren 2838
□ Randy Stanley 2749
(Republican)
■ Douglas Simmons 1262
□ C. W. Hughes Jr. 840
District 2
(Democrat)
□ Bruce Quaintance 2209
■ Willie Fullwood Jr. 3308
(Republican)
■ David Sandifer (Unopposed)
District 3
(Democrat)
■ Wayland Vereen (Unopposed)
(Republican)
■ Leslie Collier (Unopposed)
District 4
(Democrat)
□ Tom B. Rabon Sr. 2764
■ JoAnn B. Simmons 2884
Simmons wins seat.
No Republicans filed.
District 5
(Democrat)
■ W. M. (Bill) Sue (unopposed)
(Republican)
■ David A. Bright Jr. 960
□ Roger L. Rogers 916
Board of
Education
District 1
(Democrat)
■ Olaf (Bud) Thorsen 2868
□ Harvey W. Gaskins 2350
(Republican)
■ Rozell Hewett (Unopposed)
District 2
(Democrat)
□ Clara S. Carter 1851
■ Joyce Parker Hewett 2352
□ Polly G. Russ 1534
(Republican)
■ Charlie Scearce III
(Unopposed)
District 3
(Democrat)
■ William D. (Billy) Carter 3431
□ Cora M. Croff 1822
(Republican)
■ Bob Hayes (Unopposed)
District 4
(Republican)
■ Pat Purvis Brown (unopposed)
Brown wins seat.
No Democrats filed.
District 5
(Democrat)
■ Glenda Browning (unop
posed)
(Republican)
■ Julia (Julea) Wood 831
□ Scott Bright 777
□ Ada J. Mullins 320
Register of Deeds
(Democrat)
■ Robert J. Robinson 2443
□ Raymond Carl Gilbert 1799
□ Bill Sisk 1593
(Republican)
■ Virgil F. Batten 1406
□ Yvonne Lewis Bright 752
Coroner
(Democrat)
■ Greg White (unopposed)
(Republican)
■ Charles A. Drew 1337
□ Franklin N. Eaddv 608
14th District
State House
(Democrat)
■ E. David Redwine 4251
■ Dewey Hill 3150
□ Joseph B. Carter 1805
(Republican)
■ Robert Quinn (unopposed)
■ Shirley Babson (unopposed)
Low voter turnout, but change made
Incumbent school chairman, commissioner lose primary
By Terry Pope
County Editor
County residents who voted in Tuesday’s primary ousted an
incumbent county commissioner and the school board chair
man.
JoAnn Bellamy Simmons of Ash defeated incumbent
District 4 commissioner Tom Rabon Sr. of Winnabow to win
that seat outright. No Republicans filed.
Also, school board chairman Clara Carter lost her reelection
bid when she was upset by Joyce Parker Hewett of Supply.
The surprise candidate also outdistanced former school board
member Polly Russ in the Democratic District 2 primary and
avoided a runoff by gaining 41 percent of the vote.
As predicted by Brunswick County Board of Elections
supervisor Lynda Britt, it was a low turnout at the polls
Tuesday with just 8,805 of a registered 37,465 persons voting.
It represents a 24-percent turnout, one of the lowest on record.
In the heated register of deeds race, incumbent Robert J.
Robinson captured 41.8 percent of the Democratic votes to
avoid a runoff against challengers Bill Sisk and Raymond
Gilbert.
Commissioners
In District 1, former commissioner Don Warren of Shallotte
won the Democratic nomination over Randy Stanley and will
face incumbent Republican Doug Simmons in the fall.
Simmons, of Calabash, was an easy winner over C. W.
Hughes Jr. of Shallotte Point. It will be a rematch between
Simmons and Warren in the fall.
In District 2, Democrat Willie Fullwood Jr. won the nomi
nation over Bruce Quaintance of Ocean Isle Beach. Fullwood
will face David Sandifer in November.
Newcomer David A. Bright Jr. of Leland won the
Republican nomination in District 5 over Roger L. Rogers.
Fullwood’s victory gives minorities a shot at gaining a seat
on the commission. Fullwood defeated Quaintance by captur
ing 59 percent of the vote. Quaintance had listed the most
expenditures of any candidate in the primary on his campaign
See Election, page 9
Photo by Jim Harper
The weight of government fell squarely on citizen
shoulders again Tuesday as voters turned out to
select tneir candidates for county, state and national
offices.
Bond notes sought
District sewer
plans proceed
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
In separate actions Monday morn
ing, Southeast Brunswick Sanitary
District commissioners asked the
state treasurer to allow the district
three more years to repay $350,000
in bond anticipation notes and autho
rized the sale of an additional
$350,000 worth of those notes.
Bond anticipation notes are short
term financial instruments sold by
local government entities to raise
capital for projects before permanent
financing is available. In the district’s
case, proceeds from the initial
$350,000 anticipation note sale were
used to pay engineering costs to date,
including payments to an engineer
ing consultant fired last year. Pro
The consulting
engineer says
Southport needs
additional flow to
defray the high
sewer costs city
customers pay
ceeds from the $350,000 sale autho
rized Monday will be used to pay the
district’s new engineering firm, W. K.
Dickson & Co., of Charlotte, which
See Sewer, page 8
wins 17
awards
The State Port Pilot was
presented the Metro Plus
Business Award that recog
nizes “best balance of en
tries” in the Community Di
vision, 3,500 to 10,000 cir
culation, Friday at the annual
North Carolina Press Asso
ciation advertising contest.
: This is the third consecu
tive year the Pilot has won
the most awards in its divi
sion. The 17 awards tied for
the most won in any commu
nity newspaper division at
the annual conference held in
Chapel Hill.
First-place awards in
cluded:
■ Best Retail Ad —
Lynne’s Hallmark Shop,
See Awards, page 10
New superintendent
Schools make
'Wise' choice
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
Associate superintendent for
Cumberland County schools Marion
Wise will assume leadership of the
Brunswick County school system
July 1.
Following a clandestine three
month search for a new superinten
dent, Brunswick County school board
members voted unanimously to hire
Wise during a special school board
meeting Thesday morning at the cen
tral office.
Board members also approved a
four-year contract with Wise in which
they agreed to supplement his state
salary with local funds sufficient to
See Choice, page 6
WISE
L100 vaccinations
Rabies spread
to east county
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Rabies has spread rapidly from Ash
to Leland, and the growing threat has
more and more pet owners concerned.
Approximately 1,100 rabies vacci
nations were given at four local vet
erinarian offices during a clinic spon
sored by the Brunswick County
Health Department on April 27. The
clinic was held just days before an
other rabies case was reported on
Lanvale Road near Leland.
That discovery shows the fatal dis
ease has moved eastward to cover the
entire county and places all pets not
vaccinated against the disease in dan
ger. It was the third case found in
1996, all within the past six weeks.
This time, it cost a dog its life.
“The dog was not up to date with
its rabies vaccine, having had a one
year vaccine back in 1990 and none
since,” said Jan Reichenbach, health
educator with the Brunswick County
Health Department. “Since this was
the case, the dog’s owner made the
decision that the dog would have to
be destroyed, which it was.” *
On Tuesday, April 30, the dog's
owner returned home from working
a second shift and noticed his six
year-old boxer was barking outside
and wouldn’t stop. The owner went
into the yard to investigate, and found
a raccoon was hiding inside the dog’s
house.
"The man called animal control,
and an officer went out at 12:40 a.m.
and captured the raccoon, took it back
to the shelter and put it down,” Ms.
Reichenbach said.
Following procedure, the raccoon’s
head then was sent to a state lab in
Raleigh for testing. The department
was notified the raccoon tested posi
See Rabies, page 8
Forecast
The extended forecast calls for
partly cloudy skies with temperatures
in the mid 80's and a chance of show
ers and thunderstorms.
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