Sports
South Brunswick’s girls
win regular season softball
crown in Waccamaw — 1C
Nelg|
It was a fun
for youngster;
as the end dra
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Sacred Hear
tap to Southpi
line on N.C. I
Sewer
Yaupon
engineer
is fired
By Richard Nubel
Municipal F.ditor
After three years of no progress
toward solving a wastewater disposal
dilemma. Yaupon Beach commission
ers Monday night opted to fire their
consulting engineering firm.
A contract between Yaupon Beach
and the Raleigh engineering firm
George Finch, Boney and Associates
P.A.. will be terminated when the en
gineers receive a letter of termination
from the town. Commissioners, after
a lengthy closed session Monday, di
rected town attorney James R.
Prevatte to draft that termination let
ter. George Finch. Boney and Asso
ciates is the successor firm to Boney
and Associates. P.A., formerly headed
bv Finley Boney. Boney recently sold
his interest in the firm to Finch, who
has changed the firm’s name.
Commissioner Bill Smith offered
the motion to end the town’s relation
ship with the engineering firm which
designed and oversaw construction of
See Yaupon, page 6
Health
director
chosen
By Terry Pope
( ounty F.ditor
New Brunswick County health di
rector Don Yttusey says measuring
one s level of achievement is the best
wav to improve as a department, so
he is big on charts and graphs.
Yousev began his first day on the
job Monday establishing goals he
wants his department to reach and
implementing a "report card" system
he says will make employees more
accountable to the public.
I want people telling me what they
don't like about the department.” said
Yousev. "It you always just hear the
yood things, then you don't know
where to improve."
lie attended his first Brunswick
County Board of Health meeting on
Monday. Yousev was coaxed last
month from Bladen County, where he
spent the last three years after retir
See Director, page 6
*»'#*#• ” X
Photo by Jim Harper
As ye sow so shall ye reap. Thus it was that the U. S. military last weekend helped cart away a projectile,
dragged up by a trawler, which presumably was placed into the ocean oil the Cape Fear bar by the military
(Army artillery) early in the century. The Marine Corps specialists said the 750-pound, 11-inch round was
of armor-piercing design, with no explosive inside. More information in the Waterfront column.
Water taps, Part II
Further county action proposed
T IVI I J 1
('ounly bditor
Last week’s county ordinance that requires manda
tory hook-ups to the countv water system is just one
step commissioners may take to make waiter service
more equitable tor all.
Public utilities director t ee Smith has recommended
an increase in point-of-service fees for the average
home from $451) to $700 Add the tap tee of $400 and
the typical property owner w ill likely pay $ 1,100 to
connect to 11u \Mein. wnicn is now mandated it a
home is ser.ed i county water line.
“Some |'c■( : l’ia assessed $300 years ago. and
some just l’i o iLM ssed $ 1,000," said Bill Browning ot
the Brunswuk < nnty Utility Operations Board "This
is an attempt it m wing in the right direction, to make
it equitable
A new tee iiedule will go to the Brunswick Oouniv
Board ol ( ci i aosioners for approval and mat be dis
cussed when t" board begins budget workshops later
set Water taps, page 6
Redwine bill
Southport
withdraws
tax support
By Richard INubel
Municipal f-'ditor
By a 4-2 vote Thursday night.
Southport aldermen withdrew the
city’s support of a state legislative
proposal to enact a one-percent
counts wide occupancy tax tor travel
and tourism promotion in Brunsw ick
Cou nty.
Board members objected to a pro
vision of Rep. I David Redwine's
proposed bill now before the General
Assembly, which would limit to five
percent the municipal occupancy tax
the city could levy.
House Bill S5d, in addition to es
tablishing a new one-percent
countywide occupancy tax to fund a
travel and tourtsm promotion bureau,
also consolidates into one piece of
legislation the occupancy taxing an
s horny ot all municipalities in
Brun.su ick ( '<’iintv
The travel and
tourism lobby will
insist that one-third
of any additional
occupaney tax be
designated for travel
and tourism
promotion
The action ot the hoard ot aider
men Thursday night means the city's
occupancy tax rate will remain at
three percent ha the \oreseeab\e In
lure. MB IS?T \x ith vs hieh the cits does
Set T.i\ support, page 5
County request
Board divided
on rescue fee
I?v Richard Nuhcl
Municip.il Klitoi
Aldermen appeared about esenls
^p111 Ihursdas nieht when asked it
rhes wanted to begin charging those
w ho are sere ed b\ the Southport Vol
unteer Rescue Squad.
\hsent consensus, the board tabled
the matter lor further discussion in
June
Members ot Southport's Volunteer
Rescue Squad can accept either eleci
sum to c barge patients or not to
charge them duel lorn I lorkicssic/
said Hut. Hrunsw ick (omits l iner
aencs Medical Sers ices Department
has asked eadl s ol tin leer rescue squad
m the counts to declare whether or
not it intends t.> charge patients That
declaration will help acotd double
billine ot patients . suits IMS direc
‘How do we handle
the people in the
middle who can't
pay or won't pay?
They've got to go to
the hospital, too.’
Nelson Adams
Ward II alderman
lor I rac\ Jackson has said
Counts J MS personnel and \olun ■
leer rescue squad members trequeulK
See Rescue fee, page ?
MORITZ
Production is uphill battle
It’s what we did this spring
Bv Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
Relaxing on a porch suing in a white I-shirt and thread-hare je.no Seal
Moritz doesn't fit the popular image'o! a big-time Hollywood producci
But Moritz just completed production of the mega-mo\ le 'Aolc.ino mb
is co-owner of Original F ilm, a commercial and music \ ideo production •>•••
pany in Los Angeles
He also is producer ol I Know What 'toil Did Last Summer llie im".ie
currently being filmed in Southport
Asked what a producer actually does. Moritz explains. "Being a pi Am e i
is like trying to take a huge hall and push it up a hifl while evervnne do o
trying to push it hack down It s a lug battle to get a movie made.
It s the producer s job to develop an idea lor a movie and then sell that
idea to a production company, he explained By the time a movie beams
production, Moritz said. the producer s |oh is nc uh complete
”1 Know What You Did Last Summer is based on a book In the same title
written by Lois Duncan Mont/ said he read the book as a teenager and has
never forgotten ;t
"'Movie ideas are instinctual toi me he said I go by what interests me
and not anybody else ’
The book and the mo\ ie desstibe an auto aceidenl in whiclt tom teens
believe they have killed a pedestrian, and then agtee to keep the incident a
secret. Each young person is then e'ortupled and haunted hv this seciet in a
different wav
"What I liked about the book w as e\ cr v bodv has maele a illistake in 111e that
they regret," Moritz saiel " I he book is like the kid s angle tow aiel a ps\ cho
logical thriller, and the mo\ ie has been upelatcel into a modern thriller
I he script for the mov ie w as w i men be New Hein nativ e Kee in W illlamson.
See Production, page 7
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Forecast
I’he extended forecast calls lot
partlx cloud\ skies Thursday through
Saturdax with highs in the 70s and
lows in the 50 s.
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