November 5,1997
I VOLUME 67/ NUMBER 11 SOUTHPORTN.C,
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Election results
Countywide 6,141, or 39.5 percent of
15,531 registered voters in 18 municipalities
and three other jurisdictions went to the polls
Tuesday to elect municipal leaders, commis
sioners of two sanitary districts and trustees
of Smithville Township’s hospital, Brunswick
County Board of Elections officials said.
All tallies are unofficial until canvassed
Thursday, but here is what the voters in some
of those towns, cities and districts said ;
Tuesday:
Bald Head Island *
Peter T. Taussig and Andrew J. (Andy)
Sayre, with 62 votes each, were apparently
elected to the Bald Head Island Village
Council to serve full four-year terms of .
office. With 79 votes, Kathlyn (Kitty) Henson
bested A. T. Hyde Jr.’s 17-vote total to fill an
unexpired portion of a term of office.
Unsuccessful candidates for full terms were:
George Hayworth, 22; William C. Taft, 20;
Jack Cox, 13; Wyman Yelton, 3. A mayor
will be chosen from among council members
seated in December.
Boiling Spring Lakes
With 187 votes, Thomas Tully led a field of
six candidates to apparently become mayor
of Boiling Spring Lakes. He will succeed
mayor Mark Stewart, who did not seek
reelection. New commissioners will be
Charles Schneiders with 235 votes and Jack
Redmond with 224 votes. Other candidate
totals in the mayoral race were: David C.
Gainvors II, 9;- Janice O. Harrison, 40;
Ronald L. Prince, 54; David P. Putnam, 115;
Tom Simmons, 160. Unsuccessful commis
sioner candidate and their vote totals were:
Juanita Akers, 166; Charles Bunten, 23;
Gerald K. Core, 76; Paul W. Toland, 185;
Patricia A. Walters, 141. In the election 562,
or 34.9 percent of the city’s 1,610 registered
voters, cast ballots.
Casw&l Beach
No changes in Caswell Beach. Incumbent
commissioners Paul O’Connor and Bill Boyd
were returned to office with 121 and 111
votes, respectively. Newcomer John
Verrecchia’s write-in campaign failed. All
write-in candidates attracted 56 votes.
Southport
Unchallenged in his bid for reelection,
mayor Bill Crowe attracted 433 votes city
wide. With 406 and 344 votes, respectively,
incumbent Ward I aldermen Paul Fisher and
Jim Brown will be returned to office. They
bested newcomer Paula Spelts, who captured
138 votes in the Ward I contest. Wayne
Hewett will be the new alderman from Ward
IL Hewett’s 191 votes bested incumbent
Ward II alderman Phil Joyner’s 172 votes.
Aleyah McKenzie-Muhammad drew 92 votes
in that race. Voter turnout in Southport was
just over 35 percent.
Southeast Brunswick
Sanitary District
No contest here. Incumbents James W.
(Bubba) Smith, Ginger Canady Harper and
Thomas Bowmer were returned to office
without challenge. Harper and Bowmer
received 18 votes each. Smith received 17.
Yaupon Beach
Top vote-getter in the town Tuesday was
Martin John Wozniak with 185 votes. He will
be seated on the board of commissioners in
December with incumbents William S. Smith
and mayor Dot Kelly, who captured 165 and
142 votes, respectively. Unsuccessful candi
dates for the board of commissioners were
David Durr with 129 votes and John Henry
Wolfe Jr. with 41 votes. A mayor will be seat
ed from among the membership of the board
of commissioners in December.
Dosher Board of Trustees
No surprises here either. All unopposed,
incumbents Gib Barbee and Charles Johnson
were returned for full terms with 1,936 and
1,645 votes, respectively. Ben Blake, with
1,983 votes, will fill out the unexpired por
tion of a term of office.
Locke is top vote-getter
Altman slate gets Long Beach nod
By Richard Nubel
News Editor
Unchallenged in her bid for election to a
fourth two-year term of office, Long
Beach mayor Joan P. Altman led five of
her six-member slate of candidates for
council seats to victory in Tuesday’s bal
loting.
But, the candidate garnering the most
votes among the council candidates
Tuesday was Jim Locke with 1,021 votes
unofficially. He was the only one of four
candidates endorsed t>y the registered
political action committee Long Beach
United For Progress to win election.
“f would credit it to one thing: I was
able to shake hands with a lot of people,”
Locke said while hosting a party of his
supporters at his home Tuesday night. “I
went into the community. I went to the
trailer parks -- to the areas some of the
others didn’t go -- and I talked to them. I
listened to them.”
In addition to Locke, incumbent coun
cilor Kevin Bell, with 954 votes unoffi
cially, and newcomer J. K Somers, with
931 votes unofficially, were apparently
elected to four-year terms of office.
Incumbent Mary Snead, with 924 unof
ficially, former commissioner Mike
Oxford with 900 votes unofficially and
incumbent councilor Horace Collier, with
895 votes unofficially, apparently were
elected to two-year terms of office.
As Long Beach returns in this election
year to electing councilors to four-year,
staggered terms of office, the top three
See Beach slate, page 7
Photo by Jim Harper
“We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull, and we flew the pretty colors of the
crossbones and the skull,” goes the Ballad of John Silver, but it was sloop-rigged and smartly sailed that mat
tered Saturday in the Stede Bonnet Regatta. More photos, and race results, in the “Neighbors” section.
Permit sought
ADM wants
to discharge
in Cape Fear
By Richard Nubel
News Editor
Archer Daniels Midland Company will seek a feder
al permit to discharge diluted gypsum into the Cape
Fear River from its Southport plant on East. Moore
Street.4
In an October 2 letter to the N. C. Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, ADM senior pro
ject engineer Randy Whitesides said ADM would
make application to pump a solution of diluted gyp
sum, a byproduct of the citric acid recovery process,
continuously into the Cape Fear River at a rate of
20,000 gallons per minute.
Gypsum is the white compound most commonly
See Discharge, page 6
Southeast area
EMS station
site reviewed
By Richard Nubel
News Editor
Response to medical emergencies in Southport-Oak
Island may be quicker now that Brunswick County
EMS has established a 24-hour-a-day presence in the
region.
Monday a county EMS crew and ambulance were sta
tioned at Southport Volunteer Rescue Squad headquar
ters. EMS director Tracy Jackson said the crew will be
headquartered in Southport on a temporary basis until a
new substation in the southeastern portion of the coun
See EMS site, page 7
Sacred Heart fills seniors’ needs
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By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
Five years ago, Sacred Heart Catholic Church
members began to discuss the growing need for
affordable senior housing in the Southport-Oak
Island area and ways the church could address
that need in the face of a major stumbling
block: No money.
“The question was, how can the church build
a senior hodsing community without the money
to do it? said Sacred Heart Senior Housing
Committee chairman Janet Huggins. “It was a
wonderful idea, but I couldn’t imagine how our
little church was going to,do it.”
On Thursday, November 6, at 2 p.m. the.
church will realize its dream when it celebrates
groundbreaking for construction of Sacred
Heart Vidas, a 44-unit, $2.7-million senior
housing community adjacent \o the church.
Construction is scheduled to begin later this
See Seniors, page 6
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