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BY DAWN ELLEN BOYD
lyooal veterans gathered at the
Veterans' Memorial at the
Brunswick County Government
Center in Bolivia Monday to dedicate
a plaque to the memory of 152 county
citizens who died while serving in the
urmed forces.
"We promise your names will
never be forgotten," Veterans' Service
Officer Jess Parker told a crowd
of approximately 100 persons.
U.S. Congressman Charles G. Rose
addressed the crowd, reminding
ttwn "No (oh In the U.S. A. other than
being a soldier or a sailor or an airDynamite
To Murder
BY SL'SAN USHER
A box of dynamite found Monday
beneath the Oak Island Bridge appears
to be connected to a Iceland
man captured Sunday In Arizona and
held in connection with the Oct. 28
slaying of a Wilmington man.
Officers are using photographs
taken Monday to trace the source of
the explosives - - possibly two cases of
dynamite stolen from bunkers near
1 eland earlier this year. Sheriff John
Carr Davis said.
Jeffrey Wayne Sullivan, 25, is being
held In the Coconino County Jail
in Flagstaff, Aril , on a fugitive warrant
pending extradictlon to Wilmington.
The Wilmington Police
Department plans to serve Sullivan
with a warrant charging him with
first-degree murder in the Oct 28
shooting death of Robert Douglas
Hurd.
Voters
BY DAWN ELLEN BOYD
Voters will decide Tuesday
whether to provide funding to
Brunswick Technical College for construction
of buildings needed to
locate all programs on one campus.
County chairmen of both major
political parties have endorsed the 88
million general obligation bond
referendum to finance construction
of classroom buildings and an
auditorium at the Supply main campus
Over s period of three veers the
battdiryt program would consolidate
programs scattered across three
campuses and provide room for die
Hate's youngest and one of the
fastest growing technical cottages
Since its inception. Brunswick
Technical College BTC) President
J<v darter said the cottege's enrollment
has tacreased at the rate of approximately
109 students per year
The bipartisan Bond Referendum
Task Force for Brum wilt Technical
College a group of private cttxtens, is
campaigning to insure the bond
issue's passage
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"!lSVfick Count" arc (frnm li?ft)
Day observances I^akes and Elo
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man requires risking losing your Ul
as the basic Job you do."
Col. Fredrick Meyers, commands
of Sunny Point Military Ocean Te
mina! near Southport, said, "Th
must not only be a commemoratio
of the past; it must be a pledge to til
future."
"Taps" was played, and the fia
was lowered to half mast as Ster
read the names on the honor roll.
Chris Chappeli, chairman of th
Brunswick County Board of Commi
alone rs, accepted U?e honor roll o
behalf of the county.
At the close of the ceremonj
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Hurd was shot at close range with
pistol ut the parking of Hardee
restaurant at l-ong !<eaf Mall !
Wilmington. The two were thought I
have argued over a woman both he
been seeing.
The Arizona Highway Patrol a
rested Sullivan Sunday afternoon at
rest stop where he was sleeping in
gold-colored Datsun 2SQZ.
In his automobile?which matche
the description of the car that m
seen fleeing the scene of tl
murder?Arizona officers four
sticks of dynamite and a numb*
homemade pipe bombs.
Brunswick County Sheriffs Dete
tive Douglas "Sonny" Padgett ha
coordinated a local search for t>
Datsun and Sullivan, at one poti
thought to be hiding in the Gree
Swamp. An all-points bulletin we
issued lor the car and also for a true
Will Deten
With an enrollment of 558 full aj
part-time degree program student
BTC operates two campuses ut tl
Supply area and one tn Southport
Eighty-eight Genera! Educati<
Development students seeking hi|
sciwol equivalencies, and 116 Adi
Baste Education students doit
make-up wort in grades one throui
etgM also attend classes on the car
pus
OR-campus curriculum coma
are offered at county high school
EnroUment for these courses, wtm
include photography, upholster
KMT training, and recertifiesU<
courses for pubhc school teachers.
5.M8 for the fall quarter
Except for one new building an U
Supply main campos. all facibhes u
ed by the school art problem-l?d?
lULili of other county agencies
BTC Preatdent Joe Carter said I
is afnud if the
doesnl improve it could lart BTC
chances at reaccrcdttaticn in 1M
AccmhUtMQ. an extensive evalu
Uoo process conducted by U
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uisa Caton of Bolivia.
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fe Eloutsc Caton of Bolivia and Shirley
I/)we of Boiling Spring lakes laid
wreaths at the base of the memorial.
:r Parker recognized Norman C.
r- Bellamy of Holden Beach for
Is building and donating the case which
ji houses the open-ended honor roll,
ic The plaque will hang in the public
assembly building at the goverment
g center.
n Veterans appeared to appreciate
the new honor roll. Willie E. Norton
ie of Supply, who served in the Army
5- for 22 years and was a prisoner of
n war in Germany during World War
II, said, "I think it's one of the nicest
things anyone could do."
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in Monday, while Sullivan was being
to held in Arizona, a man whom Sheriff
id John Carr Davis described as an
"associate" of Sullivan's led officers
r- to a pile of dynamite beneath the Oak
a Island Bridge
a Officers suspect the dynamite at
the bridge and that found in
d Sullivan's car come from the same
is source.
le Davis said the dynamite found
id Monday was "hidden about 50 yards
ir from one of the pillars of the bridge."
but were not net for detonation,
c- If the nearly 50 pounds?more than
d 125 sticks?of explosives had been
e detonated, he continued, the blast
it would have been sufficient to
? damage the foundation of the bridge,
is Davis said the "associate" he did
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BY SUSAN USHER
Parents o{ a Leland fifth-grader
killed when struck by a car last week
near her school appealed to the
Brunswick County Board of Education
Tuesday to improve safety conditions
along the Old Fayetteville
Road.
In a steamy hot and crowded conference
room, they vowed not to let
up on their efforts until a permanent
solution is found.
"We're not going to back off," John
and Shera Lynn Spivey said, as
perspiration glistened on the
forehead of a nearby television
cameraman.
"You can rest assured something
will be done," board member and
former Lincoln Primary' School Principal
James Ciemmons ioia them.
The Spiveys' 10-year-old daughter,
Michelle Lynn, was killed Nov. 6
when struck by a car while crossing
the road near the school on her way
home to Westover subdivision, less
than a mile away. Spivey said his
daughter had to cross the road both
to reach home and to obey traffic
laws that require pedestrians to walk
facing traffic.
While the accident did not occur on
or directly in front of school property,
it raised questions among school
officials and parents regarding pupil
safety. Bill Turner, special assistant
to the superintendent of schools, indicated
Tuesday: "It was one of
those sad things that wakes
everybody up."
Both I eland Middle School and
North Brunswick High School are
located on S.R. 1437 or the Old Fayelteville
Road near the U.S. 74-76 overpass.
"It's too late for us to get anything
done for Michelle," said the girl's
aunt, Joy Faulk, as she sought action
by the board Tuesday.
Superintendent Gene Yarbrough
told the Spiveys that the N.C. Department
of Transportation Is Investigating
the need for additional
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Traffic could begin flowing across
the new highrise bridge to Ocean Isle
Beach early next month
Ocean Isle Beach Police Chief
Jerry Gurganus told town commissioners
Monday that work on the
bridge was progressing smoothly and
that it should open the first week of
December?on target with predictions
made earlier this year.
At mid-summer project supervisor
Guy Myers had predicted traffic on
the bridge by December 1.
The 85.b-feet high-rise fixed span
structure will replace a draw span
built in 1926 and originally used on
U.S. 17 over the Chowan River near
Eden ton It has been in uae on SC.
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solidating all curriculum programs I
and administrative support services I
on a single campus
Carter said. "We were a new in- I
stltutioo and they went easier on us I
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that the board expects to announce
its actions in the wake of that investigation
at its December 12
meeting.
Roy Haskins of DOT's Division 3
engineering office is to make a field
survey and report the state's recommendations
to the school board.
Several years ago. Yarbrough
said. North Brunswick High School
had requested a flashing light in the
area, apparently to be told the school
system would have to bear the expense.
The lights weren't purchased.
School staff members, the
Brunswick County Sheriff's Department
and State Highway Patrol are
taking extra steps meanwhile to
assure students of safety in the area.
"We're concerned about all the
campuses, bui especially iiiai campus
now," Turner told The Beacon
earlier Tuesday after talking with
the school's principal, DOT auu Uic
sheriff's department.
Staff members are acting as temporary
crossing guards at the request
of Yarbrough; the sheriff's
department has agreed to to have a
deputy on hand when school lets out
whenever possible; and the State
Highway Patrol plans to patrol the
area with unmarked cars to
discourage high speed traffic.
"People haved asked why the
sheriff's department can't provide a
deputy at the school if we can provide
one for the movie set," said Sheriff
John Carr Davis. "But the deputy
that works for the movie set is offduty
ami the county is reimbursed by
the movie company."
With other responsibilities to tend
to, lie said, "We can try to have a
deputy there, but we can't guarantee
he could be there every day."
Hazardous Road?
Mrs. Splvey said students in the
neighborhood walk home from school
because of overcrowding on the
buses. The driver of Bus 39, from
Iceland, agreed buses there are overcrowded
In general.
However, bus seats haven't been
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way since 1958
It and the Holden Beach Bridge
drawbridge now being replaced were
labeled in 158.1 as "killer bridges" in
George Mair's Bridge Down: A True
Story. The book was about major
bridge disasters in the United States
and the general stale of repair of
bridges.
Construction of the replacement
?y. u. i/i^oii UI npill JJOl U> J.
I aw son Jones Construction Co. of
Clarksville, Va. The cost is an
estimated 15 76 million for the
85-mile span. It has a 34-feel wide
roadway, of which 24 feet are paved
Foot traffic and fishing will be allowed
on the bridge
A combination of 75% federal and
25% state funds financed the new
Building Pr<
the first time. Next time it will be a
different story."
A close look at BTC reveals that
similar problems, including substandard
facilities and Lack of space, ex
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does not provide funds for transporting
students who live within one mile
of a school unless the school system
can document that a hazardous situation
exists.
He said, "No one has ever told me a
hazard exists there."
Yarbrough and Turner said overcrowding
on bust's ia nuiac *ij uiv
South and West school districts than
in the North district. The state allows
standees on buses as long as they do
not go past a mark running behind
the driver's seat and across the width
of the bus.
Turner said the state will soon provide
the county six additional
buses?two the county will pay for
next year and four on temporary loan
or lease. None are scheduled to be
pusceu ill the North district. The
county must buy its new buses, which
the state then maintains and replaces
at approved levels.
School board member James
Clemmons, former principal of Lincoln
Primary School said he thought
1) the Spivey child had "no business"
on the road; 2) the schools should
provide transportation?ever, across
the road?or keep the children on
school grounds until they are picked
up by their parents?"even if it
means tripling the number of buses."
District 5's county commissioner,
Grace Beasley, whose son is in the
fifth-grade at Iceland Middle, added
her concern to that of the Spivey
family.
"Do whatever it takes," she urged,
"if it takes a light, a school crossing
guard. Whatever it takes, the parents
will support it."
She said students nine to 13 years
old are too young to take the responsibility
for crossing the road alone.
'They're going to play around," she
said.
She asked for investigation of traffic
concerns at all three schools and
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span.
Removal of the old bridge is part of
the firm's contract. Myers had said
the Ocean Isle Bridge would haVe to
be "cut up, piece by piece and shipped
to a junkyard or shipped out
wnoie by barge
"It'll cost a whole lot more to take
It down than it's worth," he said.
Up for sale now are "all materials
in the existing bridge," including used
wood plies, concrete piles, bridge
timbers, bridge steel, 40,000 cubic
yards of state approved fill material
and "other items too numerous to
mention."
Members of several local fishing
clubs had hoped to obtain the bridge
superstructure for sinking as an artificial
reef off of Shallotte Inlet.
Dgram
ist on ail three campuses.
Administrative Offices
College administrative offices are
located In the former county extern
ilon service office In Supply, where
overcrowding U a major problem, as
it is sr. the other two campuses
The facility houses offices of the
president, dean of instruction, public
information officer, Institutional
development officer, the bustneaa office
and all support personnel. The
office of continuing education had to
be moved Into a trailer attached to
the butlding suire there wasn't room
for it anywhere else.
Because of the lack of classroom
space at the main campus, evening
classes after, mast be held in the administrative
building board room.
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interagency programs for handicapped
rtnrVcO behind the admuastraBoo
balding Carter tsid, "The
trailers are oid ones the public
chock didn't want any more They
ire si poor condition and need mayor
rervyv itKmi They really need to be
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