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AtSSQj&H B Volume 24 Number 37 ^Ljh! i//0 ' I , ^ iMiK ^ 7 L i v Prize- Wini "Sharkbuster" Ilonnle Cheers pose shark. II was one of nine lifters ( Shark Tournament. More shark I issue. Ressder Road In BY SUSAN USHER Another over-capacity crowd stood ready and waiting to complain to state Transportation Commissioner Tommy Pollard Monday night at u hearing <?r. tins year s secondary road program. The heailng was held in commissioners' chambers as part of their regular meeting. DOT proposes to spend $515,469 in the county, said Pollard?not nearly enough to meet the needs expressed Monday night by rural residents of Iceland, Exum and Ash, but more than the $444,000 spent last year. For every had road situation cited Monday night, DOT officials could name several more. "We are simply underfunded," Pollard said. Without mure funds, he added, "We're going to tiave these kind of meetings and these kind of crowds from here to eternity." For many in the audience, it was a repeat visit. IWiu S.nliK e ti too-. I.. ?-i said residents of the road have toeii "like a yo-yo" for the past 3i years, moved up and down the road priority list. Where once it stood third, it has dropped to 39th, .villi little chance of improvement since areas with rapid growth arp more likely to meet the criteria establislied by Hie state. "We have to put the dollars where the need is greatest." Pollard told tier. ( BRl f^Hg v- m p5#|sg8 i ^ ling Shark s with the uInner, n 523-pound tiger 'beers lauded during the Poor Buy nurnament coverage Is laslde this its Ask D spi UVCI i 1 The road was rated at the top of the list before the state adopted its current priority system, wliirh uses a point system for the number of houses and other structures on the road and the amount and type ot trntfic tt handles. Saying both Democrats and Republicans had promised the road would be blacktoppcd. Mrs. Smith added, "We're told the saine thing every year. "We do cvcrylliing everyone tells us to do. What we want to know tonight is what we can do to get our road paved." Stabilization of 'he road with rock - with a promise oi paving to follow lias caused more problems, alio said. It creates a dust cloud that's a health threat to several residents with lung conditions. lint DOT officials only had two or three alternatives property owners sharing the cost of the paving or getting the General Assembly to provide more money. Residents of Hluc Ranks Ixxtp Road in the northwestern section of the county said their road went from washboard to washout status in less than an hour during Moriduv evening's rainstorm. One inun Mild lie rami w/m too iliinto-rnim for llio four school buses Mint serve children who live on the rood. Jim Cook, tiie new district engineer for Brunswick mid New Hanover ?& H JTB IMSWI sHsl ?53 Ks ISg | Shcillollo, North Carolina, OCEAN ISLE DECLARi Record! Call For BY SUSAN USHER Record amounts of water arc being Folly Klvcr, according to Count) Water System Director Kenneth Hewett. straining the ability of both the county and local municipalities to meet the demand. "The demand is approximately TO percent more Hum we had last year in this area." he said Tuesday. "We're pumping the maximum the lines and pumping stations in that area can carry." However, the situation isn't so critical that customers are being asked to take four-minute showers. Monday Hewett asked all county watcr customers, from Southport to Calabash, to voluntarily conserve water in a radio announcement aired on locar stations. At noon Monday, Ocean isle Reach Mayor I .a Dane Hullington declared a water emergency in tlvnt bearii community and ordered mandatory conservation. She invoked an ordinance adopted by town commissioners several years ago that allows the mayor and/or water commissioner to declare such an emergency. The order makes it against the law to wash vehicles, water la was or use town water for purposes Hum normal in-home use. Flyers to that effect were being distributed Monday afternoon io businesses in town. Id its message, the county requests customers to voluntarily conserve as much water ns possible because "the tifiusuaUy high demand and low .supply" are foi ling the system to operate at pcuk capacity with little or no reserves. "Further demands will require Motions Oi MY MARJORIE MEG1VERN A motion to strike tlie death penalty from consideration in the coming murder trial of Thomas Long was denied Monday by Judge Giles Clark in Brunswick County Superior Court. In a pre-trial hearing, l-ong's attorney William Shell began introducing about 35 motions on belmlf of the OT For 'W n K u ents County, said n survey crew would be on the rood next week in the first step toward more permanent stabilization of the road, n project that will depend on the willingness of property owners to provide the state right-of-way. A former county commissioner, Pearly Vereen of Rxuin, asked for stabilization with rock or marl of the eight-mile Makatoka Road from Kxum and little Prong to Supply. "It cuts 12 miles off," he said of the trip to Brunswick Hospital in Supply. "We'll certainly look into it," I'lltlsiril I..1/1 him According to the transportation commissioner, the highway program has been underfunded for at least 15 years, and the (ieneral Assembly's allocation this year was not enough. Hep. David Kcdwine, at the meeting to report on the legislature's summer session to the couunissloaers, defended the appropriation, saying it provides at least $132 million more in funds next yenr and still more in future years. While lint allowing for program expaasion, Polla J ?sid this year's allocation is enough to make items included in the department's trnasportatlon iinprovement plan realistic, rather tlum mere "political "This Ls a In.ginning," lie said, urging commissioners to lobby during (Sec IIOADS, Page 2-A| I Thursday, July 24, 1986 ES EMERGENCY Demand Water C mandatory conservation," warned llcwctt. At Sunset Beach, the town was strongly encouraging voluntary conservation by residents, but not requiring it. Administrator t.inda Fluegel said the town fire department was considering taking a Inick street to street and announcing the move Monday evening by loudspeaker. The county is pumping four of seven wells in the field it owns at Sunset Beach, she noted. In both beach towns, police officers on their rounds were asking residents seen watering lawns or washing cars to put away their hoses. At Ocean Isle Monday afternoon the town was pumping water from nine of its own wells, trying to meet a daily demand of 600,000 to 700,000 Comoro Tab At Holden E A strange sight met Patrolman police when he was called to inve Street about 6:30 p.m. Saturday. "A 1985 black Camaro was sittir said. William 1 .ester Eades o. the Holi was 45 iuph in a 25 zone, according ti make that 90 degree curve at the ct tiki resuV. was u stilt walei ( estimated suffered $8,000 in damag Eodes, who was not injured, ? paiied and resisting arrest. n Long Murdt 52-year-old lxdand man charged with the March 25 murder of his estranged wife, Annette, and the shooting of former county commissioner Franky Thomas. Also denied was a motion to allow separate juries to rule on l.ong's guilt or innocence .tad on his sentence. Clark allowed one motion in part. Shell requested the jury pool for the trial be increased from the customary 75 to 200. "This case has attracted so much publicity, because this mail is lint imlv f*hnriu?l .vifI. murdering liis wife, hut of .shocking a former commission chairman," Shell explained. "1 want to have plenty of prospective jurors so we don't get in a position of being pressured to accept some la-cause we're about to 60% WOULD GO T /"V*. v^uufffy Hear BY SUSAN USIIEI Adding an nplinnnl half-rent to could provide n chunk of tlie ntnne; school construction But before votii Brunswick County CoiuinLssioncrs \ the buying and voting public luts to Monday night, on District 4 Com a "ii'ui'ii, nicy .-in a puuuc ne Aug. 19, at 7 p.m. nt the county corn "We need lo go ahead and net the pie," he said after the board had dL< and momentarily let it drop. Earlier, Hoard of Education Cli sncr told commissioners, "From our schools would like to see it impleme possible." I le added to I lislrrct !t Cotnmissic the additional revenue gained over c time wasn't worth rushing for. I'oolc luid suggested there was ' rug rush mum e the county's budget If the tax were adopted there wt ths* delay before it could begin colli the ear liest time around Octoticr-No DCnvV 25c Per Copy Prompts bnserva gallons of water. "Yesterday I'll l>et we used 750,000 gallons," Wale Commissioner Odell Williamson said Tuesday. Of that, the county was supplying only nl>out 150.000 to 200,000 gallons, he estimated. Williamson said he was glad the town had not shut down its wells as the county I tad first proposed when Ocean Isle became a county water customer. To meet uie iuwn's summer needs, he said, "We've been buying all we could from them (the county) the past two months. Hut they haven't had any to sell." Monday's thunderstorm helped, he said, hy washing dust off cars and coining temperatures so that people could #?ct outdoors. "People are wasting a lot of water washing cars and the like," he said. "And when it's :es Swim I each George Atkins of the Holder* Beach stigate an nccident at High Point lg 100 feet out in the waterway," he Jen Beac i area was driving the car, ch to drink," Atkins said. His speed 3 Atkins. "He didn't even attempt to reel, but Just went straight ahead." funking for the car, which Atkins PS. as cnargeu wiui driving wrnie unTrial Hearc run out." The judge ruled u pool of 175 jurors would be sununoncd. lie also sym> pathized with a motion to submit the list of these names to Shell at least 30 days in advance of the beginning of the trial, i think that's a reasonable time to do background studies on them, hut the problem is we don't know when the trial will i>e scheduled," Clark said. District Attorney Michael Kasley, who will prosecute the case, said he was not sure whether the trial would be called for the next superior court session starting September 2. or held In a special session. Shell said he September date. The motion regarding the 30-day <3 SCHOOLS 'Soles Tc g Set Au \ If it were adup Dip I oral sales tux would go to !i percc y needed for local state, 1 percent is rig on its adoption, the basis of where t ,vant to hear wliat distributed locally wiy. tion. missioner Krankie Sixty percent < Bring for Tuesday, must be used to m plex in llolivin. struction. Over a ' opinion of the pco- would steadily riroj cussed the matter at the county's disr cent sales tax, 40 luirmun Jim Fort- schools. ' point of view, the nted as quickly as Ucp. David legislature hoped mer Jim Poole that than substitute futi me or two mouths' tion with the mono While he object 'no need to lie in a Commissioner Ben is adopted. vole tor the tax if ?uld be a two .'sum- jecls. noting tax, putting "1 see the need vcmber. Ludlum. I &Bv i 28 Pages ; County 9 Hon so hot they stay inside the house. That causes them to use more water." v/vcmii, in- ssuu, inv iowii s in goon shape, especially considering its time for dog days, the name given to the summer period of heavy rainfall. At llolden Beach, Administrator Bob Buck said the town had not been asked to adopt vonsei cation measures yet. However, he added. We have asked Holden Beach Enterprises to water its grass on a different schedule." Buck said the company is now watering very early in llie morning at its west-end development. Sliallotte has not asked its water customers to conserve, but is "on the borderline," according to Superintendent Albert Hughc-s. "If we don't get some rain in the next few days, tliat could change any lime," he said. Since last Thursday, at the county's request, the town has been running its two wells, providing all or nearly all of its water supply. According to Hcwctt, voluntary conservation efforts paid off almost muut-uinit'iY .wonuav. uv r? p.m., ne said, the amount of water available from the Oak Grove pumping station on N.C. 130. below Holden Beach, had increased eight percent, by 100 gallons per minute. "If everybody on the system noes the same," he said, "we'd be in excellent shape." By voluntary conservation, llewett means puttnui oft vaitfinni! lawns washing the car and washing the dog - "all unessential water use," he said, adding with a laugh. We're not (See RECORD, Page 2-Al 1 By Judge provision was postponed a few days until scheduling is definite. Shell withdrew a motion reauestine the voting records of potential Jurors after Easley said his office did not Rather that information. Only a half-do/.en motions wore heard, with the rest postponed either for the trial judge or for Wednesday's session l.ong has been in custody in Brunswick County jail without bond since his arrest after the shooting March 23. Mrs. l ong died shortly after the II: III p.m. shooting with a .357-caliher Magnum, and Thomas was treated at New Hanover Memorial Hospital for a shoulder wound. I? IA I nrvcr gus/ / 9 led, sides tax charged in the county in. '-*! uiai, uirec percent goes to uic distributed to local governments oil ho tax was collected and t percent is on the basis of permanent populn)f the county's share of the new lax it-et the capital neeiLs of school conperiod of 11 years tluit percentage ) until the full amount could be spent . retion. Of the last local-option halfpercent had to bo set aside for the ltedwine told commissioners the counties would supplement rather ire local funding of school construct ed to Uie last luilf-cent tax. District 2 inv I .Milium said Monday he would it were earmarked for specific proin the schools and elsewhere," said
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