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BY SUSAN USHER
Owners o* a SsiivSa hcn^c
destroyed when a tractor-trailer
truck cau(iht un (Ire uikI ex|iluded
last Dec. 2S say they have been
unable to collect from the truckiiii!
company.
"They said the driver had a heart
attack and they wasn’t supposed to
pay anything,” Frank Harrell told
The Brunswick Beacon.
Early on Dec. 2C, 36-year-old I .iirry
Hall Whiteley was southbound on
U.S. 17 In a rig owned by Worsley
Transport Co. of Wilinlngtcn when,
two tulle?, south of Bolivia, the truck
suddenly ran off the highway, struck
a cuivert and then a utility pole. After
o.. in.im wiv culvert, the truck began
leakitig gas, which apparently Ig
nited wlicn liigh voltage power lines
fell from the utility pole.
Occu|Hints sleeping inside a nearby
two-story frtime home (led shortly
before the truck exploded, with the
(laincH enveloping the house. •
Whiteley died.
Tlic transport company found tem
porary accoiiunodations in a Wilm
ington motel for renters l/ossia Good
man and Iwr son, Kenneth, and
mother, l>clu Harrison, and bought
Uiom .some cloUiing.
At the time of the accident.
General Manager Richard Bass said
the Cuii'ipany would be working out a
settlement with the owners of the
house.
However, no settlement has been
forthcoming and after waiting, the
renters have signed a one-year lease
for other lodgings, said Harrell.
Last week, Harrell liad the lot
cleared of the last debris remaining
from the (ire. Monday evening he
watched workers set up a 1973
Skyline mobile home he had bought
with his own money and said, “It's a
long way from being right"
Rfiqg could no* ho
kkw a \>av**Vk,a AVS WIS**-
ment Tuesday.
College Trustees Tackle
3Y TERRY FOFE
Brunswick Technical College
trustees are slowly constructing a
new classroom building togctlu i.
At its monthly meeting la.st
Wednesday, the board tackled a few-
more problems and added a few
more details to the six-classruom
building now under construcUoii at
the Supply main campus. The
scheduled completion date i.s
November.
At an earlier meeting, the boiird
agreed to delete several details from
the building, including a greenhouse,
to meet its $462,500 budget.
BTC President Joseph Carter .said
last Wednesday the building itself
wiii cost that amount minus desks.
cmiir.s miii other nece.ssary equip
ment. '
Kiirnituro ami parking space must
be paid for out of other funds "unless
the bids come in under what is an-
ticiiKited," Carter .said.
Trustee W.A. “Bill” Stanley added,
"I hate to see a building be built out
there minus the desks, stoves, park
ing lots, llic tilings that arc
necessary.
"A building docs not function until
we can find tlic money to buy these
other things.”
The funds to build the new
classroom building were ap
propriated last year by the N.C.
General Assembly. The board must
await to see if additional funds will be
appropriated this year.
Appointments, Land Use
Plans CJp CRCs Agenda
Coastal Resources Commission
(CRC) members will consider three
Brunswick County nominees when
they make appointments this week to
the Coastal Resources Advisory
Council.
The CRC is meeting today (Thurs
day) and Friday at the Sheraton
Wrightsville Beach Hotel, with public
sessions beginning at 9:30 a.m. each
Holden Beach Mayor John Tandy,
CRAC member Rosetta Short from
Long Beach and Maynard Owens of
Shallotte are among nominees from
several municipalities along the
coast being considered for the coun
cil.
The CRC will also draft revisions of
the beach acce.ss rules and review
the final draft of Ocean Isle Beach’s
land use plan update. Sunset Beach’s
preliminary land use plan update will
also be considered.
Di.scussion on the use of porous
pavement In coastal development
projects and a proposed review of
coastal waters classifications arc
also scheduled, according to
spokesman Kathryn Henderson.
The porous pavement is one of the
methods developers are proposing to
meet standards for stomiwatcr con
trol..said_Henclci^qn.Jjhg_ added tjiat
the pavement allows water to’run
tlirough it rather tiian drain off into
the coastal waters. .
Other discu.ssion will include pro
posals to clarify marine marina stan
dards, wliich could allow a marina to
be built in an area that does not have
existing shellfish resources, said
llctiderson.
The CRC will also attempt lo
clarify existing rules for building
piers, and making piers exempt from
the permitting process if they’re used
for resid.entinl, .as opposed to com
mercial purposes, she said.
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The board also voted Wednesday to
pay Joe Johnson and Associates of
Wilmington $27,750 in architectural
fees for designing the building. The
fees represent six percent of the con
struction cost.
The trustees also agreed on the
brick that will be used for the ex
terior walls and approved a plan to
eliminate drainage problems on the
north side of the campus.
The N.C. Department of Natural
Resources and Community Develop
ment had threatened to fine the
school $150 a day (or alleged viola
tions in allowing a drainage ditch to
deposit into a nearby stream.
Jonnsun iolu iih; uiiatu WeuTiouay
that his office has developed a plan
that state officials agreed would
solve the drainage problems. No
fines will be imposed on the school,
he said.
The area under question will be
turned into a parking area with 274
spaces, he added. The U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers has also approv
ed of the school’s plan to construct a
30- to 40-foot restraining wall on the
north side of the campus to keep silt
out of the branch.
In other action last Wednesday, the
board hired lx)ri Barnhill as a com
puter technician instructor.
» The board also entered, into .a
' 20-minute executive session to
discuss personnel, but afterwards
took no action.
Members tabled a discussion on
the organization of a curriculum
committee that would make deci
sions on the additio.". or deletion of
programs from the school’s cur
riculum. They appeared uncertain as
to who should be asked to serve on
the committee. An existing commit
tee of faculty members now makes
recommendations concerning cur
riculum to the board of trustees for
approval.
MR. AND MM. FRANK HARRELL of BeUvia moved a to replace a rental home that was destroyed in a**freak"
used mobile home onto their lot along U.S. 17 Monday, highway accident three months ago.
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The deadline lor entering the
Brunswick County Extension
Homemakers Quilt Show '87 has been
extended to April 1.
Spokesman Katherine Shawver
said application forms were in
advertently left off brochures pro
moting the show. Forms are
available from all extension
Quilt Entries Now Due April
and/or judging, quilling demonstra
tions and a merchants’ mall. Near
the close of the event, a drawing will
be held for a blue and cream double
bed quilt made by county extension
club members.
from the Brunswick County
Agricultural Extension Office at the
county government complex in
Bolivia.
The show will be held Saturday,
April 4, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
Shallotte Middle School. It will
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