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I n\A/mari ("! f V IV I V Canine To Bite On Ci BY RAHN ADAMS The newest addition to the Brunswick County Sheriff's Department's "canine corps" may not be a purebred but he is definitely a champion?of crime prevention, that is. Although opposition surfnroH 1nc? fall to the department's plans to use a drug-detecting dog in local schools for the first time, this second "dog '?on the job now for over a month?has enjoyed a much more positive reception. "You call, and we'll haul and he there with the dog," Crime Prevention Officer Don Gates assured the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation Women's Committee last Wednesday morning, after he introduced them to "McGruff the Crime Dog," a puppet which is being used in Gates' crime prevention programs for children. The sheriffs department bought the three-foot-tall "bloodhound" in early April from a puppet manufacturer in San Diego, Calif. The $300 used to buy McGruff and related materials was taken from drug forfeiture funds that the department received earlier this year. But according to Gates, McGruff won't be concentrating hie offnr?= m. lv on drug awareness. Other crime Local Teen-/ A Supply teen-ager was listed in serious condition Tuesday at an area hospital after being struck by a car early Saturday near Shallotte. According to Highway Patrol spokesperson Ruby Oakley, the accident occurred Saturday at 12:34 a.m., 2.7 miles north of Shallotte on Cumbee Road, when Jonathan Gore Clemmons, 18, was hit by a 1981 Buick driven by Michael Lee Nelson, 16, also of Supply. Clemmons was taken by rescue squad ambulance to The Brunswick BCC Seeks Fed' Funds For Endo Brunswick Community College is applying for a federal endowment challenge grant of up to $100,000. If awarded, the school would have 18 months in which to raise an equal sum of matching money for its en dowment fund, working through the Brunswick Community College Foundation. Annie Marie Schettini, BCC's public information officer, said the college won't know for three to six months if it will receive the grant, j Applications for the grants?which ranged from $50,1)00 to $250,000 in 1987?are reviewed and assigned points on the basis of several criteria, including the percentage of students who receive need-based financial aid. Brunswick Community College meets the basic qualifications for the grant program since it is an accredited two-year institution that has at least 50 percent of its degree students receiving such financial assistance. Also, BCC has a low I HOME I BARB SERVl I" SHALLGTTE RESCUE Saturday, May Plates, vvith all the at the rescue s H We'll delive 5 plates We volunteere please help us ?et SbCumu Put The "ime prevention programs on cassette tapes involve "stranger danger," traffic safety, latch-key children and child molestation. He added that the puppet programs are geared toward children in If inHnrnorJan it. uvigaivcii vmuugll UIC IUUIUI grade. Before school ends next month, the puppet will appear at Shallotte Middle School and Leland Middle School. Gates unveiled McGruff on May 11 at Leland's Lincoln Primary School. "It was fantastic." Gates said. "The kids accept him as being a real, hcncst-tc-gcodness, talking dog. After the program was over, they all wanted to hug him and pet him." According to Gates, that type of aeceptance enables him to communicate more easily with youngsters. "It gets the information to the children much easier," he said. "They remember it better." McGruff's job doesn't end there. Last month he came to the aid of another member of the local sheriff's department. Gates said Detective Nancy Simpson, who investigates child abuse cases, used the puppet to interview a youngster who had been molested. 'Thn nWW nnonA/I nn *? 41 V.IU1U uucn&u uil I11U1 C LU UIC puppet than to the adults," he noted. \ger Hurt InV Hospital in Supply before being transferred to New Hanover Memorial Hospital in Wilmington for further treatment. Mc Qajrloy ooiH Molonn uioc trouol. ing east on Cumbee Road when he rounded a curve and encountered two stopped vehicles?one on the right shoulder of the road and the other in the left travel lane. Clemmons was struck when he stepped from the vehicle on the left into the path of Nelson's car. Nelson told Trooper Gerald Williams that eral Matching wment Program average expenditure per full-time equivalent student. Endowment funds from the matching grant are monies that must be invested, with the restriction that the principal and 50 percent of the income may not be spent for 20 years. According to David Batten, president of the BCC Foundation, "This federal matching funds program presents a definite challenge to the institution ... Through the leadership of the Brunswick Community College Foundation and with the support of the entire community, we will meet this challenge full-force if this grant is awarded." AT WIUHARAW BRING HOME THtfeBEACON On Sale At WINNABOW MINI-MART MADE I IECUE I ED BY I VOLUNTEER S SQUAD OO *1 ^ zx>, i I am until ; trimmings, $3.50 squad building ;r orders of or more! id to help you, f i ij ^nl Ub > ^EJr /, a CRIME PREVENTION OFFICER Do Crime Dog" to members of the Brunsv tion Women's Committee last Wednesda ing used in Gates' crime prevention pro Veekend Traff the headlights on Clemmons' vehicle obstructed his vision. t No charges were fiied in the acci- r dent. Damage to Nelson's car was t estimated at $400. > In another traffic mishap last " week, a Supply teen-ager suffered moderate injuries in a one-car wreck s Friday near Supply. I" Ms. Oakley said the accident hap- i> pened Friday at 10:30 a.m., four miles south of Supply on Civietown v RnnH ? Mar/ M ho j "REPOSSESSION S I Have a safe i | Memorial Day vsassssssssssssssi SERVICE CO* We can now MOBILE HOME REPA DECKS UNDERPlNNIh INSURANCE "YOUR PROBLEM 754-7097 HWY. 17 I We have th< the summer! Get three m The Disney Channel The Disney Channel sizzles this hot, you'll find it hard to refuse Call today and sign up for The [ three months for one low price! because The Disney Channel is in one...with quality programmi familvAnrt fr-vr \>r-?i i Pnll nr\w y M? ?*_r? JUU. V-ml I ATLANTIC TELEPHO! il'J Tluv?>?? America's I? IT* \L?R lhtnr> t ikt^wy ppgfll .l.UV.V .vw lUiJ ? STAFF PHOTO BY RAHM ADAMS n Gates introduces "McGruff the rick Electric Membership Corporay inShailotte. The new puppet is beigrams for children. ic Accident Rodney Wayne Suggs, 19, ran off he left side of the road in his 1980 rord ana struck a ditch bank. He told he investigating trooper that his chicle's steering mechanism nalfunctioned, Ms. Oakley noted. The teen-ager was taken by rescue quad ambulance to The Brunswick iospital for treatment of nonicapacitating injuries. He was charged with a seat belt iolation. Damage to his car was stimated at $1,200. r Ws ALES CENTER" and happy | Weekend! I vv ^SUITING* do your: IRS KOOL SEAL | \G PUMP HOUSESs : WORK A SOLVERS" N. SHALLOTTE \ 9I s cure for time blues. onthsof for one low price. summer with a deal so )isney Channel and get That's some greai value, like getting three channels ing for the kids, the whole ?E MEMB. CORP. nep> Channel until) Network'. THE BRUNSWICK BEACON, Four Senfc In Rape G Four Shallotte area men, who initially faced rape charges, pleaded P guilty last week to crime against P nature counts stemming Irom a sex- T ual assault in January. Three of the four received active prison ti sentences. ft Willie Earl Johnson, 18, of Route 4, d' Shallotte; Terry McCray, 18, and di David Lee McCray, 24, both of Route C1 1, Shallotte; and Frankie Pickett, 16, d of Route 1, Ash, each entered guilty a pleas last Thursday in Brunswick County Superior Court to one count of E crime against nature, according to ft the clerk of court's office. J Judge Giles R. Clark sentenced F both Johnson and Terry McCray to e six-year prison terms, with credit for c the time they served w'niie awaiting 11 trial. In both cases, the crime against nature charge was consolidated with b a conviction on one count of felonious ft larceny. a David McCray was sentenced to three years in prison, with credit for B time served. Pickett's three-year ft prison term was suspended for three s1 years, with three years of supervised v probation. Also, Pickett was fined S $250 and was ordered to perform 100 0 hours of community service work. ft Hot Weath? Let us service your air conditioner for the hot days $? of summer. AgK cnrri a i i*7iwir ui ! "3B jr lv_iaai_iz_11nvo iin \ AIR CONDITIONING, -^53 HEAT PUMP, DOMESTIC f REFRIGERATION fg?|i REPAIR Al I MAk'PC SUSS THE BSUf-'SWiCK StACOM Gene's Heating & Air Conditioning 754-4852 ( SERIES 5 OF i: Seeing Well As Grow Older A Special 12-Part Series About Our Chan Sponsored By Carolina Eye Associates. 1 Unrecognized oi cataracts By George Tate. Jr.. M.D. e Cataracts are sly. Loss w of vision from cataracts ti often occurs so slowly h that most senior adults p are not even aware of their effects on their style H of living. h Cataracts usually be- p gin to develop in one eye s< first, and the good vision a in the other eye "hides" tithe poor vision in the eye c< with the cataract (to dis- th cover this, cover one eye at a time, and see if there J< is a difference in your vi- c< sion from left eye to rc right.) c< Here arc some unrec- rc agnized symptoms of cat- rc aracts: a< 1. Driving up over c< curbs while turning the in car. With poor vision in di one eye only, depth per- p ception may be affected. 2. Mismatched colors a of clothing (a blue tie oi with a brown shirt.) Be- Si cause cataracts are often fc yellow or brown in color. 1the blue and violet colors v^iaiixiui JJvJ SGGIx G3 Vv Gil. G One lady bought lamp o. shades for her home two B: days before having her s\ cataracts removed, then C alter surgery she discov- Pi Thursday, May 26, 1988?Page 15-C ?nced use All four faced possible maximum rison sentences of 10 years and resumptive sentences of three ears. According to court records, addi uiicii cnarges against me >ur?including two counts of firstegree rape, two counts of firstegree sexual offense and another rime against nature charge?were ismissed as part of plea greements. The Brunswick County Sheriffs lepartment arrested the four men on le rape and sex offense counts on an. 19, one day after Johnson, 'ickett and Terry McCray were jaild by Shallotte Police on shoplifting harges. David McCray was taken ito custody Jan. 19 at his residence. In February, the four were indicted y a Brunswick County grand jury on le rape, sex offense and crime gainst nature charges. At the time of their arrests, irunswiek County Sheriff's Deteo ve Lindsay Walton said the charges temmed from two alleged rapes inolving a 16-year-old Calabash area ir). The sexual assaults allegedly ccurred Dec. 6, 1987, and Jan. 9 in ie Pinecrest community. m >* is Here! Atlantic Air 842-7302 Eyesight L Symptoms red they were the rrong color. Many paents are thrilled with ow blue the sky apears alter surgery. 3. Tinting hair "blue." ow could Mabel tint her air blue? No one susected cataracts. For the ime reason given bove, many women in reir senior adult years an't see the "blue" in leir hair alter tinting. 4. The New England Durnal ol Medicine re3ntly reported that cataicts are an overlooked ause ol medication er>rs. The yellow cataicts prevent many dults Irom seeing the Mors pills they are takig. Blue may appear all grey. Green may apaar dark brown. For more information U ?- .X L ' uuui cataracts, or aoout ther eye disorders, call ghtLine, our toll-free in>rmation service at 800-227-5189. This special series on y es is sponsored by Curlina Eye Associates of runswick County. Brunvick Hospital at Doctors omplex #2, Supply. NC. tone (919) 754-5434.
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