King Classic A First Come Labor Day, the South Brunswick Islar major king mackerel tournament, an all-cas details are on Page 16-C. ttS 3W W VAO^ * S? Twenty-sixth Year, Number 37 '-'r w^7?qarg^?-T-Mfu?r3?ajg??io^acTMaEwaBMBigJBUi?aitM3Lrsg.7t^t ^-.nra C j* \^UI UfJI IU s/f BY DOUG RUTTER Following a recent survey of its registered voters, Carolina Shores will seek state legislation next year to allow residents to vote on incorporation. Two-thirds of the community's registered voters who responded to the survey said they were in favor of loosing luruier into incorporation. About 70 percent of the 800 registered voters responded to the survey, which was sent out in May. A total of 372 of the 555 respondents said they favored proceeding with incorporation. Despite the survey, a formal referendum must be Iheld sometime next year to determine if the golf course community on the outskirts of Calabash will become a CTVIBJUKUajf-JCKte.wnur HAP *-IL_ 1 tXXZTStr-Sr3&XXZST*V pV . -rr', JERRY'S CALABASH SEAFOOD on lvey High Stre< destroyed late Saturday night in what authorities Fire Destroys Rest BY RAHN ADAMS three to four weel A padlocked Calabash restaurant Brunswick Com was destroyed by fire Saturday two Davis said that no weeks before it was to be auctioned in thd case and "i by the Brunswick County Sheriff's were identified a; Department to recover unpaid state ing. taxes. The property, v SBI agents said Monday that the the sheriff's depr blaze at Jerry's Calabash Seafood on owned by Jerry a lvey High Street was under in- Some 50 firen vestigation as a "suspicious" fire. from the Calat "Preliminary indications are that Longwood, Sunse it was accidentally or intentionally Beach and Waccs set," said Supervising Agent Dave departments wer Marshall of the regional SBI office in restaurant Satur Jacksonville. according to I Marshall declined further com- Emergency Mi ment on the investigation, saying the dinator Cecil Log SBI was waiting for samples taken By the time fi from the fire scene to be analyzed, frame structure \ Test results should be available in flames, with the Brunswick F< BY RAHN ADAMS tion," Canady s; While farmers in other sections of spring. That ma the state and nation are thirsting for in the world." rain to break the current drought, From June 1 Brunswick County agriculture is Shallotte area re holding its own, thanks to a wet spr- inches of rain, \ ing and timely rainfall this summer, inch below the "We haven't had that much of a level for the sai problem yet," Brunswick County tional 1.71 inche Agricultural Extension Chairman period of July 12 Milton Coleman said, one day after the deficit to .iO thundershowers drenched the Coleman said QkollnHo orno ii/ith mnro Ihon rminti; cum UMUllUtVb Ul V.U IT 1111 IIIW1 V. kllUli VVIIIIkJ IIUVV. OU1 > 1 ^-inches of rain. that have occurr In general, Brunswick County pie of months. I farmers are in "fairly good shape," are reported ab even though the current growing added that toba< season has included extended dry dry weather bet spells, Coleman said. crops. "Even though we're in a (rainfall) However, Cole deficit, the rain we've gotten has day that rainfall come on a timely basis," he said. to 10 days woui According to Shallotte Point county's field co meteorologist Jackson Canady, the in the tassling Shallotte area received 21.22 inches moisture to sur of rain this year through June 30. that it was "too i That amount was slightly higher than local soybean cr the long-term average of 20.94 inches "Some of thesi for the same six-month period. fering could hav Canady noted thai although June the moisture we and July have been drier than nor- past few days," mal, an usually wet spring increased According to ( the overall rainfall total. half of the count "We're really faring quite well, rainfall than tf compared to a lot of people in the na- area from Hick L ^ 1 ^ ids will host its first gjjgg ? ;h event. Registration ^ !Dii? run III Shallotte, North Carolina, mmmin>. hij j1,*ijik-vj n > 'j ,1/j.quT es* r^'rrv^ ? iores To Request municipality. "Any incorporation bill I introduce, no matter where or when, will require a referendum," said State Rep. David Reawine, who will introduce the local bill to the N.C. General Assembly. He said the bill cannot be introduced until at least next February, adding that a referendum date will have to be worked out with the local board of elections. According to Carolina Shores Property Owners Association Manager Robert Noe, introduction of the bill and the referendum will follow two or three meetings later this year with representatives of the In stitute of Government m Chapel Hill. Those meetings, he said, will be held in October or ;t, Calabash, was "suspicious" fire. Firemen from five have termed a on the scene of the blaze for about IV. aurant 2 Weeks Be ts, he said. burned through the roof, Logan said, nty Sheriff John C. Firemen were on the scene until 6:30 i arrests were made a.m. Sunday. 10 known suspects" Logan said no injuries were 3 of Tuesday mom- reported in the fire. He added that the blaze did not threaten any nearby rtiich was seized by businesses or homes, irtment June 21, is Although the restaurant had not nd Cheryl High. been occupied for weeks, the len and 11 trucks budding's electrical service was still ash, Grissettown- turned on at the time of the fire, t Beach, Ocean Isle Logan said. maw volunteer fire He said the blaze appeared to have e dispatched to the started inside the restaurant between day at 11:07 p.m., the kitchen and dining area. Jrunswick County Logan estimated damage to the anagement Coor- building and its contents at $150,000. ;an. The structure was completely gutted, remen arrived, the with only the shell of the building left vas fully involved in standing. fire having already According to Brunswick County rmers Cope With C aid. "We had a wet Columbus County along the Wacde all the difference camaw River has been especially hard-hit by dry conditions. until July 11, the 0. Kendall Bellamy of Hickman's ceived only about 2.2 which was about an expected seasonal ne period. An addis of rain during the Iv through 18 narrowed oi an incn. ^ , . .. ...: most crops in the ;;? r*V>?.: ;.,+ hved the dry periods ed over the past coun fact, wheat yields ove normal. And he ovei ine next seven d be crucial for the : rn crop because it is &:$ stage and requires V .*.: * * ^Z*JSp*PU | -^!j vive. Also, he noted J $ji early to tell" how the 3J op will turn out. /" S'M, e fields that were suf- * jp-?**la^Sf "^P e been revived due to ry Growing Seasor Crossroads said last Thursday that "Things in g he has lost about half of his 200-acre help a lot, but f< field com crop, which is used to feed corn?it won'l livestock. (See FARB % ' -Jgfe . AMY (right) and area. Bellamy said irrigation is ticl baskets of green crops survive a dry summer, altl kman's Crossroads of his field corn crop this year. 1 r i ? i rrcuenc; iric, a young Frenchman on a four-week . This exchange student's story is on Page j n ^ a a a sm ? 25c Per Copy 38 Pages Drporation what the results of the referendum will be. "There's no way to really forecast wliat will happen," he said. "I think most of the people want to take a good, hard look at it." Carolina Shores, which includes more than 1,200 iois. is iiicmueu in aii men uein? considered for nnneicn tion by the Town of Calabash. However, the town governing council has given no indication that the subdivision is a specific area of interest. Said Noe, "Most people are beginning to realize that if they want some control over what's going on around here they're going to have to incorporate. "Unless something startling happens at these meetings, I think they'll go ahead with it." e Office Begins ^merged Land' ms Review AN USHER "It reaffirms the law that the state : the 333 remaining doesn't have a right to grant i land claims filed 18 submerged lands (which Includes ago by Brunswick lands below the high water mark)," y owners could be said J. Allen Jernigan, assistant atlune 30 ruling by the torney general. "We think it is the ouri following a state most signuicani purnic trust opinion in 85 years and maybe the most ;o them as quickly as significant ever in North Carolina." Wojcicchowski said The impact of the ruling on local eoplc have questions claims is uncertain. However, at a ) help them, we'll get May 8, 1985, hearing on legislation is fast as we can. But regarding submerged land claims, !1 office." Ocean Isle Beach developer Odell ci is the director of Williamson estimated that as many vision of Marine as "99.66 percent" of the Brunswick submerged lands of- County land claims were based on tas been assigned the such early grants such as those in the ing "case by case" 1600s from King Charles to the Lords tely 6,500 in 25 coun- Proprietors. "People rely on these in submerged land establishing title," he said. And, according to Jernigan, "The paralegals has begun opinion tends to say those are not court records to up- valid." nation for the tracts Williamson and other local lanid, since the original downers who have filed major claims nants has most likeiy could not be reached for comment ugh division of the Monday or Tuesday, jr estate activity. State Upheld rk Hyde County case, The test case was a suit filed by the in a 17-page opinion state to determine ownership of a innot claim submerg- 640-acre tract of Swan Quarter Bay in :rely by prescription Hyde County. Sidney Arthur Credle ?ht's"), that is, con- of Swan Quarter had claimed approxuse while excluding imately 85 acres under G.S.115-205, savine his familv had harvested vnership of submerg- oysters there exclusively for many on grants by the state years. id. The state argued that a private individual's right to claim land by adverse possession applied only to vacant and unappropriated land, not > to public trust lands under navigable ? waters. The court agreed. In the opinion, eneral, it (rain) will Associate Justice Louis B. Meyer or the field crop?like traced the English common law print make much dif- cipie in which the sovereign owned >1ERS, Page 2-A) the sea and lands, subject to the rights of people to fish and navigate. Meyer noted that a 1972 amendment to the state constitution mandates the conservation and protec(See CLAIMS, Page 2-A) V-/ Council Lacks s Quorum Again * A Calabash Town Council couldn't meet officially Tuesday evening because it once again K-?-; lacked a quorum. However, the two council gat?gay., members and mayor who did I | show up chatted for more than a | hour with planning consultant 's*?i ^en Weeden about policy statements to be included in the ' / town's first land use plan. J' .5' Present for the hour-long inforv'' i. ' _'' mal session were Councilmen {. '- . v . Landis High and Keith Hardee and Mayor Doug Simmons. . T* it 1 t ... . . , v?- ,* - nowever, tne Doara will try siaff phoio by r'ahn aoams a8ain ta have an official meeting: helping most of his "noth,er fC,hedu,ed fo"" lough he has lost half ^cactey. Ju y 26, at 5:30 p.m. at the town hall. I