Marine I
BY DOUG RUTTER
Despite earlier statements that it
would drop its formal opposition to a
proposed marina on the Lockwood
Folly River, the state Division of
Marine Fisheries last week submitted
its second set of comments
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The comments were received last
Monday by the state Division of
Coastal Management, which will
grant or deny a major development
permit for the project after reviewing
marina plans and comments of 14
state and federal agencies.
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Paul Durchuck of Raleigh fling
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Postal Sc
For ?nnt
BY DOUG BUTTER
Postal service officials aren't si
ing much, but all indications are tl
they have selected a site for the p
posed South Brunswick Islands S
tion of the Shallotte Post Office.
"We never announce sites until
finish closing and then make th
public record," said John Gord
real estate specialist with the I
Postal Service in Greensboro.
According to local developer ]
Benton, however, the postal serv
has an option to purchase one piec
I property at Seaside. T
120,000-square-foot tract of lane
located on N.C. 904 between Bill E
ton Realty and Ocean Isle Fashi
Benton, one of four owners of
property, said the postal service
an option to purchase the land wl
will expire in January. The op
has been in effect for more tha
year, he said, and it was renewei
one occasion.
Although postal officials would
confirm a site selection or optio
Commiss
iBY RAHN ADAMS
When members of the Bruns\
County Board of Commissioners
mise to do their homework,
mean what they say.
Despite an earlier pledge to op
debate the controversy
over the I
Brunswick Coun-B
ty Airport Com-M^ J
mission's lease
with its fixed-BLt| <
base operat r, >.
county commis- Hp \ /,
sioners last week Wneeded
no out- p
side input and no Williamson
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Fisheries Re
Although Marine Fisheries comments
are considered vital in permit
application reviews for marinas, it is
me oniy agency cuuunenung on me
project to oppose it. The state Division
of Environmental Management
submitted the last of the outstanding
comments last Friday.
Channel Side Corporation,
developer of the 500-acre Lockwood
Folly golf and water community,
plans to build the 50-slip marina on
the Lockwood Folly River south of
Varnamtown near the Atlantic Intracoastal
Waterway.
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;s a disc across the recently spent i
of Paoli, Pa., as the grandfather, Jot
Isle Beach. The boys
srvice May Ha
h Brunswick S
purchase any land, Gordon said proay
gress is definitely being made wit!
iat the proposed South Brunswicl
ro- Islands office, which would serve the
ita- towns of Ocean Isle Beach, Sunse
Beach and Calabash,
we Selection of a site was expectet
em last year but was delayed when thi
on, federal government passed legisla
I.S. tion requiring major spending cut
backs from the postal service. Thesi
Bill cutbacks affected almost all capita
dee projects as well as retail servic
e of hours at existing offices,
'he The federal Omnibus Budge
I is Reconciliation Act passed las
(en- December required the postal sei
ons vice to save $815 million in capital e?
penses over the next two fiscal yeari
the As a result, Gordon said many plani
has ed offices in this region had to t
lich abandoned.
tion "One of the few which did survivi
m a because of the need in that area,
i on the Brunswick station," he said. "
is our intent to move forward wil
not that project."
n to Gordon said the postal service wi
ioners Do The
open discussion even amot
vick themselves to appoint Ocean Is
pro- Beach developer Odell Williamson
they a key vacancy on the seven-memb
airport board,
enly The action was taken during a foi
! minute-long special meeting l?
Thursday night in Bolivia. All fi
county commissioners were on har
as were the six other airport comm
sioners and about 10 interest
citizens.
The 6&-year-old Williamson, w
manages the Ocean Isle Beach A
port and also owns 277 acres adjac<
' to the county airport on Long Bea
Road, was not present at last Thu
instates
1 just fel
' j doing oui
; I obiect to
Shellfishermsn, however, have objected
to the proposed marina, claiming
that it will pollute and close down
one of the few remaining productive
shellfish areas in the river.
Shallotte, North Carolina, T
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STAFF PHOTO BY RAHN ADAM*
in afternoon at the beach with their
; Barry of Brick Landing Plantation.
ve Site
itation
. probably have money in its capita
i account this fall, either October o
[ November, with which it can secur
> land for the office. The actual pui
t chase, he said, will take several mor
ths to complete after the mone
1 becomes available.
2 Benton, however, said he was tol
- the purchase should be completed i
- October. He declined to discuss th
e purchase price of the property i
J question.
e Once the land is purchased, tt
postal service will accept bids on co:
it struction of a planned 13,000-squar
it foot office. Actual constructs
r- should take about one year,
c- The South Brunswick Islands st
3. tion was proposed to handle grow
i- in that area of Brunswick Count
ie The office, which is not expected
affect mailing addresses or the Z
e, code, will centralize the delive
is area for Ocean Isle Beach, Suns
It Beach and Calabash.
:h The site selection process beg
last April with the postal service i
ill (See POSTAL, Page 2-A)
ir 'Homewori
lg day's meeting,
lie He was appointed to fill the urn
to pired term of Albert Parker Jr., v
er resigned last month due to the stri
torn airport board's inability to w<
lr- together. Parker was appointed
ist January to a three-year term,
ve The airport commission v
id, scheduled to hold its regular mont
is- meeting Wednesday night (Aug.
ed at the airport. The board was fai
with taking action concerning
ho lease with Airport Enterprises bef
ir- an Aug. 26 deadline set by
jnt Federal Aviation Administration,
tch Other airport commissioners
rs- elude county appointees Rich
>position Tc
t like we weren't
" job unless we did
it "
William Hogarth
sctor of Marine Fisheries
According to William Hogarth,
director of the N.C. Division of
Marine Fisheries, there are 1,400
shellfishermen in Brunswick County
and 40 percent of their harvest comes
hursday, August 18, 1988
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To Che
BY SUSAN USHER
With the general election three
months off, Brunswick County
Republicans have replaced their candidate
for the District 1 seat on the
Brunswick County Board of Education.
Thomas (Tom) Pope, a 48-year-old
building contractor
who lives at (imp''
Thomasboro, will ME'j;
replace Grisset- yqjB* ?'
town homemaker *
Diane Grissett on ke .%*v I
the November 8
ballot. It will be
his first bid for ' "V
public office. He * , .
will run against Pope
Douglas Baxley of Tarheelandini
Acres, who will be seeking his secoiv
term in office.
Diane Grissett had filed for tli
seat to insure a spot on the District
f ballot for the Republican party, at
cording to Chairman John Dosher
"warming the seat" until a candidal
could be found.
Pope said Monday that he had beei
approached by party leaders am
asked to run, agreeing to do so abou
three weeks ago.
Grissett dropped out and thi
Brunswick County Republican Par
ty's Executive Committee submittei
Pope's name to the Brunswick Coun
ty Board of Elections, which approv
ed the party resolution at its meetinj
last Friday morning in Bolivia.
Pope, whose daughter enters th
il seventh grade at Shallotte Middl
r School next week, said he wants t
e serve on the school board becaus
he's concerned about the continuin
i- drug problem in the schools and fror
y a desire to see "authority an
respect" put back into the schools,
d Pope said he'd like to see more foi
n
le
" Convention Tr
le
n- Seven Brunswick County officia
e- attended the annual conference of tl
>n National Association of Counties
Anaheim, Calif., Aug. 5 through 11
ath
According to County Manager Jol
;y. T. Smith, the local delegation inclu
to ed himself, Commissioners Beiu
IP Ludlum, Chris Chappell and Ji
ry Poole, Clerk to the Board Regii
;et Alexander, Finance Director Lith
Hahn and Register of Deeds Robe
an Robinson.
ic- The conference consisted
meetings and workshops that invol
ed current problems facing counti
c;' Name Will
Conrad, Harold Hartwig and Burt
ex- k. Myers, Southport appointee Jo
rtio Walters, Long Beach appoint
ife- Lavern Tagge and Boiling Spri
irk T .nlrps nnnnintpp fipnrvp H. I.an
in Jr.
Resolving The Dispute
/as Prior to Williamson's appointme
hly the airport board was evenly split
17) its position toward Airport Ent
ced prises' 15-year lease, which has b(
its a point of controversy ever sinci
ore was initially approved Is
the December. Conrad, Myers i
Lanier have supported the lea
in- while Hartwig, Walters and Taj
ard have opposed it.
) Lockwooc
from the area of Lockwood Folly
River where the marina is planned.
The proposed marina is also about
200 feet upstream of a shellfish area
the state has used in its oyster relocation
program. This program pays
fishermen to move shellfish from
polluted areas to unpolluted areas
where they can later be harvested.
Lockwood Folly River is a sensitive
body of water, said Hogarth,
that is frequently closed to
shellfishing after heavy rainfall
when run-off carries bacteria into the
river. He said the state needs to con25c
Per Copy
iciks Ton
illenge E
cible action taken to rid the schools c
drug use.
While as a board member he coul
not single-handledly accomplis
those goals, Pope said he can spea
up on those issues and try to arous
the interest of other board membei
and the public in 1) seeing a|
propriate policies adopted and in
plemented then backing up facult
and administrators; 2) enlisting tb
community as a whole in addressin
those problems such as drugs the
stem from the students' home
rather than the classroom; and 3) ei
couraging greater accountability t
parents for their children's scho
performance.
Pope, a former missionary, se
I himself as a "peacemaker, with
d ax to grind."
"I think we've got to build up, i
e to tear down the system. We've j
1 some good employees in the systf
and they're moving in the right dirt
, tion. They just need more resps
e and authority."
Among his credentials, Pope sa
i his 20 years of building experien
i and mamagement would be helpl
t to the school board in overseeing :
pnnQtmptinri anH mainfpnanrp nt
b grams and in working wi
- employees.
i After attending high school
i- Greenville, S.C., he earned 1
- diploma while serving a three-ye
g stint in the U.S. Army as a milita
policeman. His time was divided b
e ween the occupational forces
e Korea and West Point Milita
o Academy.
e He attended Bob Jones Universi
g for one year and then attended Ni
n Tribes Bible School Mission
d Oviedo, Fla. He worked as a m
sionary, building churches in Mexi
r- with the Evangelical Church of M<
ip Costs Taxpay
Is across the nation, Smith said, not!
ie that one topic of particular interes!
in the local delegation was solid wa
disposal.
Although all of the bills hadn't b<
in tallied as of Tuesday, total cost of
d- six-day trip was more than $8,185
ly excluding meals, according
m figures supplied by Smith.
ia The seven officials' airfare fr
ia Wilmington to Orange County, Ca]
rt amounted to approximately $3,]
Lodging for five nights at The Hil
of in Anaheim cost at least $3,426
[v- based on a single room rate of $9'
es per day. Also, registration for
iamson I o A
on Williamson said in a telephone
hn terview last Thursday night tha
ee has an "open mind" concerning
ng lease. He noted that he had not
ier seen the document, although he
read media accounts of the
troversy.
nt, At the request of individual b<
on members, the FAA complete
er- review of the lease in May anc
;en dicated that the commission
; it leasing too much land to the fi
a s t base operator. Under federal law
ind lease must allow enough space a
ise, airport for more than one opera!
gge the facility is to be eligible for fu
federal funding.
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centrate on what's causing the temporary
closures and correct it rather
than adding to the problem.
"We are just concerned that any
additional impacts will cause more
?i ?;J inir-t
closures, ne saia. we re cuiicerueu
about I>ockwood Folly, period."
Although all comments on the proposed
marina have been received,
John Parker, major permits coordinator
with Coastal Management,
said a decision may be delayed
because there is some question
whether a sewage treatment plan
(See MARINA, Page U-A)
38 Pages Plus Insert
H
n Pope 1
laxley 1
>f ico and the Bethel Mission of Roma,
Texas, before settling in the Rio
d Grande Valley of Texas where he
h went to work as a builder,
k He moved to Brunswick County in
;e 1976 and in addition to construction is
s involved in land development.
> "We're a rural county. There's no
l- reason students can't go to school
;y and come out with an education," he
ie noted, expressing a concern about
ig the county and nation's illiteracy
it rate. "Everyone, every taxpayer
s, must be concerned about that,
n- Everyone is affected," he added.
>v The District 1 seat is among to be
ol filled during the November election.
The others are District 4 and District
es 3. The incumbents, James Forstner
no and Marvin McKeithan respectively,
were defeated in the May primary. I
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;m \A/ino Qn oc I
>c_ run IV VVJ v^/
Make Ballot
"d It's official.
CG
. Shallotte voters will decide the
future of off-premises sales of un|
fortified wines in town with a
referendum this fall.
The Brunswick County Board of
Elections approved the town's rem
quest for a referendum during its
1IS meeting last Friday. The vote will
be held Nov. 8 at the same time as
ry the general election.
Shallotte Aldermen petitioned
ln for the referendum at the request
ry of four town grocery stores, which
are now permitted to sell fortified
lty wines but not the less potent un?w
fortified wines.
in Town voters last addressed this
'is- issue in 1985. At that time, 66 perico
cent of those voting opposed it.
;x
'ers Over $8,000
ing conference totaled $1,575 or $225 per
t to person.
ste The county manager said the trip
will be paid for out of travel line
sen items in the officials' respective
the budgets.
.50 Hp added that his wife and the
to wives of Chappell and Ludlum also
attended the conference. Smith said
om Tuesday that he did not know if counlif.,
ty policy requires that the three men
184. reimburse the county for additional
ton expenses incurred by their spouses,
.50, but he said he plans to reimburse the
1.90 county for expenses incurred by his
the spouse.
irport Board
5 in- In a July 29 letter to Brunswick
t he County Commission Chairman Grace
the Beasley, Samuel F. Austin of the
yet FAA regional office in Atlanta, Ga.,
had stated that the airport commission
con- "needs to cancel or renegotiate the
lease" to delete portions of a 6.6-acre
aard tract that Airport Enterprises does
d a not need.
1 in- Airport Enterprises Director
was Harry Gale told the Beacon Friday
xed- that his company has agreed to
, the renegotiate the lease. "I have pert
the sonally assured the FAA that we will
or if comply," he said, adding that he
iture notified the airport commission of
(See WILLIAMSON, Page 2-A)
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