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Shallotte's Growing Pains
? Town officials eye annexation requests
H and a proposed zoning territory as they
grapple with steady growth. Page 6-A.
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Twenty-seventh Year, Number 22 ci9mthebrunswickbe
LOCAL HUNTER THOMAS INMAN shows off his newest blue t
Friday at the Brunswick County Animal Shelter.
Smuggler's Hound Sniffing C
BY RAHN ADAMS According to Brunswick Cc
Old Blue has something to howl Chief Civil Deputy Liston Hawes
about again. prospective buyers participate
After spending 15 long months in the auction Friday afternoon a
the "pen," the hunting dog that got animal shelter. Hawes opened
into trouble for being the wrong bidding at $70?the amount the c
Florida man's best friend left the ty had spent to advertise the sal
Brunswick County Animal Shelter Although Blue's actual value
Friday and didn't look back. questionable because his registn
Sold at public auction, the four- couldn't be verified, he was wort
year-old trained blue tick coon artiv tisnasn '?1
? j r.twwv.wu I.U nuuiiai V>Ui
hound?once owned by convicted co- Supervisor Zelma Babson, who
caine trafficker Larry Charles Green tallied up the animal's 15-m
of Starke, Fla.?went to high-bidder boarding and medical bill.
Thomas Inman of Shallotte for $260. However, due to the low sale p
A trained hound can be worth up to Animal Control had no choice bi
$5,000. mark $1,319.50 off the dog's bill
BILL STALLS IN COMMITTEE
Redwine Proposes Coi
Of Calabash And Can
BY DOUG UUTTER but Redwine said action was post]
Legislative committee action on a ed at his request and that of s
bill to incorporate Carolina Shores Sen. R.C. Soles. Legislative eomi
was postponed last week when State tee chairperson Edith Lutz
Rep. David Redwine introduced a Lawndale could not be reached
proposal aimed at easing growing comment this week,
tension between the community and When contacted Monday
its neighboring town, Calabash. telephone, Carolina Shores Propt
Redwine said he asked representatives
of the two I
southwestern f Ol II -
in^wic* c.u?:! 7 ana none
ty communities .1 __ _ jffp^
to work out an ;j *" ^5^ Shallotte Town Clerk Cynthia L
agreement * v La resigned Tuesday, one day bel
whereby both _ '"**** town aldermen were to consider
areas would be ??n''nuet' emP'?ymcnt with
Town of HSri'.& She had been suspended witt
Calabash. redwine pay on March 22 and given an opi
t "We have asked that the folks at tunity to appear before the alderr
Carolina Shores and the folks at in a hearing. The hearing would h
Calabash sit down and talk about been held Wednesday had it been
consolidating the whole area into one quested by the clerk, but alderr
town instead of there being two," will likely accept her resignation
said Redwine. "The bill is on hold un- stead.
til they have enough time to see if Mrs. Ixrng, town clerk since Jul
they can work it out." 1982, said she dropped a resignal
The incorporation bill was schedul- letter off at town hall Tuesday <
ed to go to a vote last Wednesday in that she was resigning for perse
the I/jcal Government II Committee, reasons. "It's just something th;
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Council members hea:
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ACON Shallotte, North Carolina, T
t gu. my-its* ?a ay.gg".jgr.i.-t-s?:.TViT uw mro*
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:ick coon hound, Blue, auctioned off for
v.+ n A
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mnty wish him the best. Proceeds from the '
s, six sale?minus expenses?would have
d in gone to the Brunswick County Board
t the of Education, as do all drug .
the forfeitures.
:oun- Inman, a local coon hunter who
e. already owned four blue tick hounds
was before buying Blue, said he heard
ition about the auction from a relative,
h ex- then read an article about the dog in
utrol last week's Beacon. He added that he
had planned to run the dog for the first
onth time on Monday.
When asked if he thought $2G0 was
rice, a bargain price for the coon hound, f
ut to Inman simply replied, "I'll let you
and know Monday."
nsolidotion
ilina Shores
jon- Owners Association President
tate Robert Cook refused to comment on
mit- the record about consolidation, and
of POA Manager Robert Noe said he
for knew nothing of the proposal.
According to Calabash Mayor
by Doug Simmons, however, Carolina
Jrty (See CONSOLIDATION, Page 2-A)
Clerk Resigns
ong wanted to do," she said,
fore While refusing to comment
her specifically on the suspension, she
the said it did not have anything to do
with town finances. Mayor Jerry
lout Jones and town aldermen refused to
3or- discuss reasons for the suspension z
nen following the action last month and | j
ave could not be reached for comment j
re- Tuesday evening.
nen Mrs. Long, an employee of the (0;
in- town for nearly 15 years, had been
earning an annual salary of $17,160 at
y 7, the time of her suspension. j
lion Since the action, Assistant Clerk j
and Mary Ktta Hewett has been serving t
>nal as interim town clerk. She lias work- f
it I ed in town hall nearly seven years.
:h Listens 1 Bedd
r offer of free life- 9 Commiss
lange for a beach 1 the alert
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hursday, April 6, 1989 25c Per Cop<
Senator Propose
To Tax' Illegal C
BY RAHN ADAMS subject to the tax.
Illegal drug dealers would be look- penalty equal to the
lg over their shoulders at taxmen as ment of up to five yei
'ell as lawmen under a bill filed last "What I like about
'eek by a state legislator who has bypass the judicial ;
een keeping an eye on Brunswick said. "In many cases
bounty's drug trade. not giving them (dri
19th District Sen. Robert G. Shaw, mandatory minimum
^a Greensboro ed that he became
resident and situation from readir
Holden Beach accounts of drug i
V property owner, Brunswick County ov
WWlrrti - Wednesday pie of years.
introduced In 1987 and 1988, Bri
, legislation that investigative grand jt
\gjgPjjJTJ would impose an individuals on dri
' excise tax on con- charges. According tc
trolled only two of the 65 c
shaw substances. "It's have been sentenced s
ist another way to give them (drug ordered to pay mand.
;alers) problems," Shaw told the fines?$50,000 for 28
eacon Monday. He added that he trafficking counts,
so intends to file a companion bill 200-gram counts an
lis week which would ensure that 400-gram counts,
lajor drug traffickers serve active The two defendan
ison time. Bryan Willis III of Shi
The senator's tax bill calls for fined $250,000 on one
vies of approximately $100 per spiracy to traffic in
mce of marijuana and $200 per grams of cocaine; am
am of cocaine and other controlled son of Supply, who wa
ibstances. Dealers who do not pay on two counts each o
le tax?which they could do traffic and traffiekini
lonymously?within 48 hours of ob- 28 grams of cocaine,
lining the illegal drugs would be received mandato
Lock wood Foliy Re|
Tanks 'Probably' Pc
BY DOUG RUTTER t0
Septic tanks are pinpointed as the most probable aj,
source of pollutants in Lockwood Folly River in a re
preliminary water quality report by the N.C. Division of -pi
Environmental Management. Bc
Of five potential sources of coliform bacteria?an wt
indicator of pollution?malfunctioning septic tanks
were tagged as the leader, contradicting an earlier
study conducted by another state agency. ti0
Other bacteria sources listed were surface jv
wastewater discharge, animal waste, stormwater eS|
runoff and influx from the Atlantic Intracoastal Water- m;
way. lm
However, in addition to citing "septic tanks and Ha
jossibly urban stormwater runoff" as the major
sourres of hartoria in thn rivor mnnrf
????"? 1CVU1U- Shi
nends that a more intensive study be conducted to con- be
irm the relative importance of the various ac
jacteriological sources. p0
The draft evaluates the decline in water quality in
he Lockwood Folly River Basin and offers suggestions
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.OCKWOOD FOLLY HIVER BASIN includes approx- Bui
mately 88,600 acres, or approximately 15 percent of in I
he land in Brunswick County. Most of the acreage is for
orest or wetland, with development concentrated near
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>s Legislation
)rug Dealers
an additional prison terms of 35 years and 28 years
tax, imprison- respectively.
irs and a fine. Under current state law, a judge
it is that it will can give drug traffickers sentences
system," Shaw that are lighter than the mandatory
, the judges are minimum prison terms and fines, if
lg dealers) the the defendent has provided "substani
fine." He add- tial assistance" to investigators. The
aware of that Willis and Robinson cases have been
ig the Beacon's the only ones so far in which no finirosecutions
in dings of substantial assistance were
er the past cou- made.
Shaw noted that drug arrests have
unswick County been on the increase in North
iries indicted 84 Carolina over the past three years,
ig trafficking with approximately 16,000 arrests in
, ? J _ mnn 1 ft AAA i _ 1 not ? 1 on Ann
; cuui i recurus, * ivy\j\jv in l'jot aim ??,UUU in liJOfl.
lefendents who He estimated that the proposed ex:o
far have been cise tax and penalties would have
itory minimum raised approximately $400 million
-gram cocaine last year across the state.
$100,000 for For example, three local men who
d $250,000 for pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking
charges last year each would have
ts were Alvin owed more than $100,000 in taxes, if
illotte, who was Shaw's proposed law had been in efcount
of con- foot.
more than 400 Olaf Dale Varnam of Supply, who
1 Rocky Robin- pleaded guilty to 18 trafficking-level
s fined $200,000 possession counts involving at least
f conspiracy to 2,364 grams of cocaine, would have
i in more than owed $472,800 in taxes at a rate of
Both men also 5200 per gram. Clarence Virgil
ry minimum (See SENATOR, Page 2-A)
port Says Septic
n
)llution Source
state and local government agencies and the public
tried at protecting and enhancing water quality and
versing the trend of areas being closed toshellfishing.
le study is an outgrowth of a public meeting held in
ilivia last October at which several state agencies
;re represented.
The report goes on to suggest that 1( if additional
idy confirms failed septic tanks as the source of pollun
and 2) reopening shellfish waters has a high priorithen
the county and state need to consider
.ablishing sanitary districts or similar wastewater
inagement systems to serve the rapidly-developing
ver portion of the basin?the Varnamtown-Sunset
irbor area.
As of December 1988, 71 percent of the available
ellfish acres in the river area were closed to harvest
cause of pollution. Since last August, more than 650
res of the 1,650 total acres have been shut down temrarily.
me report also pinpoints stormwater runoff and
(See POLLUTION, Page 2-A)
"N. Lockwood Folly River Basin
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Pine ^\
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~^p f f~' Half Hell
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Sunset Hatbor "
Long Beach ?
Yaupon~ Beach
ivia. Supply, Varnamtown and Sunset Harbor. Soils
the watershed "generally have severe limitations
septic tank use," according to a state study.