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Club Celebrates Libraries
Mayor Jerry Jones signs a proclamation declaring April 22-28 National Library Week in Shallotte
as West Brunswick High School Library Club members Mary Jo Smith, Michelle Abel and Terressa
Gause look on. During the week the school library will hold a daily trivial library reference question
contest, several activities to promote reading and learning, and a "forgiveness" day during which
fines will not be charged for overdue books returned to the library.
South Carolina Man Crashes
Into Supply Man's Vehicles
A South Carolina man escaped
injury early Sunday when his car
crashed inlo two vehicles parked
outside a Supply area residence.
N.C. Highway Patrol spokesper
son Ruby Oakley said the accident
happened Sunday at 3:10 a.m., five
miles north of Shallottc on U.S. 17,
and involved Jonathan J. Bloch. 32,
of Conway, S.C.
Ms. Oakley said Bloch's 1989
Ford ran a stop sign from a side
road and shot across U.S. 17 at a
high rate of speed. His car hit a
parked 1987 Chevrolet and pushed
it into a parked 1990 Chevrolet
pickup truck. Both parked vehicles
were owned by Sheldon Pigott of
Supply.
Bloch, who wasn't hurt, left the
accident scene but was apprehended
20 minutes later by Trooper J.V.
Dove, Ms. Oakley said. Dove
charged Bloch with driving while
impaired and leaving the sccnc of
an accident.
The trooper estimated damages at
$3,000 to Bloch's car, S6.000 to
Pigott's car and $5,000 to his truck.
In another accidcnt, a Shallottc
teen-ager was slightly hurt when his
pickup truck wrccked near Shallot
tc.
Ms. Oakley said the mishap oc
curred last Thursday at 9:20 p.m.,
3.8 miles north of Shallottc on
Civictown Road, and involved 16
year-old Barry Lee Chadwick.
The teen's 1988 Ford truck was
headed north when it ran off the
right side of the road in a curve and
overturned, Ms. Oakley reported.
She said that Chadwick complained
of minor injuries but apparently did
not require emergency medical care.
Trooper D.B. Harvcll charged
Chadwick with exceeding a safe
speed and estimated damage to the
truck at $5,000.
Check Forgery
Charges Filed
A Supply teen-ager was arrested
last week for allegedly forging two
of his mother's checks, according to
the Brunswick County Sheriff's
Department.
Anthony Locust, 19, was charged
Friday with two counts of forgery
and uttering, said Del. Kevin
Holdcn. The teen was being held
Monday in the Brunswick County
Jail under a $2,000 sccured bond.
A report on fde at the sheriff's
department states that Locust's
mother, Bessie L. Bellamy, reported
April 10 that she discovered two
checks had been taken from her
checkbook and cashed in her son's
name.
The amounts of the checks were
not listed in the report The alleged
forgery and uttering incidents oc
curred March 28 and 30.
Man Arrested On Assault Charge
A Bolivia area man was arrested
Saturday in connection with an as
sault earlier this month outside a
nightspot near Supply.
Archie Williams, 29, of Route 1,
Bolivia, was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon inflicting se
rious injury and carrying a con
cealed weapon, according uj Biuns
wick County Sheriff's DcL Kevin
Holdcn.
Sheriff's department reports indi
cate that the assault charge stems
from an incident in which Arron
Simmons, 35, of Route 2, Supply,
was beaten in the parking lot of the
Ball Diamond Joint on N.C. 211
near Lockwood Folly Township
District Park.
A report states that the assault oc
curred April 7 around 11:15 p.m.
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Simmons told officers that he and
Williams got into an argument after
Williams called him out of the es
tablishment. Williams allegedly re
trieved a large pistol from his vehi
cle and struck Simmons about three
times on the head with the weapon.
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emergency room treatment, the re
port says. He required stitches for a
three-inch laceration on top of his
head.
Holden said the weapon charge
against Williams was filed Saturday
after lawmen took him into custody
and found a "butterfly" knife in his
possession. Williams was released
from custody on a $4,000 secured
bond.
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County lawmen Monday were in
vestigating a break-in and theft re
ported last Thursday at a Shallotte
area store, according to a report on
file at the Brunswick County Sher
iff's Department.
Jackie Soles of Harrelson's Farm
Supply on U.S. 17 south of Shal
lotte told officers that the business
was entered sometime between 5:15
p.m. last Wednesday and 8 a.m. last
Thursday.
The intruder gained entry by cut
ting a five-foot-wide hole in a
greenhouse wall and then prying
open a back door to the main build
ing. The only item stolen was a
chainsaw worth $200, although the
thief also entered the store's office.
Damage was estimated at $85.
An Ash area farmer also reported
a break-in and theft last week at his
warehouse on Ash-Little River
Road near N.C. 904.
Willie Ward of Route 1, Ash, said
someone entered his warehouse be
tween 5 p.m. last Thursday and 9:15
a.m. Friday. Stolen were two grind
ers, a tool box and assorted tools.
Theft loss was placed at $624.
Also, Earl David Walter Jr. of
Columbia, Md., told the officers
that a storage bin he rented at Mini
Warehouse Storage on Hale Swamp
Road was broken into between Dec.
27 and Friday.
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The thief got inside the storage
bin by cutting a padlock off the
door, then removed six porcelain
household lamps worth $120.
Homes Entered
The sheriff's department Monday
also was looking into several resi
dential break-ins that were reported
over the past week.
Larry W. Nail of Calabash said
someone entered his condominium
in Building Four of Carolina Shores
Resort on N.C. 179 last Thursday
between 7:30 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
There was no sign of forced entry.
Missing property included $700
in cash, $2,000-worth of jewelry, an
$800 knife collection and cowboy
boots. The property was listed in
value at $3,642.
James O. Gray of Route 3, Le
land, told lawmen that his mobile
home on Chapel Loop Road was
entered Friday between 4 a.m. and
2:50 p.m. Suspects entered the trail
er by removing an air conditioner
from a back window.
Stolen were a 19-inch Magnavox
color television, a 19-inch black
and-white television, a Magnavox
telephone answering machine, a
Scars cordless telephone and stereo
equipment. The items were worth
$815.
Frank Hancock of Racford re
ported that his rcsidcncc in Bcliamy
Heights off Stanbury Road was en
tered between March 9 and Satur
day morning. The intruder pried
open a back door to gain entry.
Property worth $585 was stolen,
including a Panasonic radio-cassette
player, six cassette tapes, a tele
phone-clock radio, a chess set, bino
culars, a tool box, assorted tools, a
West Bend wall clock and a Wind
mere fan.
Jerry D. Draughn of Joncsvillc
said someone broke into a shed at
his dwelling in River Bend Estates.
A Pioneer chain saw worth $350
was taken.
Other Thefts
In other thefts reported to the
sheriff's department, Dcwitt Tarlton
of Charlotte told deputies that an
F&W water pump worth $250 was
stolen from outside his mobile
home in Ocean Trail II subdivision.
Also, a stolen car report last
Thursday night was determined to
be unfounded. Glenn Parker of
Route 7, Shalloltc, said his 1977
Chevrolet Monte Carlo was stolen
from the yard of his rcsidcncc on
Brooks Drive, Seaside. The car was
found Friday parked at Seaside
Plaza on N.C. 179 and was returned
to Parker.
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