Shaiiotte Fees To Rise
Some merchants will be paying more
for the right to do business In
Shallotte starting July 1. For the
details, see Page 6-A.
Jackson Wins Tourney
Jimmy Jackson of Fayettevllle won the
'Shallotte Point VFD Flounder
Tournament with this elght-pounder.
The story and photos are on Page 11 -B.
Share Your Opinion
The public Is encouraged to submit public
comments on Mobil's proposal to drill an
exploratory well off the N.c. coast. See
Page 9-C.
THE BR_. JffEACON
Twenty-eighth Year, Number 30 ?i mo the brunswick beacon Shaiiotte, North Carolina, Thursday, June 14, 1930 25C Per Copy 34 Pages, 3 Sections, Plus inserts !
SUPREME COURT WILL BE ASKED TO REVIEW LOT 1 -A CASE
Court Of Appeals Agrees: Sunset Lot Should
Remain Open
BY SUSAN USHER
The legal battle over Lot 1-A isn't over, despite a
unanimous decision by the N.C. Court of Appeals last
week that affirms with one modification a 1988 trial
court ruling that the ocean -~ront lot at Sunset Beach is a
public right-of-way for bcach access.
"Plaintiffs arc in our opinion entitled to have the
100-foot- wide extension of Sunset Boulevard left
open," wrote Judge Sarah Parker in the unanimous de
cision filed June 5.
Jim Maxwell, attorney for the plaintiffs, Sunset
Beach Taxpayers Association and several individual
property owners, said simply, "We're delighted."
John W. Nanon of Raleigh, an attorney for Sunset
"Plaintiffs are in our opinion entitled
to have the 100 -foot-wide extension of
Sunset Boulevard left open."
? Judge Sarah Parker
N.C. Court of Appeals
Beach & Twin Lakes, owner of the lot, said the defen
dants would petition before the deadline for a "writ of
certiorari" from the N.C. Supreme Court? an order
commanding the appeals court to send up a record of
STAFF PHOTO BY DOUG R UTTER
an automobile rammed through the front glass doors at Shal
NOBODY WAS INJURED when ,
lotte Post Office Monday morning.
Car Smashes Into Shallotte Post Office
The quiet routine of employees and customers at
Shallotte Post Office was shattered Monday morning
when an automobile crashed through the front glass
doors.
Nobody was injured when Fannie Belchc Kccton,
79, of Route 9, Shallotte, drove her 1985 Ford LTD
through the front doors of the post office Monday at
11:30 a.m.
"She went to mash the brake and mashed the gas
by mistake," said Shalloue Patrolman Rhea Altizer,
who charged the driver with property damage.
Altizer estimated that the vehicle was traveling no
more uiaii 5 mpii when ii ran over a concrcte bumper
block and handicapped parking sign and smashed
through the post office doors. When the vehiclc came
(See CAR CRASHES, Page 2-A)
County Man
Charged
With Murder
Of Stepfather
A Brunswick County man is in
Central Prison for the Thursday
night murder of his stepfather, ac
cording to the Brunswick County
Sheriff's Department.
Albert Grover Hensiey, 74, of
Route 3, Box 113, Supply, was kil
led and his stepson, Eddie Wayne
Earlywine, 34, of the same address,
was charged with first-degree mur
der, according to a Sheriff's Depart
ment report.
The Sheriff's Department re
ceived a call about 7:40 p.m. and
was told that people were fighting
and someone had been shot at an
Ocean Pines section residence, ac
cording to a departmental report
When officers arrived at the
scene off Holden Beach Road, they
found Hensiey shot once in the
chest with a ,38-caliber pistol and
Earlywine waiting at the scene.
Earlywine 's first appearance
hearing was Friday and he was then
transported to Central Prison for
safekeeping, according to Capt.
Douglas Padgett His probable
cause hearing is scheduled for June
26 and attorney Mike Ramos has
been appointed to represent him, ac
cording to the arrest warrant.
Hensiey 's body was sent to Jack
sonville Friday for an autopsy, ac
cording to Padgett. Sheriff's Dcicc
tives Lindscy Walton and Kevin
Holden are investigating officers,
Padgett said.
Santa Takes A Vacation
While Santa Claus was vacationing at // olden Beach last week,
he caught up with vacationing youngsters at Calabash Nautical
Gifts and St. Nick Nacks at night, telling them how much they
had grown since Christmas and reminding them to be good for
the next six months. In the photo, Tyler Sams, of Arden, N.C.,
who was vacationing at Murreiis iniet with his patents, John and
Martha Sams, convinces Santa he has been a good boy. Santa
told us he hit his finger with a hammer while making a toy and
severely bruised his finger. So, he said, while he was forced to
take a vacation, he decided to take it in the South Brunswick
Islands. He assured us he would be back at the toy-building shop
this week, however.
the proceedings for the purpose of judicial review.
"We feel the decision is in error and we feel the
Supreme Court wili uvciiurn ii," N'arron said. "The pur
pose for which the street was offered ? vehicular access
to the beach ? no longer exists, therefore it should be
closed, and the street was never accepted for dedica
tion."
There is no automatic right of appeal to the state
Supreme Court following a unanimous decision; the
higher court agrees to review such cases at its discre
tion.
The case involves the ownership and use of "Lot 1
A," located south of the intersection of Main Street and
Sunset Boulevard. The lawsuit was Hied in 1985 by the
Sunset Bcach Taxpayers' Association (SBTA) against
Sunset Beach & Twin Lakes Inc., a business owned by
developer Hd Gere und family. Gore is also mayor pro
tcm of Sunset Bcach.
The SBTA filed suit in 1985 seeking to have Lot 1
A declared an extension of Sunset Boulevard and de
clared "available and open to plaintiffs and other mem
bers of the public for ingress and egress to the Atlantic
Ocean, for parking, walking and other public uses."
In 1988 Judge Bruce Briggs ruled in the plaintiffs'
favor. Motions filed later that year by the defendant
seeking a new trial and the setting aside of the judgment
were denied.
(See SUNSKT BEACH, Page 2-A)
Williamson Offers To Build
Water Line., Lease To County
BY BOB HORNE
Occan Isle Bcach real estate de
veloper Odell Williamson Thursday
night offered an alternative solution
to one of Brunswick County's most
pressing problems: the means to
provide sufficient water flow south
and west of Shallotte.
Speaking before more than 300
residents at a public hearing on the
county's 1990-91 budget in the
county Public Assembly Building at
Bolivia, Williamson offered to build
water transmission lines, pumping
stations and water tanks to provide
the water and and lease the facilities
to the county and give the county
the option to purchase them.
County commissioners who were
asked about Williamson's offer de
clined to comment, pending further
evaluation of the offer.
"I'm ready to meet with the utili
ties board, the board of commis
sioners, or have a joint meeting or
whatever," Williamson said. He told
The Beacon Friday that he feels the
ball is now in the county commis
sioners' court, that he made an offer
and will now wait to hear from
them.
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he has been working on the county
water situation for "30 days or
more. I've gone over this thing with
a consultant of mine and an cngi
ODELL WIIJJAMSON briefly
explains his offer to the county
commissioners, and more than
300 county residents.
nccr and I think I might be able to
save the county some money. And I
thought this (public hearing) would
be the appropriate time to present it,
when the people would be there.
"If they give me the go-ahead in
60 days, I could give them water in
two years," Williamson said. "If I
don't do it, I think it will be three
years. I made most of my money in
this county and if I can make things
better for the people, I want to do
it."
Williamson said he is not averse
to making money, but that profit
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toil L UIV IIIUU?V WVlltllU Uftto UttVI.
"Of course, I'm in business and
anybody is entitled to make a prof
it," Williamson said. "But I didn't
go into it for that. I think I can give
il (water facilities) to them more
economically than someone in
Charlotte or somewhere else. And if
I made a profit on it, the money
would stay here."
Williamson also proposed that
those who use the water pay for the
cost, saying, "I think, properly con
structed and properly handled, the
rest can be done pretty much on a
pay-as-you-go basis." He would
build the transmission lines, pump
ing stations and tanks to get the wa
ter to the southerly and westerly ar
eas of the county and the county
would handle tap-ons and water me
ters, Williamson said "1 would take
care of the most-costly part."
"I'm a developer; I installed the
water system on Ocean Isle Beach,
so I know quite a bit about it,"
Williamson said. "I know pressures,
I know how to make it work and I
know a lot of people out there arc
entitled to water."
Williamson said he figures he can
build the system for less than die
57 .3 million that has been projected
as the cost of the water-system im
provements. "I would probably save
them a million or two," he said.
Williamson said that if some of
the commissioners "don't like my
politics or something else and don't
want it, so be it But I gave them the
best offer they can get, I'll tell you
that."
PUBLIC HEARING ATTRACTS 300
39 Speak To Commissioners
BY BOB 1IORNE
More than 300 people turned out
at a public hearing on the 1990-91
Brunswick County budget, some to
let the county commissioners know
how they feel and others to applaud
those who verbally expressed the
sentiments they felt.
Fifty-six people signed up to
speak to the commissioners, with 39
of those actually taking their three
minute turn.
The two biggest items on the
agenda of the speakers was 1. for
commissioners to find a way to
avoid a lax increase and 2. for the
commissioners to find a way to pro
vide water to everyone south of
Shallottc who needs it. Developer
Odell Williamson made an offer to
commissioners to provide the water
line. An accompanying article de
tails that offer.
Vernon Ward called for consis
KENNETH BELLAMY empha
sizes a point to the Brunswick
County commissioners.
tcncy in the treatment of county ad
visory boards and the elimination of
"any advisory board which is not
meeting constructive and defined
objectives which are in the best in
terests of the taxpayers and/or is
self-serving to individuals" and a
discontinuance of all payments of
"per diem, meals, etc." to all advi
sory boards.
Ward also suggested that the
county misuses the interest earned
on the sale of bonds and should use
it to pay off interest expense on the
bonds, instead of for other purposes.
He also questioned why unex
pended departmental funds are al
lowed to be carried over, instead of
reverting back to the county. He cit
ed the county Board of Education as
an example. He said the school
board requested dental insurance, "I
believe it was, for the employees of
the school system. The commission
ers refused their request for $37,000
and the Board of Education said
that it was okay. They would pay
for it from their contingency-fund
balance." Ward also said the num
(See 39 SPEAK, Page 2-A)
CP&L Plant Producing Power
Again After Crews Requalify
BY SUSAN USHER.
Boih units of Carolina Power &
Light Company's Brunswick nucle
ar plant were expected to be operat
ing at 100 percent power again by
late Wednesday after two of ihrw.
crews of operators passed rcliccns
ing tests this past weekend that they
earlier had failed.
The utility shut down both reac
tors at the plant May 20 after 23 of
47 operators failed one or more por
tions of a rcliccnsing exam adminis
tcred by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. Those who failed
were reassigned to other duties until
they could pass the tests. The NRC
administers relicensing tests to all
licensed operators in the country on
a staggered, six-year schedule.
Those retested over the weekend
were operators who had failed only
a crew simulator test, the final por
tion of the three-part rcqualificalion
exam. The simulation, a computer
operated program, presents opera
tors with problem scenarios? hypo
thetical emergencies ? that test op
erators' overall knowledge of com
ponents, systems and safety proce
dures. A mistake by one crew mem
ber causcs the entire team to fail if
it is not noticed and corrected.
The third team, which did not
pass the retesting, will be retested
again, said CP&L spokesman Eliza
beth Bean, but a date has not been
SCL
(See CP&L, Page 2- A)