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Holden Police Officer Charged With Assault And Trespassing BY DOUG Rl'TTKR store where he we 111 to purchase a volved. A Hoi lien Beach police officer soft drink and pulled his car into "The city's not involved in any has been charged with second-de his parage. The building inspector way," he said. "It's not our affair, gree trespassing and simple assault said he closed the automatic gar This is an individual case." in connection with an incident ear age di>or and when he got out ol Proctor said Dancy was not aet her this month involving another his car. Dancy was standing in the ing as a police officer at the time town employee. garage. of the alleged offense. No disci Patrolman Gary Dancy. who has Carroll said the officer was dres- plinary action has been taken worked for the Holden Beach Po- sed in uniform, had a hand on his against him. lice Department since July P>K7, gun and did not have a search w ar- Town Attorney Doug Lcdgett was charged follow ing an Aug 2 rant. He said he asked Dancy to said he was notified of the matter, incident that involved Holden leave several times, but he stayed but he is not involved in it because Beach Building Inspector Dwight in the garage for about 20 minutes. it's a private action that doesn't in Carroll Ai one point, Carroll said, Dan- volve the town of Holden Beach. 'TIk building iii.s|H'uoi look otti c> uieu to iiii iiim in liic iieaii with Mayor John Tandy said uie town a warrant for Dancy's arrest, a clenched fist, but he ducked and wouldn't take any action until the which was served Aug ft by the took the blow on the shoulder. "I matter is settled in court, if the Brunswick County Sheriff's De- don't know what his problem town takes any action at all. Tandy partment, said Chief Deputy John was." Carroll said. said, it's probably up to the town Marlow. Dancy declined to comment on manager to settle the matter since The case is scheduled to be the incident. "Until it's resolved in he oversees all town employees, heard Sept. 4 in Brunswick County court, I cannot ~>akc a statement," Patrolman Dancy was suspend District Court, according to the he said Tuesday. cd without pay from the police clerk of court's office. Meanwhile, Holden Beach offi- force for one week earlier this year Carroll, who lives about two cials arc keeping out of the dispute after he was involved in a car acci blocks fiom Dancy at Holden between the two town employees. dent that occurred while he was on Beach, said the incident occurred Town Manager Blake Proctor duty. The suspension was later re Aug 2 around 3 a.m. said it's a private dispute between scinded and the officer was given He had just relumed from a two people, and the town is not in- his hack pav. i ; i Clam Waters Remain Clear For Now (Continued From Page 1-A) ing. which was a sharp contrast lo oihcr rcccni hearings 011 mcchanicai ciam harvesting in Brunswick County that attracted standing-room-only crowds. Several speakers said the meeting was scheduled during a low tide in Brunswick County, and that clam niers couldn't afford to take a night off to come to the hearing Others said a thunderstorm may have kept peo ple away. State Rep. David Red wine, who said the Marine Fishc ies Commission can "draw a crowd better than anvbody" in Brunswick County, was one of about a do/en people who urged the panel 10 keep mechanical harvesting out of local w aters. Rcdwinc said the commission has responded to the desires of local fishermen by prohibiting mechanical harvests here in the past, and added that the position of the fishermen hasn't changed. Opponents of mechanical longs said last week they damage the river bouom where they are used and give people who use them an unfair advantage because they're more efficient than hand methods. "We don't want it in Brunswick County," said An nie Smigicl. a Vamamtown shellfisherman and presi dent of Save Our Shellfish. "1 have stated thai time and time again." Robert Maullsby of Bolivia said hand longs have worked for generations and there's no need to change harvesting methods "We made it 20(1 years without me chanical harvesting," he said. "J don't think we need it now." Chuck Morse of Leland was one of several speakers who said patent tongs damage the river bottom and pre vent clams from grow ing back. "They ought to outlaw iiieiii completely up and down die eastern seaboard,'*' he said. Frank Hinshaw, a New Hanover County resident, compared using patent tongs to dropping a bomb on the bottom of a river. "The fishing industry looks bleak," he said. "Let's not make it any bleaker by doing more damage than we already arc." Gary Stiles, a clammer from Sunset Harbor, said ar eas where mcchanicai clamming is already allowed "My bottom line is that I see no reason, with the clam resource in the shape it is, to add pressure to it." ?William Hogarth N.C. Fisheries Director have been destroyed. "The reason they're coming down looking for new areas is because they've ruined what they have," he said. Although die proposal before the commission last week could have opened the doors for patent tongs in local waters, there was no intention of using die devices in Brunswick County, according to two people who spoke in favor of patent tongs at the hearing. Craig Schrcck, a Carteret County fisherman who helped initiate the proposal on patent tongs, said he would like to see the deep waters of Pamlico Sound opened to mechanical longs to gel at a resource there that's never been used. "1 don't want to bring anything down here ihat you guys don't want to sec," he lold the local crowd last week. Mechanical clam harvesting presently is allowed only four months a year. Schreck said allowing patent longs to operate all year would ensure a steady flow of clams that would help stabilize the topsy-turvy clam market. Jerry Schdl, exccuuvc director of the N.C. Fisheries Association, said opening Pamlico Sound to patent tongs would create a new fishery in the state that would help take mounting pressure off the commercial fishing industry. Schill said mechanical tongs may harm the marine ccology, but he added that outboard motors and car ex haust also can be harmful. "There's nothing that we do in this country that does not harm the environment," he said. Taylor Murder Trial Gets Under Way This Week Jury sclcclion was scheduled lo begin Tuesday in ihc firsi-dcgrcc murder trial of a man charged with killing three Brunswick County res idents in October 1988. Michael Anthony Taylor, of Belt on, S.C., who was 23 when arrested, is accused of murdering Marion "Cowboy" Meetze, 48, his wife Ginger Meetze, 32, and Mrs. Me etze's daughter by a previous mar riage, 10-ycar-old Michelle Arnold. Taylor also is charged with armed robbery in the theft of a gun that al legedly was taken from the Meetze home. The three were found Oct. 12, 1988 shot lo death in their partially burned home on N.C. 87, south of Maco. They had been shot by three different weapons, according to re cords on file in the officc of the clerk of Superior Court. Taylor was arrested nearly a year after the deaths, on Sept. 10, 1989 after one of the weapons used in the killings turned up in a South Caro lina pawn shop. Taylor reportedly purchased a gun-shop business from Mcctzc before the family moved from South Carolina to Brunswick County. The family reportedly i* l>e lieved to have been killed in a dis pute over the purchase of the busi ness. The state could seek the death penally or life imprisonment, but a statement by Superior Court Judge Giles R. Clark states that "the suite has indicated the death penalty will be sought." Anothei statement says the state intends to introduce expert testimo ny identifying one latent fingerprint found at the scene as belonging to Taylor. !n a Monday hearing, Superior Court Judge Wiley F. Bowcn heard a motion to bar from Taylor's trial testimony about conversations Tay lor had with law enforcement offi cers when he was arrested in South Carolina. rBrunszvicf<^IsCancCs Q HASomen's Center?, (P.5\. ComPI.E I E G YNECOLOGICAL AND Obstetrical Services new patients welcome Robert E. Hassjler, m.i>. f.a.c.o.g. Board Certified and Recertified #16 Medical Center Dr., Supply, 754-9166 Weather Normal After Heavy Rain It was wet, very wel, the week of Aug. 7-13. Over the seven-day period some parts of the South Brunswick islands rcccivcd 4.58 inchcs of rain, Shallottc Point mcteorolist Jackson Canady said Tuesday. That is well above the three-fourths inch of rain fall considered normal for this time of year. Canady recorded a high of 92 de grees, which occurred on the 12th. The low of 67 degrees occurred on the i 1 th. A daily average high of 88 de grees and a nightly average low of 71 degrees combined for a daily av erage temperature of 80 degrees, which Canady said is about normal. For the week ahead, Canady said the outlook calls for both rainfall and temperatures to average near normal. That means the area can ex pcct temperatures to range from about 70 degrees at night into the upper 80s during the daytime, with about three-fourths inch of rainfall. THE BRUNSWICKfeBEACON Established Nov. 1, 1962 Telephone 754-6890 Published Every Thursday At 4709 Main Street Shallotte, N.C. 28459 SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY One Year $10.30 Six Months S5.50 ELSEWHERE IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year S14.80 Six Months S7.85 ELSEWHERE IN U.S.A. One Year S15.95 Six Months C8.35 Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Shallotte, N.C 28459 USPS 777-780 STAFF PHOTO BY OOUG tl/TTE* (2k m n I n C Of TflQ \A/? I r? rvi rv* a r fXvfffU;? w f ? iw t i $t t ?i t The burned ship was expected to be removed from the Shallottc River this n eck. Fuel tanks and some rigging was salvaged Monday. Civietown VFD Celebrates (Continued Front Page I-A) to go back up and sec what they could do to help us." After some communicating back and forth, Nord and Clay Gregory, secretary, were invited to Maryland. They returned pulling a medium-size U-Haul trailer loaded with equipment. The welcomed cast-offs included 16 air packs, or portable breathing apparatus, plus six spare bottles; at least l.XiKt feet o( hose, plus nozzles and adapters; Indian pack hand pumps for fighting brush fires; foam sprayers; a ram tool for forcible entry: electrical cable and cord reels; rope; fire extinguishers; turn-out gear that can be used by Civictown's probationary members; and an oxygen set-up, the department's first. "They wanted to know what we needed and we told them 'a little bit of everything,'" Gregory said. "Now they want to know what else we need." Nord and Gregory said their visit to Frederick, the name of both a county and its scat of government in northern Maryland, was "two days of non-stop atten tion" from their Maryland counterparts. "They put us up in bunks at the station and treated us like royal VIPs," Gregory said. "It was like being part of a national organization, like a fraternity or some thing." Nord and Gregory observed on a number of fire calls and toured several stations in the area and the Frederick County 911 dispatch ccntcr. Their host was the 98-year-old Independent Hose Co.. of which Massey is a member. Through the efforts of Jack Flcischman vice president of the Frederick (County) Fire Association, other departments chipped in. These included Urbana VFD and United Engine Co. Some of the equipment, such as the air packs donned when entering smoke-filled structures, was sorely needed, Nord said. The department previously had only four packs, though the typically about 15 of the unit's 32 members can be expected to turn out at "They re better than Santa Clans. This stuff they' re discarding is better than the stuff'we've got now. And they' re going to bring us another pick-up load in a week or two." - Civietown Fire Chief A! Nord On gift of discarded equipment any given fire. The additional equipment could help upgrade the department's insurance rating, at least in areas served by fire hydrants, Nord said. If so, the result will be low er fire insurance premiums for some residents of the Civietown fire district, he said. "The more we upgrade, the lower the insurance," he continued. "I wish we could help people understand that, then perhaps they would he more willing to support us." Other pieces of equipment, such as the hose, may be parceled out or traded to some of the smaller or newer departments in the county that don't have as much as Civietown, such as Navassa or Grissctttown Longwood, Nord said. "We're going to weed through it and see." Nord says he also plans to come up with an estimate of how much the second-hand equipment is worth?and how long it would have taken the department to acquire equivalent gear through its annual budget. Brunswick County Will Use School Gyms As Evacuation Shelters Again This Year BY BOB IIORNE 4,418 people; north, where the three, including Lcland Cecil Logan, Brunswick Coumy emergency man- Middle, will accommodatc a total of ^,827*. and south, agement coordinator, has expressed concern about us- where the three designated schools will handle a total ing school gymnasiums as hurricane evacuation shel- of 3,338. tcrs, particularly after Hurricane Hugo tore the roofs In the west, the schools are West Brunswick, off some school gymnasiums that were used as evacu- which will accommodate 1,320, Logan said; Shallotlc ation shelters in the Charleston, S.C. area last year. Middle School, 1,080; Waccamaw Elementary, 1,000; New Hanover County reportedly declared gyms and Union Primary. 1.018. off limits as evacuation shelters after Hurricane Hugo In the north, the designated schools are: North hit and other county emergency management coordi- Brunswick High School, 1,320; Lincoln Primary, 4X9; nators, including Logan, expressed concern about us- and Lcland Middle as an overflow shelter, 1,018. ing gyms. In die south region, South Brunswick High School However, Monday Logan said the same nine will accommodate 1,320; South Middle School, school gymnasiums in Brunswick County that were 1,018; and Bolivia Elementary, 1,000, Logan said. used as hurricane evacuation shelters last year will be Logan said more staffers will be available at shcl uscd again this year, with Lcland Middle School ad- tcrs this year and that at least one Department of So ded as a "stand-by overflow shelter." cial Services representative and one Health Depart Logan said he would rather not use the gymnasi- ment representative will be available at each shelter, ums but added, "I don't have anything else in the depending on the size of the shelter. county that will accommodate a sufficient number of Logan met with shelter managers last Monday and people." went over the rules and regulations in preparation for The school gyms will be used again and, "if it the current hurricane season, he said. (weather) gets bad enough, they will be moved into Ginger DcBcrry is shelter coordinator for the four the hallways," Logan said. "That's the only other west region shelters, Barbara Lee is coordinator for placc to move them. We don't want them in cla;;:; the north region and Glcnda Carter for the south re rooms; they would be worse than the gyms." gion, Logan said. The schools arc divided into three regions; west. If a hurricane threatens, the shelters will be open where the four schools will accommodate a total of when an evacuation order is issued, Logan said. Kesicients Advised Not To Panic (Continued From Page 2-A) nonhcasicr, tides can get up a foot and a hall," as high or higher Uian the predicted 1 1/4-foot increase predicted for Dec. 2, Jarrett said. "The problem comes when you have an astronomical tide combined with wind effects. We will probably exceed this tide if it's not accompa nied by a storm several limes a year." As Jarrett said. The bottom line is watch the weather. 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