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Driver Dies Car Accident A Virginia man v >is killed Satyran day when the cai h. was frivinj? |K,;ir off the toad and - rue' a 'v Bclvillc. ?ng*u, 35. Herman Ma itv * K.n ancr'hc losi of Alexandria ? N c. 133 about control of hi- ./ ()| Belville. Slate seven miles -hh vc|| reported. Trooper P.B IS traveling north on Kumanjiai, .,, ?,c ran nn (jlc nght N.t 133 v )M conir0| mU| crossed shoulder, noulder before striking a the lett j.on. He was wearing a seal tree he.jfH. (,nK. t,| jhc 112.S a.m. ac bell atf HarvelI reported. c'1' 'jt veil's report indicated tlv uiver was exceeding a safe speed at the time of the accident, traveling an estimated 55 mph while round ntg a sharp curve, he reported. There were no other passengers in the 1991 Toyota, which was regis tcred to the National Car Rental Co. in Wilmington. Damage was estimated at SIO.OOO The death brings the total to 1 > for the year as a result of highway accidents in Brunswick County. Through November of last year, tiiere were 14 deaths from tralfic ac cidents recorded in Brunswick County, said Ruby Oaklev High way Patrol spokesperson. "We're one under at this point, but this is a bad weekend coming up," said Ms. Oakley, in reference lo the Thanksgiving holiday week end. AnotK-r accident Sunday near Calabash has Ivcn blamed on gnats I wo people escaped scnous in iu* ics in that accident aftci a Shal totte man swerved to avoid hitting some goats on RPR 1 MX) (Calabash Road), causing his car to spin out of Control ami overturn. Jason Karl Bellamy, 16. told Trooper J V Dove that he ran oil the right shoulder and lost control ol his l4>X7 Datsun alter the goals ran onto the road Bellamy and a passenger in Ins v.ar. Tonya Bennett. 17. ol Ash were taken to The Brunswick Hospital in Supply with minor injuries. Damage was estimated at S3,(XH) in the 4 45 p m. accident. No charg es were filed. There were two other accidents last week th.it involved cars which overturned, hut no serious injuries were reported in either. One ol those accidents ivcurrcd early Saturday about seven miles south ol Roliv ia on I S. 17. Roosevelt lugene Mackcy, 20, ol Camp Johnson, escaped serious in juries alter his 11>8X Subaru ran off the right shoulder, skidded out of control, overturned several times and struck a culvert, reported Trooper TAV Caulder. Mackcy "s car came to rest upright in the median, the report stated. The driver was taken to The Brunswick Hospital with minor injuries. Damage was estimated at S.\(KX> iii the 4 a.m. accident Mackcy was charged with careless anil reckless driving. the re|x<rt slates. A Wilmington woman also es v.ijVvi serious injuries alter utc ear she was driving overturned on l!.S. 74 76 at Sandy Creek. Sharon Kay Smith, 24, was trav eling west when her car ran off the left shoulder and onto the median, overturned anil came to rest in the eastbound lane. I rooper Caulder re ported. Ms. Smith was charged w ith driv ing without an operator's license and with driving while impaired, the report suites. Damage was estimated at S3,(XX) to Ms. Smith's 1989 Ford in the 7 ,S p.m. accident Friday. Ms. Smith was not taken to the hospital. In another accident early Friday a North Myrtle Beach, S C. woman was charged w ith careless and reek less driving after the car she was driving ran off the road and struck a utility pole near Calabash. Ashlei Elizabeth White, I*), was traveling north on RPR 1163 (Old Georgetown Road) when she ran olT the right shoulder while rounding a curve, crossed the left shoulder and struck the pole, according to High way Patrol reports. Damage was estimated at S3.(XX) to Ms. While's 14>(H) Plymouth in the 3:45 a.m. accident. She was tak en to The Brunswick Hospital w ith minor injuries. False Siren Alarms Spark Panic BY TKRRY POI'K Residents in Caswell Beach anil Southpori began packing to leave iheir homes early Saturday morning for what they thought was an emer gency nuclear evacuation. The sirens were false alarms instead. Investigators are trying to deter mine why two of the sirens used to signal a possible nuclear accident at the Carolina Power and Light Company's Southport plant sudden ly starting blaring around 4:10 a.m. Saturday. "A number of people in South port and Caswell Beach were put into a panicky situation," said Cecil Logan. Brunswick County's Emerg ency Management coordinator. "At this time, we don't know what hap pened." The sirens are strategically locat ed atop utility poles around die CP&L plant to warn residents to leave in the event of an emergency The Brunswick County Sherifl "s Department and Logan's office own the only two units that can activate the sirens. They were both locked away when the sirens began sound ing on their own Saturday, Logan said. The sheriff's department and l.ong Reach Police Department he pan taking an estimated 500 10 700 calls Irom nervous residents Satur da> morning. Logan said. One siren at Southport made a lull rotation lor three minutes while another unit at Caswell Beach con tinued its rotation and siren lor 30 minutes. Logan said. In the event of an actual emergency, the sirens will sound and residents are then ad vised to tune in to radio sunions which operate under the Emergency Broadcasting System for further in structions. When residents turned their ra dios on Saturday morning, there were no F.BS notices until an hour had passed. One was finally issued at 5:26 a.m. and again at 5:36 a.m. to tell residents the sirens were false alarms. That emergency message was or dered by Brunswick County Board of Commissioners Chairman Gene Pinkerton. who lives on Oak Island, where Caswell Beach is located. Logan said he rushed to the sher iff's department around 4:20 a.m. and made contact with CF'&I. offi cials to make sure there was no ac tual emergency. Under normal pro cedures, an I BS notification would be ordered within 10 minutes of sounding the sirens and local radio stations would immediately inter rupt their programming to broadcast the emergency information. "There are a lot of rumors going around that the county set the sirens off,** Logan said. "That's not true. The county did not set them off." CP&L officials cannot activate the sirens hut instead must contact Logan's office in the event of an emergency. The unit that malfunctioned at Caswell Beach is one that look a di rect lighuung hit during the summer and had to be repaired. Logan said. "The problem is finding out what set it off," he added. "Wc don't know whether it was a ship on the same frequency or what." Investigators are checking to see what boat traffic might have been in the area at the time the sirens began sounding. Logan said he is concerned that such false alarms will break the public's confidence in the system. "Thai's not what the sirens arc designed for," Logan said. "The continuous sounding of il made more people aware of it." Opponents Stop Sunset Beach Bridge (Continued From Page 1-A) should they lose. Me did not, how ever, rule out the possibility of legal action of some son against the SB TA. Before living adjacent to the pon toon bridge for two years (the house was taken by the suite in its right of way acquisition for the new span). Barber supported and was highly visible in the SBTA's effort to save it. Now he's convinced a new bridge is needed to provide safe transportation to and from the is land and to accommodate increased boat and vehicle traffic. "1 think that anybody who watch es it as closely as we did for two years would come to the same con clusion," he said. "The island's only 65 percent developed and the devel opment won't stop because there isn't a bridge." Meanwhile, he said, it's hard for police and other emergency person nel to protect and serve the island's summer residents and visitors. While Barber is convinced the dispute over the bridge will be re newed in earnest following Brill's ruling, one long-time opponent is hoping otherwise. 'The People Have Spoken' "It's been 11 years, but justice is served," said Warren "Bud" Knapp of Calabash, a non-resident proper ty owner at Sunset Beach and chair man of the SBTA's bridge commit tee. He said he felt the debate over ihe bridge should be over now. "I think the people have spoken and this should he the end of it," said Knapp. "It seems so strange thai the taxpayers have to spend our HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE BRUNSWICK$BEACOI\l POST OFFICE BOX 2558 SHALLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA 28459 FOR AWARD-WINNING NEWS COVERAGE ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL: Sr. Citizen In Brunswick County J6 30 j5.30 N.C Sales Tax .32 .27 Postage Charge 3 68 3.68 TOTAL 10.30 9.25 Elsewhere in North Carolina jd 30 j5.30 N.C. Sales Tax .32 27 Postage Charge 8 18 8.18 TOTA L 14.80 13.75 Outside North Carolina j6 30 J5.30 Postage Charge 9.65 9.65 TOTAL 15.95 14.95 Complete And Return To Above Address Name Address City, State Zip hard-earned money to try and stop the state from spending our money to build a bridge that very lew peo ple want," he said. Regardless of what happens next, Monday's decision may be prece dent-setting. According to Maxwell, research prior to filing of the suit failed to turn up any case in which citizens had succeeded in stopping construc tion a bridge or roadway. There had been several successful suits filed under the National Environmental Protection Act, but they were more general, environmental cases. "From a personal and profession al standpoint this has got to be one of the most satisfying decisions in which I have been involved during my 24 years as an attorney," said Maxwell. I THE BRUNSWICK ^BEACON Established Nov. 1, 1962 Telephone 754-6890 Published Every Thursday At 4709 Main Street Shallotte, N.C. 28459 SUBSCRIPTION RAlES IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY One Year S10.30 Six Months S5.50 ELSEWHERE IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year S14.80 Six Months S7.85 ELSEWHERE IN U.S.A. One Year $15.95 Six Months S8.35 Second class postaqe paid at the Post Office in Shallotte, N C 28459 USPS 777-780 AT SBAIJiOTTE POINT BRING HOME THEftBEACON On Sale At VILLAGE MART STAFF PHOTO BV SUSAN USHER Turnout Was Light Turnout was light last Thursday night fur the 12 mini-workshops Union Primary School offered to parents as part of its American Education Week emphasis. Above. Robert and Jacky Horn of Shell Point iforeground} check out a spelling program in the computer lab. "We thought we'd come see what the computers were about. We're considering getting one for Christmas," said Mrs. Horn. Their sons. Josh and Jeremy, are in second grade and kindergarten respectively. County Votes To Keep Its Six Recycling Centers Until June BY TERRY POPE Bush's Recycling will be allowed to continue to operate six recycling centers in Brunswick County until June 30. 1991. Brunswick County Commission ers voted 4-1 Monday night to keep paying the Florence, S.C., company to provide recycling trailers at six sites for the remainder of the fiscal year. That move will put on hold con tract negotiations with Waste Industries of Wilmington, which had hoped to open and operate per manent recycling centers in the county for S42A per month for each of its rccommcndcd nine locations. The existing recycling trailers arc staffed mostly by volunteers in Southport, Long Beach, Carolina Shores, Sunset Beach, Holden Beach and Boiling Spring Lakes. When a trailer is full. Bush's Recycling pulls it away and re places it with an empty one at a cost of S200 each to the county. Volunteers at the sites collect glass, plastic, aluminum and paper. By July 1, 1991, each county in North Carolina must have a recy cling program in place. By 1993, countics must be recycling 25 per cent of their solid waste, as mandat ed by the state, in an effort to re duce the amount of material arriv ing at landfills. Commissioner Grace Beasley's surprise motion came while the board was discussing appoinuncnts to the Brunswick County Keep America Beautiful Board. Board member Benny Ludlum voted against her motion. "I'd rather not vote on that issue with this being the last meeting," Ludlum said. "I'd feci uncomfort able voting on that." For both Ludlum and Ms. Beasley, it was their last regular board meeting. Ms. Beasley will be replaced on the board at the Dec. 3 meeting by Donald Shaw of Leland, who defeated Ms. Beasley in her bid for re-election. Ludlum, who chose not to run for re-election, will be replaced by Jerry Jones, now the mayor of Shallottc. George Bush, owner of Bush's Recycling of Florence, S.C., had al so asked for a three-year contract with die county. County Attorney David Clcgg said a clause would al low the county to break the contract with a 180-day notice. Commissioners did not take ac tion on that contract. Clcgg has been authorized by commissioners to pay the company on a month-to month basis using money from the county's contingency fund. Continuing with the present pro gram in place, Ms. Beasley said, wouid save the county money. The new board will be able to study the issue more before adopting the 1991 budget. "Everything will slay in place," Ms. Beasley said. "They'll have their containers. To me it appears to be a savings to the county than to change in the middle of the year and, in my opinion, become more expensive to the county." Commissioner Kelly Holden at tempted to amend her motion to in clude adding a recycling trailer for the town of Shallottc. Ms. Beasley said Leland also needs a trailer but that the board should avoid approv ing requests from individual towns. Instead, the board needs to work with representatives from those communities to decide how to pro vide them with recycling centers in the future, she said. Mayor Jones, who attended the meeting, said the lown of Shallotlc has agreed to pay for its recycling trailer once a site is found. "Shallotte's going to take carc of it for now," Jones told the hoard. "But we're hoping the county will pick that up. It'll probably be used by as many county people as it will by residents of Shallotlc." Ms. Bcaslcy's motion also in cluded the appointment of seven new members to the Brunswick County Keep America Beautiful Board. They were Mary L. Russ, county home economics agent; Bill Turner, of the Brunswick County Schools; Susan Green, a Brunswick Community College science in structor; Leo Hcwctl, county land fill operator; William Potis of Shallotlc Point, a member of the Shallotlc recycling committee; Marvia Warring, a recycling volun teer from Sunset Beach; and Jane Gilbert, of the Lclat^d Women's Civic Organization. Troubled Bids C'lcgg told the board Monday that the county has underestimated the cost for expanding the sewer system for additions to the county jail, the new Department of Social Services building and luturc Emergency Operations Center. The county had budgeted SI60,(XX), but the low bid came in at S287,(XX), Clegg said. Carmichacl Construction has since negotiated a S276.411 price with the county, which was accept ed by commissioners Monday. Additional money will be taken from the capital reserve fund to pay the difference. The project will take four months to complete, Clegg said. The board also voted to begin ad vertising for bids in newspapers outside of Brunswick County be cause of the need for competitive prices. The board has put on hold the purchase of 12 cars for the sher iff s department because only one bid was submitted to the county. The county will rcadvertisc for bids. Board members couldn't agree Monday on whether to purchase a Caterpillar for the county landfill at a cost of $77,966. Operation Services Director Darry Somcrsett was not present to answer commis sioners' questions on why his letter of recommendation showed an in crease in price on the machinery since the bids were opened. The original bids showed a price of Sfi*) 47Q_ said Board Chairman Gene Pinkerton. "It's the same piece of equipment with a different price lag on it the second go around," Pinkerton charged. "That don't look g<xxl lo me." Ludlum then withdrew his mo lion to purchase the equipment. Commissioner Frankic Rabon said he was also confused by the bids. Finance Director Lithia Hahn, who presented the information to the board, said Somcrsett would have to explain ihc difference in priccs. Clegg also didn't know how the price increased. "I got the same memo you did," he told the board. Ludlum said it was time lo "start pointing the linger at somebody." "If you'll go back and look at the bidding, that's the way it's been," Ludlum said. "They're writing specs where it just hits one compa ny. I hat's what's been going on." Somcrsett had recommended that the board approve ihc purchase of the 120G Caterpillar from Gregory Poole Equipment of Lcland. The board did vole to accept low bids on seven other county vehicles, which included a suition wagon and seven trucks. Other Business In other business, commissioners: ? Appointed F.ugene Thompson, by a 4-1 vote, to the Dosher Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees to fill the spot being vacated by Doug Lcdgctt, the county's new Emergency Medical Services coor dinator who resigned from the board. Pinkerton voted for Paul Middleton. The board tabled a list of other appointments, including five to the Brunswick Hospital Board of Trustees, two to the Industrial Facility Advisory Board and one to the Nursing Home Advisory Board. ? Declared the week Nov. 25-Dcc. 1 as Brunswick County Home Health Care Week to coincide with Na tional Home Health Care Week, as requested by Comprehensive Home Health Care. ? Voted to file legal papers against owners of two lots on the Holden Beach causeway in Spccial Assessment District (SAD) 7 to de clare "imminent domain" over two easements needed to install water lines. Appraisals list the 10-foot easement properties as valued at S2,04() and SI,8(X), Clcgg said. Negotiations have been unsuccess ful with the owners, he said. ? Agreed to give the towns of Lcland and Navassa one patrol car each from the vehicles being rc placcd by the sheriff's department. ? Heard from Ted Bigford of Bigford Masonry, who asked com missioners to help him recover the more SI3,(XX) he says contractors still owe him from work completed at Brunswick Community College. Bigford said he realized his com plaint is with the contractor, but that he is seeking the county's "moral support." ? Accepted a list of elderly tax ex emptions that was overlooked by the tax officc, reported Tax Administrator Boyd Williamson. Elderly persons who did not list personal property on a listing form did not receivc their exemption when the county switched to a per manent real estate listing system last year. He said 415 taxpayers fell into that category. Lincoln Honors Select Students Teachers at Lincoln Primary School in Lcland each select a stu dent of the month for special recog nition. Selection is based upon excellent citizenship and/or outstanding aca demic performance. The students receive spccial priv ileges and arc honored with a video and popcorn party in their honor at the end of the month. Students for October were, by grade: Achcllc Robbins, Thcrcssia Ballard, Brandon Price, Reginald Weston. Holly Heyer, Takcyia Perk ins and Carina Radlord, kindergart en; Jonathan McAllister, Michael Cooper. Whitney Mitchell Zacharv Desjarlais, Scbrina Millikcn, Chris' tina Burlcy, Marquitc Goodman and Feniccc McKoy, first grade; Also, Kristcn Long, Travis Gil lette. Allyson Hover, Stephen Gra ham, Kelly Frink, Lakish'a Graham and Bessie Hollis, second grade; and Sarah Meshaw, Scott Hcwctt Joye Davis. Elizabeth Cook, Came Rife, Amanda Rowc, Michael John ston, Harold Andrews and Shcvia Robbins, third crade.
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