Red Cross Presence In Brunswick Taking On New Look As Of July 1
II Y Sl'SAN USIIKR
The American Red Cross should bccome more visi
ble and more activc in Brunswick County in coming
months, says Joann Frazier, manager of the Cape Fear
Chapter in Wilmington.
As of July 1, by action of the national Red Cross
board of governors, Brunswick and Pender counties
have twen merged into the Cape
Fear Chapter, which previously in
cluded only Wilmington and New
Hanover County. That means the
agency's scrvicc area will be the
same as that of its major (50 per
cent) funding source, the Cape Fear
Area United Way.
Until July 1, Brunswick County
had its own, though inactive. Red
Cioss charter. Cape Fear Chapter
provided limited services here, pri
marily disaster relief, blood services and scrv icc to mil
itary personnel and their families.
That will change. The county is now eligible for full
services and full involvement in the chapter.
An active effort is under way to recruit and train lo
cal Red Cross volunteer leadership, to establish a satel
lite chapter office here and to give Brunswick County
residents a voice in chapter decision-making and sup
port.
"We want to build a cadre of Brunswick County vol
unteers so they will feel like this is their chaplcr," said
Mrs. Fra/ier, including board members and other lead
ers. "We don't want families here to feel like someone
else is making decisions for them."
Cecil Logan of Seaside, Brunswick County emergen
cy management coordinator, and Ralph Parker of
Southport, a UNC-Wilmington administrator, were ap
pointed to the Cape Fear Chapter board in July. Two
more county residents, most likely including a represen
tative of a county hospital, will be appointed in the near
future.
STAFF PHOTO BY TONIA TREST
Fire Destroys Home
A tree limb hit by lightning started this Aug. 6 fire at the home of Dick and Milly Rider, 508 Saltaire
Square N? Calabash. Mrs. Rider said she was at home eating lunch when Jim Mawhinney, her neigh
bor and a Calabash volunteer firefighter, called and reported the fallen limb. Calabash, Sunset and
North Myrtle Beach Fire Departments responded. The home was a total loss, according to Brunswick
County Fire Marshal Cecil Ij)gan (above center).
Depending on the outcome of its fall campaign, the
United Way anticipates opening a satellite oflicc in
Brunswick County. The oflicc hopes to provide admin
istrative space for full United Way agencies located in
the county, including the Red Cross, said Mrs. Frazicr.
Also dependent on the outcomc of the campaign is
the Cape Fear Chapter's hope of hiring a staff person to
work in Brunswick County four days a week and
Pender County one day a week. Until then, stall will
commute as needed.
Meanwhile, Cape Fear Chapter plans to install an in
coming WATS line so that calls to its Wilmington office
will be toll-free from anywhere in Brunswick County.
Calls are answered and responded to 24 hours a day.
Classes in health and safety can be formed with as
few as six students, cither hy an instructor or on public
demand. Topics include disaster relief, CPR, lifesaving
and a onc-on-one program for parents called infant on
monitor.
Mrs. Frazicr said provision of scrvicc in Brunswick
County has increased steadily in recent years. For in
stance, in 1986 300 health and safety classes were pro
vided, primarily to industries. This past year, nearly MX)
classes were held and more than 5,000 certificates is
sued.
In 1986-87 the Red Cross Blood Scrvicc provided
499 units to Brunswick County's two hospitals, com
pared to 8(X) to 900 (his past year, though collections
have fallen off recently.
Red Cross staff or volunteers responded to 25 single
family fires and provided firefighters at three forest
Tires with refreshments. They responded to a tornado
that touched down in Leland. Lillic King of Lcland, the
Red Cross' disaster relief coordinator for the county,
h;ul worked with Logan and was prepared to res|x>nd if
Hurricane Lily threatened.
The agency provided S 14,235 in disaster relief finan
cial assistance last year, buying changes of clothing and
providing temporary shelter and rent advances for
burned-out families and others.
Also the agcncy provided 485 service men or women
or their families with $4,105 in financial assistance last
year. This frequently took the form of providing trans
portation funds.
During hurricanes the Red Cross operates nine shel
ters in the county, working with the Brunswick County
Department of Social Services. In the past the National
Red Cross picked up the tab, since Brunswick County
was not part of an activc chapter.
ReccnUy groups from two county churches have
completed an "introduction to disaster" coursc anil have
responded to local emergencies. These include a apart
ment fire at Calabash that put 18 people out of their
homes.
In that incident the Red Cross has already provided
more than S9.CXX) in assistance, including temporary
housing, rent advances, clothing and fotxl vouchers.
Want to get involved? Prospective Red Cross volun
teers should call Mrs. Frazier at 919-762-2683 those
interested in courses should call Pam Thompson, direc
tor of health and safety, at the same Wilmington num
ber.
Civietown Wreck Injures Six Sunday
Six people were injured Sunday
evening in an accident on N.C. 130
at Civiclown.
Gloria White Brown, 23, of
Shallottc, was traveling cast on
N.C. 130 about 2.6 miles cast of
Shallottc when she attempted to
make a left turn onto Civietown
Road (S.R. 1132), Trooper T.W.
! Cauldcr of the N.C. Highway Patrol
reported.
Ms. Brown's 1982 Ford pulled
into the path of a 1990 Toyota driv
en by Becky Elaine Reaves, 18, of
Supply, Cauldcr said. Ms. Reaves
was traveling west on N.C. 130.
Cauldcr chargcd Ms. Brown with
an unsafe movement violation. Ms.
Brown received minor injuries
along with three passengers in her
car, Louise Clcmmons, 60, of
Supply; Gloria Formyduval, 1 3; and
Jessica Brown, 7.
A fourth passenger in the Brown
vehicle, Christy Formyduval, 12,
and Ms. Reaves each received class
D injuries, which are serious but not
incapacitating.
The injured were taken to The
Brunswick Hospital in Supply fol
lowing the 5:55 p.m. accident.
Damage was listed at SI, 200 to
the Brown vehicle and S 1 ,900 to the
Reaves vehicle.
Car Overturns
An Ash man was charged with
exceeding a safe speed early
Sunday after his car ran off the road
and overturned about 8.7 miles
north of Shallouc.
Timothy Conard Marlowe, 27,
was driving on Big Neck Road
(S.R. 1335) at a high rate of speed
when his 1988 Chevrolet ran off the
right shoulder, crossed ihc highway,
struck a ditchbank and tolled over,
said State Trooper B.L. Wilkes.
Marlowe received class B in
juries and was taken to The
Brunswick Hospital following the 4
a.m. accident.
Damage was listed at S3,5(X).
No Injuries
In another accident early Sunday,
a driver escaped injury when his car
ran off of U.S. 17 about 2.2 miles
west of Calabash.
Edward Eugene Hulscy, 21, of
Jackson Springs, was traveling
north when his 1989 Mitsubishi ran
off the shoulder, traveled out of
control and struck a ditchbank, re
ported Trooper B D. Barnhardt.
Hulscy was charged with careless
and rccklcss operation in the 4:15
a.m. accident, Barnhardt reported
Damage was listed at S3,(XX).
NCSU Scientists Study Ailing Oyster Colonies
BY PAM SMITH
NCSU Information Services
Where have all the oysters gone?
Researchers in the N.C. State
University College of Veterinary
Medicine are taking an interdisci
plinary approach to confront the
complex causes of the state's roller
coastering oyster harvests.
The state Division of Marine
Fisheries reported a 52,271 -bushel
harvest for 1990 ? in contrast to av
erage yearly harvests of more than
90,000 bushels between 1980 and
1989.
Epidemiologist Dr. Jay F. Levine
will examine whether seasonal
changcs in water temperature alter
the prevalence of disease-causing
organisms; electron microscopist
Dr. Michael J. Dykstra is studying
the physiology of oysters; and im
munologist Dr. Suzanne Kennedy
Stoskopf will study whether
changes in water salinity alter oys
ter defense mechanisms.
From the standpoint of the oyster
industry, Levine said the prospec
tive economic benefit of the re
search is obvious, since a major
goal will be to boost the oyster pop
ulation.
The scientists say their research
will be enhanced by the completion
later this year of a 1,550-square
foot facility on the College of
Veterinary Medicine camnus.
Funded by the N.C. Biotechnology Center
and the veterinary college, the building will fea
ture six self-contained, closed-circulation sys
tems.
These systems will enable the research team
members to maintain oyster populations under
controlled conditions over extended periods of
time.
In addition to oysters, other marine inverte
brates such as shrimp, crab and lobsters could
be maintained in the facility foi other research
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NCSV researchers want to know learn what can be done to aid the
ailing oyster and produce a more reliable Tar Heel harvest.
studies.
Team members of the oyster study will inves
tigate the seasonal occurrence of oyster dis
eases, observe the animals' responses to para
sites and explore the possibility that high tem
perature and high salinity may predispose the
oyster to high mortalities.
Along the northeastern United States coast,
researchers say temperature and salinity have
been found to influence the impact of parasites
on oysters.
Kenncdy-Stoskopf said veteri
nary research has historically ad
dressed population problems in ani
mals from the perspective of many
disciplines, or specialty areas.
"With oysters, there is not a
wealth of data to rely on...," she
said. Because of that, it is necessary
for the researchers "to step back a
pace" and look at the overall pic
ture.
Levinc said, "We arc dealing
with a complex problem, and one
investigator may not be capable of
understanding its full scope."
Michael D. Marshall, a marine
biologist with Marine Fisheries,
agrees that the scientists arc dealing
with a complcx issue ? one with
broad economic and environmental
implications.
"Different areas have been af
fecied by the oyster diseases in the
last three years," Marshall said.
Disease-causing parasites kill oys
, ters by their sheer numbers.
The current work of the NCSU
(research team is an extension of
1989 studies Levine conducted with
Dykstra and other colleagues from
the NCSU College of Veterinary
Medicine.
For that study, investigators sur
veyed 36 North Carolina coastal
sites to determine the prevalence of
two diseases that affect oysters on
ly.
Both diseases ? dermo and MSX ? were as
sociated with oyster deaths in the Chesapeake
and Delaware bays, and were found in oysters
from North Carolina's coastal sounds.
Lcvinc says the answers to the ailing oyster
population problem in North Carolina will come
slowly.
"I sec this as open-ended research, which we
hope will lead toward a greater understanding
of the factors associated with the decline in oys
ter abundance," he said.
Patron To Present UNC-W Major Gift
A "major" gifi from a Brunswick County resident to the University of
North Carolina at Wilmington was to be announced Wednesday at a
12:30 p.m. meeting of the University's Board of Trustees.
Mimi Cunningham, spokeswoman for UNC-W, said details of the pre
sentation would not be available until Wednesday, after the Beacon's
Tuesday publication deadline.
"However, 1 can tell you that it's a major gift," she said. "It is very
important to us."
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