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STA^ PHOIO BY DOHI C GURGANUS Reign Nears End As the end of her reign as Miss Brunswick County approaches, Lisa Dale Young waves to the crowds along Shallotte's Main Street in the annual Christmas parade. Offices Set Holiday Hours County and municipal ofilccs will close on varying schedules for ihc Christmas and New Year's holidays. Brunswick County officcs will be closed Dec. 24-26 lor the Christmas holidays and Jan. 1 for New Year's Day. All 1 1 Brunswick County schools and the system's administrative of fices will be closed Dec. 20 through Jan. 1, resuming operation Jan. 2. Schools will dismiss at their usual time today (Thursday). Holden Beach Town Hall will be closed Dec. 24-26 and again Jan. 1. Shallottc, Ocean Isle Beach and Sunset Beach town halls will be closed Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 only. At Sunset Bcach garbage collection, which is usually every Wednes day, will be rescheduled to the Thursday after each holiday. Calabash Town Hall will be open from 9 a.m. until noon Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 27. It will be closed Dec. 25 and 26 and then Jan. 1. The garbage dump site on Persimmon Road will be closed each holi day Wednesday. The Shallottc Post Office will be open from 8:30 a.m. until noon Chrisunas Eve, Dec. 24, and New Year's Eve, Dec. 31. It will be closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day. BRUNSWICK WOODCRAFTER "Quality Furniture Restoration" Repairs, Staining, Refinishing, Caning, Wicker, Mirror Resilvering Hwy. 17 South ? (919)754-4552 P.O. Box 718 ? Shallotte, NC 28459 We know the business of gift giving! ?Pen & Pencil Gift Sets ?Desk Accessories ?Calculators ?Appointment Books & Calendars */k alt <%wt & fuitruMtA. TtWVUA LL3Ufr?m Julie , /!/ . . \/ Dave, Clara, (s'vU$14K44. - \y\Fran & Rhondal Brunswick Business Service , ? /-?? jl. ? ?? ? * ? Main St., Shallotte, 754-8300 ? Hwy. 211, Southport 457-4565 Brunswick Students Victims r. t ?? y I r#\V?C I I Of Milk Bid-Rigging Scheme It V SUSAN IISIIKK Students in the Brunswick County Schtxils were among those in more than 40 school systems m eastern and central North Carolina victim ized during the mid l<< late XOs hy a bid-rigging scheme that illegally in Hated milk prices. According to Jim (iulik, s|X)kesman lor the suite Attorney General's ollice. Pine State Cream ery the latest company to plead guilty in the hidrigging scandal supplied sonic ol the milk used hy Brunswick County Schools during the period in question, ll>X3 to IVKS. During the last five ol the years in question the school system pur chased about S400,(MX) ol milk, said Rebecca Brandon, the new director of child nutrition lor the Brunswick County Schools. At 1 cents a car ton, the school system bought an es timated 5 30 .(KM) hall-pint cartons ol milk a year for which it may may have been overcharged. As a resuit. the local school sys tem can expect to share at least in restitution to be paid by Pine Suite and one of its officials in a series of five annual payments. Whether oth er suppliers to the county were in volved in bid-rigging has not been announced. Gulik said the investiga tion is continuing and "involves more companies than action has al ready been taken against." He would not elaborate further. Pine Slate is the third company identified thus far as being party to the scheme. Other include Coble and Pet Inc. "They were all big players, bid ding and supplying a number of school districts," said Gulik. Pine State routinely "bid" for tnilk contracts in more than 40 coun ties, Gulik said, and supplied milk to all or pan of 22 school districts. In addition to Brunswick schools, area districts paying too much ft?r milk included New Hanover, Pender, Columbus and Duplin county schools and the Whilcville City Schools. According to the Attorney Gene ral's office, from 19X2 to 1988. a number ol dairy companies illegally circumvented competitive bidding laws by splitting the state into non competitive territories. During that lime period three companies supplied a part of the county schools' milk needs. Coble Dairy, one ol the compa ny's already identified as having been involved in the bid-rigging scheme, supplied nulk to three schools m the southern attendance district, South Brunswick High, South Brunswick Middle and Southpurl Klemcntary. Maola supplied milk to Bolivia Elementary, North Brunswick High. Lcland Middle and Lincoln Primary schools. Pine State Creamery ser viced West Brunswick High, Shallotte Middle, Waccamaw Elementary and Union Primary. "It's going to be interesting," said Ms. Brandon. "Coble was file low bidder during all those years, but we were still being served by Pine State and Maola loo." Since joining ihe school system administrative staff earlier this year, Ms. Brandon said milk lias been her "nemesis". "We've had to send ions of paper work to Raleigh on it," she said. "Any records we could find." The earliest records, for the years 1981 through 1983, were no longer available. A statement filed in Wake County Superior Court by the At torney General's office indicates Pine State joined the conspiracy in EVERYDAY FIDDLER'S SPECIAL Includes lish, shrimp, deviled crab, clam strips, French fries, cole slaw and hush puppies. CtQ QC 1 i>0.y O GET 1 FREE SEAFOOD ? DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS SANDWICH PLATES ? SALADS SUNDAY LUNCH BUFFET 11:30-2 P.M. SANDFIDDLER ! SEAFOOD RESTAURANT f 1 1WY. 1 3() EAST ? SIIAIXOTTE ? 754-8 1G8 b I9K3. Two Pine Stale officials, Ben jamin W Kilgore, president, and Newell Vance Williams, vice presi dent of sales, pleaded guilty to one charge each ol conspiring to rig bids. They will be sentenced later by a judge. Ollicials ol Coble Dairy have pleaded guilty in federal court to bid rigging charges. Pet Inc., a St. Louis-based corpo ration, pleaded guilty to bid rigging, but at the time no longer employed the individuals who had been in volved in the scheme. Pet Inc. sold its dairy operation in 19XS to Land O'Sun, which curlier this year tiled lor reorganization un der a Chapter II bankruptcy pro ceeding in Jacksonville, I la , said Gulik. "The company has been sending notices to the schools with claims." said Gulik. "We will be proceeding W illi whatever action can be taken. The stale expects lo lilc additional charges against other companies as the two-year-old investigation con tinues. The Attorney General's chose to negotiate pleas with the companies involved rather than taking the cases lo trial becausc it appeared "thai we would do as well with a settlement as we could by going into court and trying to prove it," said Gulik. "We would not have been able to colic. 1 all the damages we could prove." (iulik said ihe stale feels the com pany is able to pay and has agreed n> pay through settlement as much in restitution as the suite could ii.tve obtained otherwise. "hi addition a guilt plea saves us the trouble and risk of trying to prove it to a jury." he said. "And we have witnesses who have agreed to cooperate in our investigation." I'me State has agreed to pay re Mi union to the victimized school t ol S350.<KH), with the first annual pay ment ol S70.IHX) made Monday, with interest accruing on the pay ments not yet made. Also, Kilgoie t separately paying SIM).(XX) m icsti tution, m annual payments ol SMi ux) each under identical terms. I'ine State is the school system's current milk supplier, submitting low bid that resulted in a 5-cent ie duction per half-pint carton in the price students pay lor milk. No school ollicials arc suspected ol involvement in the bid-riggini' scheme. 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