Shallotte Man Reports Robbery At Seaside
BY TKRRY POPE
A Shallotlc man said he was
robbed of $200 at gunpoint late
Friday near the Seaside community
at Sunset Beach.
The victim told Brunswick
County Sheriff's Deputy Phii Bryant
that a man got into his car outside of
Joyce's drill around midnight and
said. "Let's go party."
He then drove to the Seaside area
where the passenger demanded that
he stop the car. The suspect then
pointed a gun at the victim's head,
pulled the keys from the ignition and
demanded hi:; wallet, Bryant report
cd.
Hie suspect look the keys, S200
inside the wallet and fled on foot,
the report states.
I he case remains under investiga
tion.
In other reports on tile at the sher
iff's department:
?Two 1 1 -year-old boys were re
ferred to juvenile services after a
Wilson's Supermarket store manager
in Lcland caught them shoplifting
Sunday morning. The suspects
placed shopping bags in a cart, gath
ered items from the shelves and left
without paying for them, a manager
told Deputy Steve Mason.
The parents of one youth, who
lives in Lcland, were called. Mason
said. The other boy was visiting
their home. The Leland youth's step
father retained custody of both boys.
CRIME REPORT
Neither had a history of bchavorial
problems, said Mason.
?Warrants were filed against a
Route 4, Suppiy, man accused of
breaking into a home at Fisherman's
Village, where a man was shot in
both hands and a leg during a do
mestic dispute Sunday night.
Detective Donnell Marlowe filed
warrants for first-degree burglary,
assault with a deadly weapon inflict
ing serious injury, communicating
threats and two counts of isssui!
against a suspect whose name has
been withheld pending an arrest.
The man allegedly fired a .22-cal
iber handgun several times at the
victim and then Peat his girlfriend in
Ihc face with his fists. Deputy J.R.
harp Jr. reported.
A neighbor drove the victims to
the Holdcn Bcach Police Depart
ment. Coastline Volunteer Rescue
Squad transported the man to The
Brunswick Hospital for treatment.
?Two vending machines were
torched open at Nucon Inc. on U.S.
74-76 in Lcland Sunday, reported
Mason. He discovered two doors
open at the plant around 12:15 a.m.
Money boxes from the machines,
cach containing an undetermined
amount of coins, were stolen.
?An estimated SI. 939 in guns, saws
and tools were taken from a work
shed at a home in the Oscar Long
Subdivision ai Leland between Dec.
26 and 28, reported Mason. A door
had been forced open.
?Two televisions, a microwave and
telephone were stolen from a
Sparrow Lane home at Shell Point
between Dec. 2 and 29, reported
Earp. Damage was S40 to a broken
window.
?Tools and auto parts worth S2,810
were stolen from DuBoisc's Garage
on N.C. 130 west of Shallottc
Saturday, reported Bryant.
?Damage was estimated at SI 35 to
a mailbox and yard lights at a Sea
Breeze Estwlcs hor*11* between Mcv
29 and Dec. 28, reported Earp.
Vandals had also sprayed paint on a
storage building.
?Vandals ransacked a home in Sea
Aire Estates on Seashore Road, but
took no items once breaking inside,
reported Earp. Damage was listed at
SHK) to a door that had been pried
open.
?A newspaper stand owned by the
Wilmington Star News was taken
from the County Line Qwik Stop on
U.S. 74-76 near Dclco, reported
Deputy William Hewctt. The box is
valued at S250.
?Someone drove a vehicle onto the
putting green at Bricklanding
Plantation, causing SI, (XX) in dam
age Friday, reported Deputy J.M.
Adams. The car made circles on the
13th hole adjacent to N.C. 179.
?Vehicles were used to rip open a
utility trailer door at a construction
site at the Lcland Industrial Park '
Friday, reported HcwetL Stolen from
Miller Building Corp. were $1,500
in tools and wiring. Damage was
S2.000.
?Vandals took golf carts from a
shed at St James Plantation on N.C.
211 and damaged a putting green
Friday, reported Deputy Cathy
Hamilton. Damage was listed at
$2,000 to the carts.
?Someone shot through a window
in the PineclilT subdivision on N.C.
87 at Winnabow last Thursday, Dec.
26, causing $150 in damage, report
VM I IV ?> Vll.
?A car parked at Josh's Car Wash
on llolden Beach Road (N.C. 130)
had a window broken Friday, caus
ing S250 in damage, reported Ms.
Hamilton.
? l"hicvcs tried to break into a car
(larked at a home on Long Beach
Road Dec. 24, causing $300 in dam
age to a electric window motor, Ms.
Hamilton reported. The car was also
scratched and some window mold
ing damaged.
?Someone stole $2,600 in stereo
equipment from a car parked on the
shoulder of U.S. 74-76 near Bclvillc
Saturday, Mason reported. Both side
windows iiad been broken, causing
$825 in damage.
?A video recorder was stolen from
a Seaside Road home between Nov.
9 and Dec. 27, reported Deputy
Darryi Marlow. Damage was listed
at SI 75 to a door frame.
Candidate Won't Appeal Elections Board Rulina
A Southport woman says she will
not file an appeal with the slate
Board of Elections over a ballot dis
pute that stems from the Nov. b
Doshcr Memorial Hospital Board of
Trustees race.
Evelyn "Teal" Butler lost her scat
on the board and her bid for a new
cieciion last week when the
Brunswick County Board ol
Elections dismissed her complaint.
She claimed the ballot was irregu
lar and may have affected the out
come of the race.
Attorney Robert Serra informed
the elections board Friday that Ms.
Butler had decided not to appeal the
ruling. She was faced with an 1 1
a.m. Friday deadline for filing an ap
peal but decided against incurring
the legal expenses involved in carry
ing the case to Raleigh.
An incumbent, Ms. Butler lost her
scat on the board to newcomer Gib
Barbcc, who won a scat along with
Eugene B. Tomlinson Jr. and incum
bent Chairman Charles B. Johnson.
Tomlinson, who was appointed by
Brunswick County Commissioners
to replace Doug Lcdgctt, was the
only candidate to file for an unex
pired four-year term on the board.
His race was separated on the ballot
from one involving four candidates
vying for two six-year seats.
The raccs had never been scparat
cd on the ballot before, giving an
unfair advantage to Tomlinson, ar
gued Ms. Butler, who said she
would have filed for the four-year
term had someone told her the race
would be separate.
A decision handed down by the
elections board last Monday listed
42 findings of fact arid a com lusum
of law that stated Ms. Butler's com
plaint was dismissed "because there
is not substantial evidence of a vio
lation of the election law or other ir
regularity or misconduct."
Saying she was surprised when
she saw the ballot, Ms. Butler noti
fied the elections board on Nov. 5
that she planned to protest the race
before rcsulLs were in.
Elections Board Attorney David
Clcgg said the Nov. 5 ballot was
printed in accordance with the
guidelines set under state law. A
1985 ballot for the trustee board
contained an unexpired term but was
not separated on the ballot.
Bui "ne form for that baiiot was
"inconsistent" with the provisions of
the state statutes, the board's find
ings state.
A 1987 notice from the State
Attorney General's officc had rec
ommended thai candidates for unex
pired terms be separated on the bal
lot from candidates seeking full
terms, said Clcgg.
State Officials Awaiting Rivergate Erosion Plan
State officials arc still wailing lor
a local development company ac
cused of violating environmental
rules to submit an erosion -control
plan that was due three months ago.
Brunswick County Superior Court
Judge William C. Gore last month
ordered that the overdue plan be
submitted to the state office by Jan.
10.
If the plan isn't turned in by then,
all of the stockholders of Rivcrgatc
Estates Inc. will have to attend a Jan.
13 court hearing, according 10 Robert
Floyd, attorney for the corporation.
Developers of Rivergate Estates
on the Waccamaw River have yet to
turn in the plan that was due Oct. 3,
saitl Dan Sams, regional director oi
the N.C. Land Quality Section in
Wilmington.
Rivergatc Esuites, Inc., the com
pany developing the 100-acrc-plus
subdivision off N.C. 9()4, had
promised to submit the plan in a
conscnt judgment filed in
September.
The consent judgment and recent
court order are results of a state ef
fort to get developers Jimmy Gore
and Dale Gore to comply with the
N.C. Sedimentation and Pollution
Control Act of 1973.
State land quality officials cited
the developers for six violations of
the act at their property on the
Brunswiek-Columbus county line in
September and November 1990.
Initial violations included failing
to submit an erosion-control plan
prior to beginning development and
failing to install devices to control
erosion at the site.
North Carolina officials later
charged the owners with failure to
lake measures to keep sediment on
site, failing to have a buffer zone be
tween the development and river,
grading slopes near the river too
sleep and failure to provide ground
covcr on exposed slopes.
The U.S. Army Corps of En
gineers issued a "cease and desist"
order last lull to prevent the devel
opers from filling any more wet
lands along the river.
In March, the N.C. Department of
Environment, Health and Natural
Resources filed a civil suit seeking
an injunction ordering the develop
ment company to halt all land-dis
turbing activity at the site.
The consent judgment filed Sept.
23 in Brunswick County Superior
Court was designed to "amicably re
solve" the matter. It noted that the
corporation wanted to take action to
correct the problems.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Lawson Completes Basic Trainina At Orlando
U.S. Navy Seaman Recruit Terry
W. Lav* son rcccntly completed basic
training at Recruit Training Com
mand, Orlando, Fla.
He was taught general military
subjects that prepared him for addi
tional training in one of the Navy's
88 occupational fields.
A 1992 graduate of Orrum High
School in Orrum, he is the son of
Morris Lawson of Shalloue. He
joined the Navy in September 1991 .
Finishes Studies
Navy Hospitalman Recruit Corey
T. Fields, son of Robert Grady of
Leland, rcccnily graduated from
Field Medical Scrvicc School.
During the course at Marine
Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, Fields
was prepared for duty with Marine
Corps combat units as either a Navy
hospital corpsman or dcnuil techni
cian.
To graduate, students arc required
to demonstrate basic proficiency in
emergency rocuicai icchrn^ucs, Cd
sualty evacuation, field sanitation
and preventive medicine procedures.
Didn't Make Cut
Brunswick County's two candi
dates for Morchcad Scholarship
Awards to the University of North
Carolina were eliminated in regional
competition earlier this month.
Of the six finalists chosen from
the Southeast Region, one is from
Whitcville, two from Kinston, two
from Wilmington and one from
Faison.
Pamela Dctric of West Brunswick
High School and James Lee Simon
Jr. of South Brunswick High School
were among 21 nominees inter
viewed from across the region.
Finalists will be considered for all
cxpcnscs-paid undergraduate educa
tions at UNC by the Morchcad
Foundation's Central Selection
1
Timothy P. Gibble, M.D.
Adult Medicine
Board Certified Internist
Susan Gibble, PA-C
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New Patients Welcome
Ali Medicare claims filed. Assignment accepted on all In
patient care and out-patient procedures
Convenient to
754-8921 The Brunswick Hospital
Committee.
Returns Home
Navy Fireman Apprentice John
athan R. LeCroy, son of Mary Selph
of Lcland, recently returned from a
six-month deployment aboard the
guided missile destroyer U.S.S.
Dahlgren following a multi-national
naval exercise known as UNITAS.
Conducted each year since I960,
UNITAS operations join ships, air
craft and Navy ground forces of the
U.S. Atlantic Fleet with units from
South America for six months of
combined navai warfare exercises.
While participating in the project,
LcCroy visited ports in Peru, Chile,
Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and
Ecuador.
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A Quiet Afternoon
Shut out from the noise of the world , Phillip Alexander of Shal
lotte spent Christmas Eve walking along Ocean Isle Beach with his
metal detector, a hobby he finds very exciting. During the summer
Alexander said he is often asked to locate sunbathers' lost jewelry.
Ixist Tuesday , however, he had only come up with a few coins.
STAFF PHOTO BY OORl C G'JRGANUS
Regional Forum Offers Chance
To Speak On Education Issues
Brunswick County residents will
have a chance to express their views
on educational funding priorities and
other education issues at a regional
community meeting Jan. 28 at East
Bladen High School in Elizabeth
town.
Hours arc 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Representatives of the Brunswick
County Board of Education plan to
attend, said Chairman Donna Bax
ter, and others concerned parents,
educators, students and community
leaders arc encouraged to attend.
The session is one of 12 regional
meetings scheduled statewide in
December and January by the state
board and Superintendent Bob
hUierulge.
The purpose of the meetings is to
give individuals an opportunity to
express their views on the length of
the school day and school, interrup
tions of the school day, and other
issues that directly affect the time
available for teaching and ieaming.
Also, speakers arc invited to
voice opinions on school budget pri
orities for the upcoming short ses
sion of the North Carolina General
Assembly.
Summaries of comments made at
the 12 meetings will be presented to
the State Board of Education this
spring. The board, which sets poli
cies regarding die state's public
schools, has been considering sever
al issues related to time to teach, in
cluding lengthening the instructional
day to six hours.
The meetings wiii hcip gauge
public concerns on the proposal and
to gather ideas on how to best use
the lime already available in the
school day.
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