Sprucing Up The Grounds
StAff PHOTO BY MARJORIE MEGIVMN
Some Shallotte Middle School students escaped the classroom last Thursday afternoon to flex their
muscles in the school yard. Darryl Cheers (left rear) took his science class to the front of the school
building to finish a job begun by a horticulture class. Pictured hard at work trimming and watering
bushes and planting pansies are (from left) Billy Russ, foreground, and Carmen He well. Huffy Queen,
Lucy Alloway, Ittitia King and Amy Gale.
Perot Petitions Circulating Here
urunswick t ounty volunteers are
working 10 help put Texas business
leader Ross Perot of Dallas on the
North Carolina ballot as an indepen
dent candidate for president.
Elaine Dumont of Carolina
Shores said that, as of last week.
N.C. Ciu/.cns for Perot had 22 local
volunteers circulating petitions. The
local effort began March 23.
"We don't think there's any prob
lem getting him on the ballot in
North Carolina," she said.
Her own reasons for supporting
Perot?
"Because 1 think we need a
change for the better and someone
who docs not have any special inter
ests. He has the country's well-being
in mind.
"Most politicians talk, talk, talk; 1
have a feeling he does."
Walter Goldsberry, another vol
unteer, citing disillusionment with
the country's political situation, said.
"This just gives voters another
choice. That's all it docs."
Petitions must be in to Perot's vol
unteer organization by May 15 in or
der to ensure the state Board of
Elections' June 1 cut-off date is met
for getting on the ballot for the
November election.
Voters may sign only one petition
and must sign a petition for the
county in which they vote. They
may not sign anyone else's name,
only their own The petition also
asks for the voter's precinct number,
if available.
The state organization has set a
goal of obtaining 100,000-plus sig
natures.
Perot is the founder of Electronic
Data Systems (EDS) and served as
its chairman from 1962 to 1986. He
is currently chairman of Perot Sys
tems Corporation, a computer ser
vices company he founded in 1988.
The Tcxarkana, Texas, native and
U.S. Naval Academy graduate
gained international recognition in
1979 when he financed and directed
a team of EDS employees who freed
two fellow employees being held
hostage in Iran in 1979 .
He has also earned recognition for
his efforts in getting treatment of
United States POWs in North Viet
nam changed, earning the highest
civilian award given by the De
partment of Defense; and in head
ing Texas' 1979 War on Drugs.
Perot received the Winston Chur
chill Award, the Jefferson Award for
Public Service and the Raoul Wal
lenburg award for a lifetime of ser
vice.
To run as an unaffiliated candi
date for president, Perot must make
it on the ballot of all 50 stales.
Ms. Dumont can be reached at
579-4945, daytime, or by writing
N.C. Citizens for Perot, P.O. Box
4508. Calabash, N.C. 2S467. A
nothcr contact is Merle Goldsberry
of the Shallotte area, 754-4124.
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Local Chamber Executive Is Fired Friday By Board
HY SUSAN USIIKR
South Brunswick Islands Chamber
Oi Commerce r
President Holly
Richards was
fired Friday
morning follow
ing a meeting
I Thursday of the
| chamber's board
? of directors.
Ms. Richards,
who began work
last July 15, said
she first rejected RK. hards
? an opportunity to resign with two
< weeks' severance pay, and was then
told that she was being terminated by
( unanimous vote of the board.
"I am very disappointed in the
Kurd's decision to terminate me,"
she said Monday. "I felt I was doing
a very good job for the chamber."
Terry Barbee, president of the
chamber's board of directors, was
one of ihe two members who notified
Ms. Richards of 'he hoard's decision.
"I really don't want to talk about
it," he said Tuesday.
The chamber has made no official
announcement of the board's action.
At the time of her dismissal, Ms.
Richards said. "All I was told was I
was not doing my job; there were no
details, no specifics, nothing."
According to Ms. Richards, con
flicts between her and some board
members were "personal" in nature,
not professional. She said there hail
been two earlier attempts by unspeci
fied board members to have her dis
missed.
Ms. Richards said she is returning
to Raleigh and is speaking with a
lawyer.
She succeeded Susanne Sartclle in
the chamber executive post, moving
here from Raleigh. Previously she
had served as legislative assistant for
N.C. Citizens for Business and
Industry and secretary to the N.C.
Association of Chamber of
Commerce Executives. This was her
first chamber position.
"! appreciate all the people who
did support roe," she said, noting that
during her brief tenure she arranged a
donation of 20 computers that the
chamber gave to a local school and
was instrumental in several state
groups scheduling annual meetings in
the chamber's service area. She had
been nominated as vice president of
Chambers of Eastern North Carolina
and secured publication of a 16-page
pull-out section on the South
Brunswick Islands in North Carolina
magazine, she said.
As of Tuesday, no one had been
named interim administrator for the
chambcr. Barbee indicated.
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