Trailer Fire Caused By Hot Stove
A double-wide mobile home nonh of ? - -
A double-wide mobile home north of Shalloue was
destroyed by fire Monday night after a hot stove was left
unattended.
Civieiown hire Chief A1 Nord said the Amelia
Milligan residence on U.S. 17 across from MAC Con
struction Company was a totai loss.
Firefighters were caiied around 8:20 p.m. Monday
and remained on the scene until 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.
"We were at the station having training so we were
there in three or four minutes." he said. "The house was
too far gone when we got there to save it"
Nobody was injured in the blaze. Nord said Mrs.
Milligan's daughter and grandchild were the only people
home when the tire started.
In addition to Civietown, firefighters also responded
from Shallmif Supply End Tn-Pf?ch VFDs.
Nord didn't have an estimated value of the structure
and its contents. He said the family did have some insur
ance coverage.
Northern Mayors Set Hearing On School
BY MARjORIE MEGIVERN
Hoping to confront Brunswick
County school officials with their
constituents' discontent, the Nor
ihem Mayors Council wiii hold a
puDiic nearing uii iiie sutooi system,
to be held in the North Brunswick
High School gym at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Mayor Kenneth Messer Sr. of
Belville said 5,000 letters of invita
tion have been sent to all boxholders
in the north end of the county.
Special invitations went to school
board members and educators. He
drafted the message to the public on
behalf of Mayors Bobby Brown of
Navassa, S.L. Doty of Lcland, and
Ernest Grainger of Sandy Creek, as
well as Jean Speight, representing
Lcland Sanitary District, and
District 5 Commissioner Donald
Shaw, who are also on the Mayors
Council.
"Is anyone listening?" the letter
asks, a question parents from the
north end have been wondering for
several months, as they have tried to
get the ear of the school board.
Presentations have been made at its
meetings to inform board members
of the needs perceived in Leland
Middle School, Lincoln Primary and
North Brunswick High School.
Special small meetings have been
held with Superintendent P.J*. Han
kins and Associate Superintendent
William Turner in regard to mainte
nance issues. Among other things,
parent groups have pleaded for a
prcschool program and a new ele
mentary school to relieve over
crowding.
"We mayors had a tour of the
northern schools and we saw a lot of
inequities," Messer said. "As the
SAT and CAT scores came out, we
saw that Brunswick County's school
system has problems. Our children
are getting cheated out of their edu
cation and we need to bring this to
the attention of the board and all the
cur/ens. People need to know their
tax dollars are not being well spent."
Messer said the towns of Bclvillc
and Leland have made donations to
their area schools, which he said
were not ar well equipped as others
in the county.
"We hear horror stones about our
kids ready to go to college not really
being well prepared for it," he said.
"We want to send a strong message
to the board that it isn't doing its
job."
The letter rallying people to the
hearing poses the further questions,
"Are monies being distributed to all
areas or districts equally?" and "Are
our buildings and grounds up to
par?"
It notes the lack of sufficient
preschool and federal Head Start
programs to help prepare children
for school and calls attention to the
county's ranking of 77th among 100
in the state in money allocated by
county commissioners.
"Does politics come before the
needs and concerns of our chil
dren?" it asks.
School board Chairman Donna
Baxter reacted with some indigna
tion to news of the hearing.
"What in the world will that ac
complish?" she asked. "And those
people accusing the school board of
not doing its job, have everyone of
them helped their children with their
homework and sent them to school
with a good breakfast? Parents have
to do their jobs, too."
Board member Folly Kuss said
parents in the north end have done
some very positive things in their
schools and have had a changed alti
tude in recent years.
"When they have come before us,
they've been very positive and real
ized we couldn't do everything
overnight. They have taken respon
sibility for working toward some of
the things they need," she said.
The difficulty, Mrs. Russ ob
served, is when a hearing turns into
a gripe session, dealing with person
al problems a parent may have with
one child.
As few alleged inequities, she said,
"Every school probably thinks they
get the short end of the stick. I don't
think there is any difference in the
allocation of supplies or equipment
among schools, but those schools
had some money they just didn't
spend."
Hankins could not be reached for
comment, but Mrs. Russ predicted
he and other administrators would
attend the hearing.
Convict Treated After Lightning Strike
A convict from Shallottc, another
inmate and a prison guard were tak
en to the hospital last Wednesday af
ter lightning struck close to a recre
ation yard at Odom Correctional In
stitution near Jackson, according to
prison officials.
David Bullard, 42, of Shallottc,
who is serving a life sentence for
first-degree sexual offense, was
treated at Halifax Memorial Hospital
and returned to custody Wednesday
evening, according to the N.C. De
partment of Corrections.
As a thunderstorm passed through
the area, lightning struck near the
yard of the close security prison at
about 5:50 p.m.
After the. strike, Correction Offi
cer R.A. Powell and inmates Bull
ard, Danny White and Derrick Jones
complained of tingling sensations in
their arms.
Prison officials said that as a pre
caution, Powell, Bui lard and White
were taken to the hospital by the
Jackson Rescue Squad. Jones was
seen by a nurse at the prison.
Bullard was sent to prison Nov. 7,
lOOl of for tv?incr rnnulrfA^ in
Brunswick County Superior Court.
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