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Shollotte, North Corolino, Thursday, Moy 26, 1994 50< Par Copy 100 Pages, 5 Sections Including Supplement, Plus Inserts
Redwine Seeks
Million-Dollar
Reserve Fund
For Bird Island
BY SUSAN USHER
Rep. E. wavia Redwine was u>
announce Wednesday (May 25) his
introduction of a bill to put in re
serve $1 million in state funds to
ward the possible purchase of Bird
"I stress 'reserve.'" said Redwine.
"because until we have an asking
price there won't be any negotiation
of a purchase. We hope that sotne
the tine mis. (Janie
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stand preserved and are willing to
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negotiate.
The bill was to be considered by
?fee NjEss! ^ Rss
ources Appropriations Committee at
9:15 am Wednesday. Redwine
scheduled the committor date to that
Bird Island Preservation Society
members coming into Raleigh for
the press conference could help lob
by legislators, particularly members
of the committee.
"We need to present why it is im
portant to all of North Carolina to
preserve this island," said Redwine.
Straddling the North Carolina/
Carolina li"* between
Beach and Little River Inlet, Bird
is one of the few undeveloped
barrier islands left in southeastern
Kg., ,ll, IT. In, ...L n ?i ?
in oft n Carolina, rncc, who lives in
Greensboro and Sunset Bench, owns
moat of the vp^nr**! and ?**
of marshes on the North Carolina
Approximate!) two years ago
Price and her agents began
and federal permits to i
t-U-J
IWBO w mm;
with the goal of raiamg public
awareness and wuppuit for public ac
quisition of the island at a fair mar
ket price.
Bird Island Preservation Society
now has 3,000 members mmA has
raised man than $30,000 to wok
toward preseivation of the j
Inside...
Barroom Murder
Trial Goes To Jury
BY ERIC CARLSON
As 10 women and two men began
considering the guilt or innocence of
David Dwain Giiley, the jurors in
his first-degree
"???rfci trial had
a single all-im
portant question
L.
w j oatk uiwtir
selves: Who do
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WC UCUCTVi
TesiiiuOBy '* j
and dosing ar- S^SBBS SEr
guments in the p
week-long trial 0^ '
were CdMhtri GI1XEY
Tuesday. The jury was scheduled to
hear instructions from Superior
Court Judge Knox Jenkins and to
begin deliberations Wednesday
morning.
Witnesses to the barroom shoot
ing. mrindmg friends and family of
victim, **??* Qyijy !?
te&uonaily Juan Hernan
dez, then pulled out a pistol and
fired a bullet through his lung and
People who saw Giiley earlier
that night testified they heard him
ay. he was "going to kill a Me*
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ican it ne ino ais tneoos ncaoeu
for the Junction Lounge in Ash, a
night spot amnng Hiipinin
But Giiley insisted he never made
ik reaMMi. He ratified that be har
bors no animosity toward Mexicans
and was supported in that daim by
men who toid the court in Spanish
w>?? assy ksSKSSSS U^cy to ha
ih ,r, f,;,? ,<
tneir menu.
On the night of the shooting,
Giiley Iratifird that he thought
Hernandez was coming at him with
a knife when he pulled out his pistol
to defend himself. He iiwistrd that
his finger was not on the trigger
when the gun went off.
With no witnesses to support
Gilley'i version of events on the
night of Jan. 30, 1993, attorney
James Payne's defense reiiea heavi
ly on the 26-year-old Brunswick
County native's testimony. Gilley
took the stand Monday afternoon
and was cross-examined Tuesday
morning.
Speaking directly to the jury in a
disarming, folksy manner, Gilley
said he always carried the JifG-cai
iber semi-automatic tucked into his
t~ a io. v -a ?*. x?_|
HUM IMUIU ucuuSE > wuu t uCS!
with banks and I keep a large sum of
mossy with nae." nc saiu iiic gun
was there, beneath a pair of blue
coveralls, when be and* two friends
walked into the Junction Lounge at
about 9 p.m.
Gilley admitted thai the three men
had been drinking beer that evening.
As they played pool and drank some
more, he said his friend Timothy
FuUwood started "being obnoxious,
smashing pool sticks, bowling like a
coyote" and generally "being a
drank." Gil ley said that oa three oc
casions the bartender ioid the three
of them to "settle down" and eventu
ally asked them to leave.
They didn't Gil ley testified that
there was a girl watching Fullwood
from a nearby tabic. Giiicy said be
approached the girl and "asked her if
was a problem."
Site said there wasn't, but the
conversation attracted the attention
of her mother, Sylvia Hernandez,
who walked over and identified her
self. She told him she didn't want
any problems either, UiUey said.
Then Gilley testified that Juan
Hernandez, 28, a Tfcbor City auto
mechanic, approached the group
"looking kind of ill" and cursed at
him He said Hernandez "talked to
(See GILLEY, Pip 2-A)
Honest Trio Finds, Returns
Vacationing Couple's Cash
BY SUSAN USHER
Alice and Vernon Jenkaes' vaca
tion plan* were in ruin.
Arriving Saturday at their rental
oottage at Holden Beach, the Hamlet
couple realized their vacation mon
ey?all $1,000 of it? was gone.
They baiktiarked to a local (tore
where they had Hopped to make -a
purchase on their way to the wind,
op. the the money Uan
oS ui iftcir ?uulmi when Vernon
Hepped out of it No ooe had turned
in the 10 carefully-folded $100 bills.
' I A M |. M ? ? ? ? ?? m 4 ^ 1 1 4 ^ I ? ? a r?
inc jcukscs reported me loss to
the Holden Beach Police Depart
Mooday, the money still hadn't
shown up and the Jenkaes returned
to the store where they had slopped
two days earlier.
The car beside theirs looked very
familiar, it looked like the same ve
hide that hud puiied up beside theirs
Saturday. It
Vernon asked the three occupants
they had seen the money; one of the
young woman asked several ques
tions, probing to see if the Jenkses
really had lost the money.
"They told us they had found it,
but had been scared lo advertise they
had. They were afraid it was drug
money," said Alice. "The wouwi
went back to her bouse and got it
"I have never been so happy." she
*7 wanted penile to know
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aoout meg nonesty. iney axtn t
have to give ns that money. They
could have kept it"
If no one had identified them
selves as having lost the $1,000,
Alice Jenks said the trio of fe
males?Wendy Vhrnam, Cheryl
rutcn ana Jessica rutcn or
VOTjmtnwMw R?d, Sml? ? M
planned to turn the cash over to the
local bettered women's shelter,
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nope naroor rtomc.
MAYOR BREAKS TIE: SCHAACK ABSENT
Calabash Board
Votes To Boy Sewer Piant For $4.5 Million
tjwo to buy the icwcf lyilcin thsl serves
an their town board Thursday night to mnw
iprnrting US ""'Hiwi for the coMp?y.
UKnmiiuoocrs icacry aiucuict, Koocn
Noe and Jon Sanborn voted in favor of the
pnrchaae while Keith ttedec, Forrest King
and AMn Leiaey opposed it Mayor George
Anderson broke the tie by voting for the mea
sure.
Ed Sfhaarir was in Texas
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to the
Carolina Blythe Utility Company.*
la I similar situation Last month, the bond
put off voting oa a minor zoning change be
Altrcuter and Letaey were abaeaL In
for the delay, Sanborn said at the tine
that he felt the vole would "set the tone for
t decisions and tthrtaM be ?***?* "p** with
the foil board in attendance.'* Sanborn
no such reluctance Thursday nij
The action came after the
beard the flacfiags at a comminre appointed to
? .i #. . . n. ???. y
analyze uic ir? umiiy ui uujring vjwim
Blythe at the owner's asking price of $4 .5 mil
lion.
In a report that praises the integrity of com
pany owner Billy Burnett, the committer "un
qualifiedly recommends the purchase of
Carolina Blythe by the Town of Calabash"
without further price negotiation. It urges the
bond to "make a positive accpiisttioo decision
and to make it quickly" in order to meet a
dradlinr, set by Burnett, of midiugbt, May 31.
"Anyone who has spent some extended
quality dsns with (Bsraef!) has to he im
preaoeu wife hi> forthrigSissss, his prids is the
business and his philosophy that nodes the
business and his personal life," the report said.
"His sale offer to Calabash, we believe, re
flects a boos fide effort to place the operation
squarely under the control of the system users
where, in the opinion of the committrr.. it
clearly belongs."
All three committee members are residents
of the Carolina Shores development and are
customers of Carolina Blythe. There was no
representative on the comminec from oown
{Sss CALABASH, ?SS=2-A)
Abnormally High Tide Puts
Sunset Motorists In Limbo
A onmbiMtiwi of a Itiar high tide ?d ,
from offshore temporarily stranded Sn
on either side of the bridge both Saturday and
m both days nearly a
flooded the
oa either
Mai ? as
Bach Police Chief J. B. Bndl.
"Everybody 'i blaming ns sud it's not oar fault. It's
not the Iowa's fault; it's moady absentee p Wfty own
era," Bnetl said Monday. "What are you going to do?
Von have the people trying to bloch the
then yon have the people wanting to get
Officers bore the brunt of the Name
fruaouied motorMt. One officer wrote in Ms log.
cuaaed 736 tinea."
When the bridge dosed Saturday night from 5 pro.
until 7:10 pJiL, the lwi>%|f lrn<hir shut down operations
without giving the town noticr^A police officer hap
^ Sunday, the town aent an officer and a fire truck to the
aland during a achtdnled 3 pjn. to 8:20 pan, i
"Ihffit was backed up way paat Sugar Sands and
down to the TWin Lakes," said BnelL "On the island it
waa just anreal. Once the bridge opened
again, it took 45 minulea to dear the truf
fle."
With the low-tying cauaeway flooded
with 10 inches of
evening and doeer to 12 in
evemng, Chief BofO <sirt officers had to
stop traffic leaving the island at
Northshore Drive.
The crowd iaolatod on the island Saturday included
local workers aaul benrhgorrs as well aa newly-arrived
hraded out for supper or a night on the
Sunday's crowd waa primarily tourists, said Boell.
"They were saying, 'enough's enough-' Don't get me
wrong. It's a quaint bridgs and one of a kind, but the
time's come they need something else over there. The
beach la beginning to fill up more and more," said the
chief. "If there waa an cmcigcncy you coukhi't get any
body off by vehicle.
"When someone dies, they'll
been done."
% Canal Runneth Over
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