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PHOTO CONTWtUTf O W accamaw's Young Scholars Fourteen Waccaman Elementary School students were inducted into the National Junior Honor Society. Pictured are (front, from left) Michael Stevenson. Aimee Long, Joshua Thomas, (middle row) Stacey Phillips, Crystal McPherson, Cody Inman, Delphia Daniels, Troy Simmons (back) Crystal Duncan, Chris Russ, Jomondre Frink and Christen Price. Absent from photo are Christopher Gore and Cednc Grant. Brunswick Librury Buurd Rsau&sts $534,000 Ruuu&t BY ERIC CARLSON They have built two new libraries and are expanding two others. In response to public requests, they intend to keep all four libraries open longer, including some evening and weekend hours. Now the Brunswick County Library Board of Trustees will ask the county commissioners for $584,145 to keep those plans on track. At its regular monthly meeting Monday night, the library board ap proved a spending request that in cludes five new full-time employ ees, four part-time workers and more than $100,000 for new books, magazines and audio-visual materi als. If approved, the budget would al so increase wages for long-time li brary employees who are currently paid the starting salaries designated for their positions. Library Director Maurice Tate told the bouid. "The items I've asked for repre sent wit enormous MJCTC5SC, Ts'c said. They reflect both your priori ties ana my priorities, we nave two new libraries to staff. You nave asked me to extend service hours and to begin automating the system. That alone will cost $10,000 this year. **I have also tried to include a more equitable salary situation for our employees, ' she sgid. 'Pay scales for each employee were first established after the li braries became a courty department in 1992. Consequently, even library workers with 15 years service are currently paid at the starting salaries for their position, Tate said. The 1994-95 budget request puts each veteran employee at the middle level salary for their position, Tate said. Those who are hired for the newly proposed positions would be paid the starting rate for their job classification. Gene Pinkerton suggested that board members plan to attend the public hearing on the county budget and make themselves available to explain the need for new positions and salaries to the county commis sioners and taxpayers. Chairman Don Eggert said the request for in creased salaries might be looked up on favorably this year. "As 1 understand it, the salary sit uation in several departments is cat tywampus and has been cattywam pus for the past two or three years," Eggert said. "The county manager M ? m ????? mMm ??? miu itv noutui (U MOit nui KII15 wu it But of course he isn't here." County Manager wyman Yeiion is recovering from injuries suttered in an Easter Sunday traffic accident. A professional temporary manager, Donald McGinnis, was hired earlier this month as interim county manag er. The proposed library budget also ifaCiuuCa ?ou.uuu fin new ihwmk ?nn $12,000 to provide magazine sub scriptions for the four libraries. Tate said the library system currently has Weekly Crossword CLUES ACROSS 1. incorrect 4. Army chaplain 8. Whole 9. Applaud 10. Sugar coating 11. Pouch 12. Frenzy 13. Turthfulness 16. Skillful 19. Bad smell 23. Earthenware 26. Explode 28. Butt 29. Musical instrument 30. Spring 31. Nothing 32. Larceny 33. Vacant CLUES DOWN 2. Sea 3. Refuse 4. Dilemma 5. Condescend 6. Ejects 7. Irate 9. Farcical 14. Female sheep 15. Nervous twitch 17. Toilet 18 . Cask 20. Shake 21. Lo**the3 22. Despot 23. Journal 24 Health proposal 25 Run away to marry 27. Seize (Aaswcn are oa Page 8-Q fewer than one book per capita of county population, or about half the recommended number. The system also has fewer than one-third the recommended number of magazine subscriptions, she said. In a progress report to the board, Eggert noted that both the new Leland and Oak Island library benches are now open and work has begun on renovations to the West Brunswick Library in Shal lotte. Renovation of the Southport branch is expected to begin within a week. A Iv.iipurary library branch in Shallotte has been set up by the Friends of West Brunswick Library. The board formally thanked mem bers of the organization Monday night for their efforts in maintaining library service during the six-month renovation and expansion of the Shallotte library. A dedication ceremony and open house for the Oak Island library has been scheduled for June 26 from 2 to 4 p.m. Volunteers Are Available For Talks Shallotte residents George M. McDaniei jr. and Randy Hohnsueit er, outreach volunteers for the N.C. Museum of Art, are available to pre sent free slide talks in Brunswick County, according to a museum new release. General slide programs based on the museum's permanent collection and on special exhibitions are avail -ui.. e ? ? i 1- ? a nuiv. iui oviiVAiia, witiv aiiu vuiiuiai groups and other organizations that request mem. The museum's outreach volunteer corps includes 200 men and women from 65 counties across the state. They have completed day-long workshops at the museum to qualify as volunteers. Another workshop is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 10, at iiw museum in Rakrigh Groups interested in scheduling a museum slide program should call Nancy Brantley, assistant to the di rector for public programs, at (919)833-1935. The museum's outreach program is funded by the N.C. General Assembly. VA Mobile Clinic To Visit May 26 The Veterans Administration mo ?-??- ?11?2 ? ? :?? i ? -a a.. uiit; vmisv ~ uv m uiv ^inuivuv National Guard Armory May 26 from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. This is an additional visit because the clinic will not return until June 28, said Virgil Batten, veterans' ser vice officer Veterans needing medical care or audition*! intVmnuMMw should C2j! the county veterans services office at 253-4307. A i Tie AUTO JLO S ELECTRIC ALTERNATORS STARTERS VOLTAGE REGULATORS GENERATORS REPAIR? REBUILT? EXCHANGED AUTOMOTIVE WIRING 754-7656 Royal Oak Road & Hwy. 17 N., Shallotte CAROLINA EYE ASSOCIATES, P.A. Medic* & Surgical Treatment of Eya Diaaasaa BofdClMtedPhyiidarwMtdfrOT Awjgnmtrt-Oi?npu?'M?dc?id Alan drown. MD'Shann May, MO* Igor Wwira, MO No-SMch Cataract Surgery RK & ALK for Low to High Amounts of Naar/Farsightedntta Macular Degeneration Glaucoma Sugary Laser Surgery of the Eye Retina & Vitreous Surgery 754-5434 Loa/BnjnmkkCoutyCmm Brunswick Hospital ? Supply (800) 422-1564 Myrtle Beach Canter (800) 758-8478 ? Wlmington Center (800) 995-4440 The eye Surgery Specialists Twelve Slightly Injured in Two Local Collisions Twelve persons were treated for complaints of minor injuries last week following two wrecks in which drivers were charged with yield violations after making a left turn into the path of an oncoming vehicle. The first happened Monday, May 16. at 4:25 p.m. at the intersection of Old Ferry Connection Road and Stanbury Road near H olden Beach. Driving a 19RS Olrkmnhile. Jamie Neugent, 27, of Route 2, Germantown, was turning left from Stanbury Road onto Old Ferry Cnnmction Road. AfimrHino to N.C. State Highway Patrol Trooper T.W. Caulder, Neugent failed to yield the right-of-way to a south bound car on Old Ferry Connection driven by Rjchste Hobbs, 28, of Holden Beach, causing the impact. Neugent, who was charged, was not injured. His four passengers, Tracy, 26, Jessica, 4, Angela, 4, and Mandy Neugent. 7, were transported to The Brunswick Hospital at Supply with complaints of injury. Also taken to the hospital with complaints of injury were Hobbs and her four passengers, Joshua. 2, Tiffany, 9. Bethany. 5. and Jamie Hobbs. 8. Damage to Neugent's Oldsmobilc was estimated at $5,000, and to Hobbs' 1993 Dodge station wagon, $4,500. faultier charged a second driver with failure to yield following a Wednesday afternoon accident at the intersection of Old Ocean Highway and the U.S. 17 bypass between Supply and Bolivia. At about 2:50 p.m. May 18, Frances Maggard, 49, of Supply, dri ving a 1982 Cadillac, stopped at the intersection and attempted to make a left turn to travel south on U.S. 17. Caulder charged Maggard with fail ure to yield to a northbound 1992 Ford operated by Phyllis Owens, 67, of Silver Spring. Md. Maggard told the officer that turn ing venicies nau iuuupcicu u? visi bility. Maggard. Mrs. Owens and her passenger, Leroy Owens, 71, were transported to The Brunswick Hospital with complaints of injury. Damage was estimated at $4,000 to Maggard's car and $5,500 to Owens' car. Island Police Department Ta j-firs Two Office ? ? IIIW ? TT W ? 1VTT WMIV ?wi *a The Leland Police Department has been awarded a S91,27u fedeni' grant to hire two new officers. The two-year-old department will use the new officers to help imple ment community policing and to provide police services around the clock, according to a news release from Janice McKerarie Cole, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Leland was incorporated in 1989 and, until the police department was formed in 1992. depended on the Brunswick County Sheriff's Depart ment to provide law enforcement coverage. The department consists of a chief, one officer and a few vol unteers. "Resource limitations preclude this small department from fully in vestigating three-fourths of reported crimes," Cole said. "Drug traffick ing and youth crime are significant problems; 95 percent of those arrest ed are between the ages of 14 and 18." The department currently is work ing with residents of six mobile hcrnc jq crusnizs community watches and wants to establish simi j"? M?inMy\(4uw4c and train public school employees to help address youth crime, she added. After they are trained, the new of ficers will work closely with citizen groups to implement a formal com munity watch program, as well as a ride-along program and a Law tnfcrcement Explorer post. In addition, the department plans to work with federal, state and local law enforcement officials to ktcstify ami pswSccuic carccr cruninsU, Coic said. Tri-Beach VFD Hosts Fish Fry Sat., May 28 Tri-Beach Volunteer Fire Depart ment will host a Memorial Day din ner Saturday. May 28, at Clayton's Lawn and Garden Shop on N.C. 130 East, Holden Beach, beginning at 11:30 a.m. Plates will include fish, cole slaw, hush puppies, and french fries for S4.50 each. Hot dogs will be avail able for SO cents each. In case of rain, the event will take place at Tri-Beach Fire Department on Sabbath Home Road. BRINGHOME tueAkmyum iiiLvyuiw!: On Sat* At CALABASH OBJ am COASTAL USCOUNT BEVERAGES JMMVSMNTRV MKTS KWK MARKET MMUTE-MAM MOORE'S OAS 4 GROCERY snujnCCM?miuiu?N SIMMONS' BEVERAGE MART rS-? tW Forniuna 40% Off Retail Free Bed Step with Every Bed Sold, Noar Featuring Solid Oak as wail as Pin* Furniture. Pencil Poet Bad*, Trunk*, Dinette Sets, Entertainment Center a Much, Muck, Muck More. Wa ahlp ? 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