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Due to the
Thanksgiving
holidays, the TV
listings were not
received in time
for inclusion in
this week’s issue.
Area Meetings
Thursday, December 4
-Mesic Town Council, 7:30 pill,
community building.
Tuesday, December •
-Minnesott Beach Town Board,
7 pm, town hall.
-Bayboro Town Board, 7:30 pm,
town hall.
-Beaufort Couhty Board of
Education, 8 pm, administration
building, Washington.
An unknown person put two bullet holes through the
quarter panel of a Pamlico County deputy’s car Sunday
Three young men ware thrown from this car last week be/ore It began to burn.
Wednesd,
lay, December 3,
Xhe Pam lTpn
serving pamlico county &
RICHLAND TOWNSHIP
Funding Public Buildings
Without Referendum
When the Pamlico County
Board of Commissioners met
Monday, Decemvber 1, the board
{heard of what the county manager
called a “new and innovative
method” of financing the con
struction of public buildings
without having a bond referen
dum.
County manager Bill Rice in
troduced Ken Nye, a represen
tative of Davidson and Jones Cor
poration, a Raleigh-based real
estate development and construc
tion company. Nye explained that
in Harnett County, a three million
dollar Jail is currently under con
struction and will be paid for
without the county having to sell
bonds.
The county has been, for some
time, trying to find a way to ac
quire or construct more space for
the department of social services
Wrecks Mar
Thanksgiving Holidays
The Thanksgiving holidays
were busy ones for the highway
patrol in Pamlico County. For
tunately, though, there were no
fatalities and injuries were
relatively minor.
On Wednesday, November 26, at
8:05 am in Bayboro, a two-car ac
cident sent the drivers of both cars
to Craven County Hospital. Ac
cording to the highway patrol’s
report, Michael Jerome Credle,
24, driving a 1975 Buick, was stop
ped in the travel lane on Highway
5$ behind stopped traffic when he
was struck from the rear by a 1982
Buick driven by Linda Tetterton
Carawan, 44, of Rt. 2 Aurora,
v Credle’s car sustained $1,000 in
ipmageimd Carawan’s, 85,009.
Trooper J.T. Hoffmann cited
Carawfen tor failure to reduce
speed to avoid an accident
On Friday, November 28, two
hunters had a bead-on collision on
a field road 7.7 miles southwest Of
Alliance. There
The report indicates that Bruce
Len Mldgette, 83, of Rt. 65
east on a
rat
east.
White was cited for careless and
reckless by Trooper K.R. Hill.
Damage to his vehicle was
estimated at $900 and $3,500 for
Midgette’s truck.
That same evening, about 7:15
pm, on RP1100, five miles north of
Arapahoe, three young men were
sli#iUy injured when they were
thrown from the car in which they
were riding.
. The report stated that Kevin
Lydell Midgett, 21, of Rt. 2
Arapahoe, driving a 1986
Chevrolet, was traveling west on
RP 1100 at a high rate of speed
when he crossed the center line
and ran off the left shoulder. The
car flipped throwing out Midgett
as well as two passengers, Charles
Anthony Gardner, 18, of Grant
sboro, and Jonathon Johnson, 16.
The vehicle then caught fire and
burned completely. The loss was
estimated at $13,000.
Midgett was cited for careless
and reckless by Trooper G.R. Leg
gett.
Two people escaped injury,
though, Saturday night,
November 29, when the 1978
Plymouth in which they were
traveling flipped.
Emery Wayne Badger, 21, of Rt.
1 Oriental, and an unidentified 19
(See WRECKS, Page 14)
Pamlico Christmas Parade
The 1986 Pamlico County
Christmas Parade will be held on
Thursday, December it, at 7:80
and health department.
Nye said that in 1983 Harnett
County officials received permis
sion to sell a ten-acre tract of land
that had been set aside for a
government complex. Davidson
and Jones, he continued, agreed to
purchase the property and build a
law enforcement complex to the
county’s specifications. When
completed, Davidson and Jones,
who borrowed the money for con
struction, will assign their interest
to Dean Witter Company who will
then sell tax-free certificates to
recoup their investment. Harnett
County will make annual
payments to Dean Witter for ten
years to retire the debt.
County attorney Bernard
Hollowell asked how it was deter
mined that the county was getting
the best construction price.
The method would eliminate not
only the need for a bond referen
dum but also the competitive bid
process.
Nye explained that Harnett
County’s architect and board
negotiated construction costs.
Davidson and Jones then added
three percent for overhead and
five percent profit.
Dean Witter, said Nye, is willing
to finance on a year-to-year basis
therefore a long-term debt, which
would require the approval of the
taxpayers via a bond referendum
and the sale of bonds, would not be
created.
This method is commonplace in
the northeast, he added.
(See BUILDING, Page 14)
Shots Fired Sunday In
Hobucken And Olympia
A Pamlico County deputy’s
patrol car was damaged Sunday
night when an unknown person
fired two rounds into the left front
fender. The car was parked at the
Funny Farm grocery store in
Hobucken at the time of the inci
dent.
The car, which was assigned to
Deputy Denny Wayne Lupton, had
been left at the store when Lupton
was called on to assist in transpor
ting Curtis “Cotton” Leary to the
Jail.
The deputies had a warrant for
Leary for injury to personal pro
perty (breaking the window of
Benny Leary, his brother) and,
following an altercation at the
Hobucken Marina, Leary was also
charged with trespassing and
resisting arrest.
(See SHOTS, Page 6)
Commissioners Approve
Water line Extensions
The Pamlico County Board of
Commissioners Monday,
December 1, decided to break a
policy on water line extensions
and also told property owners in
The Bluffs that they would do
what they could to help them get
their roadways repaired.
Several months ago, Marvin
on the Don Lee
to extend
property
in the
'-sted
sjrstraa the lines could not be
economically installed during the
(See WATER, Page 14)
Commissioners Take Office in Pamlico
Three Pamlico County commis
sioners, one of them new to the
board, wore sworn in Monday,
December 1, by the clerk of
Ward finished with its
.county attorney Ber
weii was appointed
chairman. The old
Pamlico county Sheriff Ledum Brinson looks over the
door at the Family Dollar Store In Allisnce that was pried
open sometime late Tuesday night or early Wednesday
morning, November J5-JJ.
An undetermined amount of cash was taken and mer
chandise was knocked off the shelves.
No arrests had been made as of Monday afternoon.
Climate Probably Good
For Shrimp Farming
Fish (arms are flourishing in
some parts of the state; and
shrimp ponds, successfully farm
ed in South Carolina, are being
planned for Pamlico County.
And, although shrimp are
harvested from local waters, will
they survive in ponds here? The
assistant manager of a South
Carolina mariculture center
thinks they will-and will do well.
A1 Stokes, assistant manager of
the Waddell Mariculture Center in
Bluffton, South Carolina, said that
the shrimp need 150 to 160 days for
growth, they are already approx
imately 20 days old when placed in
the ponds.
The ponds are stocked when any
danger of frost has passed, he ex
plained, since a drastic drop in
temperature could result in a high
mortality rate. Being shallow- the
ponds used in a test at Waddell
averaged 1.3 meters in depth-the
pond water warms up quickly.
Stokes said that although he had
not seen any water temperature
data for this area, he believed
there was “plenty of time to get
marketable shrimp.” He added,
“I think North Carolina is ready to
(See SHRIMP, Page 6)
board then adjourned.
Incumbent county commis
sionert Robert Paul and Brad
Rice, along with newcomer Nan
cy Smith, then took their oatha of
office from clerk of court Mary Jo
Potter.
Smith replace* Vince Sevenaki,
who she defeated in the primary.
When the new board convened,
they elected Louise Muse as chair
man, former chairman Patsy
Sadler as first vice-chairman and
Rice as second vice-chairman.
Rice will continue to serve as
the commissioners’ represen
(Sae OATHS, Page 14) ^