ѮJTѮVSTEBZ Te News ReporterQSFTFOUTB 8FEOFTEBZJT USJCVUFUPUIFNFOBOEXPNFOXIPTFSWFEJOUIF *OEFQFOEFODF%BZ "NFSJDBO"SNFE'PSDFTEVSJOHUIF7JFUOBNDPO ѮFTUBĒPGTe News ëJDUѮFQBHFTFDUJPOGFBUVSFTEP[FOTPGTUPSJFT Reporter XJTIFTBIBQ GSPNMPDBMWFUFSBOTXIPXFSFUIFSFBOEJODMVEFT QZBOETBGF'PVSUIPG Thursday NBOZOFWFSCFGPSFQVCMJTIFEJNBHFTGSPNUIFXBS +VMZUPZPVBMM ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Monday, July 2, 2012 IT’S HOT Perdue vetoes Volume 122, Number 1 Whiteville, North Carolina state budget 75 Cents nRep. Dewey Hill supports budget. By NICOLE CARTRETTE Staff Writer Inside Today Governor Bev Perdue announced Friday that she was vetoing the latest version of the 9-A state budget adopted by the General Assembly r/PFBTZêYPO because she believes too little is being spent on public education. 8IJUFWJMMFNPME “I have traveled around the state visiting with schools ... and people across this state understand the link between education and economic development,” Perdue said in a news conference held Friday. “This budget falls short. So later today I will veto this budget. Legislators have chosen for decades in this state to invest in our children, and this legislature, for the second year in a row, has chosen not to do that,” Perdue said. Rep. Dewey Hill, a Lake Waccamaw Demo- crat who supported the GOP spending plan last See Budget, page 2-A Today’s Mandatory spay, Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist American Profle Jackson Cook gives friend Tanner Wilson a push off the diving board into the pool at the Whiteville features “Do You Country Club Sunday afternoon as temperatures hovered above 100 degrees. neuter at animal Know Your U.S. History? Take the Temperatures soar, reactions vary shelter proposed Quiz.” By NICOLE CARTRETTE By JEFFERSON WEAVER with pet owners) to freestanding pool kits. Staff Writer Staff Writer Area residents shared their attempts to stay cool on Facebook as well. Most took the 100-plus degree An advisory committee appointed by the DIDYOB? As boiling temperatures hit Southeastern North heat in stride, tackling Saturday chores earlier in Columbus County Board of Commissioners is Did you observe ... Carolina Saturday people scrambled to find ways to the morning. The warmer than average winter and recommending changes in adoption policy at beat the heat. cooperative spring and summer has brought a bounty the Columbus County Animal Control shelter. Public areas at Lake Waccamaw were jammed, to area gardens, and many of those backyard crops The group is recommending a mandatory County residents as were private piers around the lake. Daddy Joe’s have ripened a month early. spay/neuter fee ranging from $30 to $100 in Campground at Tabor City was expected to have a big Leigh Rawls Fowler was busy “putting up veggies” addition to the standard $25 adoption fee for making their runs to crowd, not just because of the pending July 4 holiday, Saturday. individuals who adopt pets from the shelter. Myrtle Beach, S.C. but because of the campground’s “Sitting in the shade, with a Currently, spay or neutering of pets adopted to pick up freworks swimming facilities. fan pointed at us, shucking corn, from the shelter is voluntary and individuals Others took to stores and public then to the wash tub to remove the pay only the $25 adoption fee that includes a for the Fourth? ... places to get out of the house for a The Temps silks,” she said. “The water feels rabies vaccination certificate. Side streets in White- little while, but not too far outside. High Friday – 99 great when it hits our bare feet. Rescue organizations with a 5013C form on Also, under the living room fan ville being milled in Charlotte Alameda of the N.C. High Saturday – 102 Museum of Forestry in Whiteville shelling butter beans. I love sum- See Spaying, page 2-A preparation for the said the facility was open, but High Sunday – 101 mertime and the yummy food that frst new pavement hot—three of the site’s four air goes along with it.” conditioners were out. Priscilla Jacobs Dove took time See Page 4-A for more. in decades? Is there “It’s tolerable,” she said, “but away from her business and her County awarded hope for North Madi- that’s about all. We have had several own garden to relax. son Street? ... Tammy families come to visit trying to get “I am just sitting on my porch funding for $1.8 out of the heat.” swing, drinking Diet Sun Drop and Dorman arriving for The air conditioning won’t be completely back on smiling because it’s not 30 degrees outside,” she said. million water project her retirement party line until August, she said. Margaret Sanderson Pope made the best of a hot “We’ll be grateful,” she said. day by working on handicrafts. dressed in a grass nInterconnection between County Keeping the air moving was paramount through- “I am sitting where it is cool crocheting items to Water Districts I and II in sight. skirt and sea shells out the area, as fans and air conditioners were offer for sale on my table at Christmas in July,” she said. “This is sponsored by the Bladen County ECA snapped up off of store shelves. Shelves of box and By NICOLE CARTRETTE and leaving with soda on July 13.“ window fans that were full Friday in Lowes, Big Lots Staff Writer cans tied to her Mus- and Rose’s were about half-empty Saturday. Other Others sought cooler temperatures however pos- sible. tang? ... retailers, including second-hand stores, reported Progress is in sight for the interconnection “I’m going from the house air conditioner, to the customers asking for air conditioners and fans. between Columbus County Water Districts I car air conditioner to the work air conditioner,” said “I could sell every one I can get—if I could get and II. Teresa Mcpherson “Need I say more?” them,” one storeowner said. Commissioners will consider acceptance of C.P. White joked about the heat, and his attempts A used appliance dealer at the Whiteville Flea a loan and grant package that makes the near County Deaths to stay cool. Market closed up shop early after selling out of his $1.8 million project feasible. “I stick my head in the freezer and look at the air conditioners and fans—and seeing customers The project includes the installation of Klondike Ice cream bar inside,” he said, “and pretend drift away while temperatures down the street at 32,700 feet of 6-inch water mains that will Whiteville I’m in Alaska.” Waccamaw Bank were recorded at 106 degrees. bring county water service to the Thompson Nathan H. McCormick Chris Robeson also laughed about the sticky Other families were taking advantage of holiday Town Road community. The project will make Robert Murphy temperatures. sales to make getting wet a little easier. Pools of all water available to 295 homes, five businesses Riegelwood sizes were a popular commodity at several major and Williams Township School. Another Hazel Squires retailers, from toddler wading pools (also popular See Heat, page 2-A Fannie Bell Brown Grange See Water grant, page 3-A Chadbourn Robin Gail Lucas Bolton Linzy Jacobs Morgan few during three separate tours nHe was wounded while flying a Cessna Bird “He fired a whole magazine. One of the bullets, an armor- Dog doing observation duty and calling in naval piercing round, came through the floor of the plane into gunfire and land-based artillery. the boot on my left leg, and traveled up and lodged just Index below my knee. &EJUPSJBMT" By BOB HIGH Taxied to hospital Staff Writer “My adrenaline kept me going to get back to Phu Bai, 0CJUVBSJFT" and when I landed I saw a Marine hospital at the end of the 4QPSUT# Lloyd Henry Morgan, now 76, was piloting a Cessna taxiway. I taxied over to the door of the hospital, opened $SJNF" 01 Bird Dog, a small plane used for low-level observation my door and fell out. They flew me to Japan the next day,” -JGFTUZMFT" flights in South Vietnam, in 1967 when he was wounded. Morgan stated. Morgan, now of Whiteville, was in his second Vietnam It was Sept. 27, 1967. Morgan had been flying Bird Dogs tour. “I spotted what I thought was a VC headquarters, and for eight months. “I was shot at every day, and I saw a lot I was checking it out. I saw spider holes, of action. I used 16-pound white phosphorus markers for and an outer guard, and what I believed to the attack aircraft to locate when they be a tunnel complex. came in to drop rockets and napalm. “It was almost dark, and I was about 10 “One day I saw some VC running miles from my base at Phu Bai. This guy down a trench toward some Marines. I came out of a spider hole with his AK-47. hit one guy with my shots. Napalm got The VC didn’t usually shoot at me because eight, and we didn’t need the second of the firepower I had, but then I heard jet that was standing by,” he recalled. the rounds. See Morgan, page 2-A Morgan with his plane in Vietnam. 2-A – The News Reporter, Monday, July 2, 2012 This week, on... This week, on... Morgan Continued from page 1-A ‘Any Cat Killer …’ Morgan, a real “Cowboy” “He fired a whole maga- July 2, 2012 because he’s a graduate of zine. One of the bullets, Oklahoma State, said when an armor-piercing round, Do you know where he made flights near the DMZ, came through the floor of your children are? most of the troops he saw were NVA.