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Today’s 5BYFTSFBEZ (JSMTTPDDFS American Profle 5PEBZJTUIF -BEZ1BDLUSJQTrHM features “Te Spirit EFBEMJOFUPêMF 4PVUI#SVOTXJDL of 01776: Massa- Today GFEFSBMJODPNF UPUBLFIVHFTUSJEF chusetts town proves UPXBSE8BDDBNBX UBYSFUVSOT $POGFSFODFUJUMF Sports INSIDE worthy of its patriotic ZIP code.” DUE 4FFQBHF# ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Monday, April 18, 2011 Tornadoes Jolly blocks miss county, Volume 114, Number 83 DA’s driving Whiteville, North Carolina kill four in Bladen school plan 50 Cents nJudge also orders an end to Traffic nStraight-line winds Administration Court. snap trees, damage build- Inside Today ings, block roads here By BOB HIGH 4-A Saturday. Staff Writer r$PYTDBTFTHPJOHUP By BOB HIGH District Attorney Jon David asked Sunday HSBOEKVSZ Staff Writer for “the public to reserve judgment until all r'JSFHVUTCVJMEJOH the facts are in” concerning a judge’s order XIFSFNBOLJMMFE A wave of strong tornadoes late Friday that blocked David’s plan to use a ripped through Bladen County safe-driving program operated by a contribu- and other areas of central tor to his 2010 campaign. and eastern North Carolina Chief District Judge Jerry DIDYOB? Saturday, and killed at least Jolly said David’s plan was 21 people, including four in a “gross impropriety or at a Did you observe ... Bladen County. minimum gives the appear- Meredith Gore and The Bladen dead included ance of a gross impropriety two in the Ammon commu- and brings the criminal jus- Hackney Deans nity, about 12 miles north of tice system into disrepute.” being named the Elizabethtown along N.C. 242, Jolly also ordered an im- and one near Bladenboro, just mediate end to Traffic Admin- queen and king of north of Columbus County. istration Courts in the entire Jolly the Whiteville High There were no reported inju- three-county district. ries in Columbus County. Jolly’s order stopped Da- School Prom Friday At least one funnel cloud vid from assigning many night? ... WHS girls was spotted in this county Sat- young drivers, aged 16 to 21, urday near Cerro Gordo and in Columbus, Bladen and soccer coach Ronnie Evergreen, but it apparently Brunswick counties to take a Todd getting doused never touched the ground. safe-driving program termed with a cooler of ice Damaging winds StreetSafe. Straight-line winds snapped StreetSafe is owned by David water afer his team’s large pines like matchsticks a Douglas Darrell, a former New York and victory over South along Lebanon Church Road Florida police officer living in Castle Hayne, just east of Williams Township who contributed $250 personally to David’s Brunswick Tursday School, and moved northeast 2010 campaign. Another $242.45 was given to night? ... A Colum- to a home along Gore Trailer Jon David by “S Solutions Inc.,” an entity with bus County motorist Road where more large pines the same Castle Hayne address as Darrell, with See Tornadoes, page 10-A Darrell’s wife, Kayne Darrell, shown as the coming upon a one- principal named person. Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist mile stretch of U.S. 74 See Jolly blocks, page 4-A in Robeson County Dual trials Fun on wheels that was completely Karen Hilbourn dances with a student in his wheelchair Friday during the 31st annual Association of Retarded Citizens picnic at Southeast- covered in golf ball- held here ern Community College. Co-sponsored by Columbus County Parks Helena not sized hail Saturday? this week and Recreation, the event offers fun, exercise and a cookout meal to Numerous cars were children and adults with special needs. welcome in stopped beside the nArson case begins to- day, evidence in capi- highway with broken tal murder cases opens Industrial Park windshields and a Wednesday in separate Tool maker celebrates By NICOLE CARTRETTE massive numbers of courtroom. Staff Writer dents. ... Motorists By BOB HIGH 125 years of business Columbus County’s economic development surprised to see a Staff Writer webpage lists 13 vacant industrial buildings By RAY WYCHE cial use items such as firemen’s axes. for sale. A few of those vacant buildings are An estimated 150 people were on school bus working The unusual event of two Staff Writer located in Southeast Regional Park along hand for the program and to view in a New Hope area felony trials at the same time Chadbourn Highway and off of 74-76. a display of tools made by the com- here will feature this week’s It was standing room only at the But officials with Helena, a retail and feld, then discover- pany as engineers and employees court calendars. Lake Waccamaw Depot Museum last wholesaler of agricultural products and chem- explained the purpose of the tools ing that the old bus A charge of arson against Sunday afternoon as friends and icals, who planned to purchase the former and how they were made from high- Allen Wayne “Frog” Strick- workers gathered at a special pro- Coca-Cola distribution facility in the park and had been modifed grade steel. land, 19, of Tabor City, opens gram Council Tool Company put on expand it to include a fertilizer mixing facility Details of the manufacturing pro- into a piece of heavy today (Monday) with jury se- in observance of the company’s 125 found out last week they are not welcome at cedures were described by workers at lection in the District Court- years of making forged tools. the more than 160-acre park. duty farm equip- the plant, with vice president Pickett room with Superior Court An attraction that caught people’s Zoning at the park is one issue. County tax Council and fire and export manager ment?... Judge Jack Hooks Jr. presid- interest was a big display of some of cards list the properties in the park as KF—CR Margo Council, fourth generations ing. the items manufactured by the com- and tax maps include a special identification: of the Council family to take part in And, a 15-person jury is pany in their plant in the Wananish “residential-agriculture. Note: Contact plan- the business, relating some of the scheduled to begin hearing community. ning for industrial uses.” company’s history and serving as Wednesday the state’s evi- Workers and company officials “We had an interest in the Coca-Cola facil- masters of ceremonies. County Deaths dence against Danny Lamont described their jobs and explained ity and thought all that had to be done was The company got its start by Thomas, 38, formerly of Chad- some of the complex operations re-zoning,” Todd Childers, Whiteville Helena manufacturing turpentine “hacks,” Whiteville bourn, charged with killing involved in turning a piece of high- branch manager said Friday after being con- the curved blade knives used to strip Margaret M. Holloway four people here in 2005. carbon steel into axes, bush knives tacted by The News Reporter. Elizabeth “Lib” Cole and other hand tools, and some spe- See Council Tool, page 9-A See Helena, page 3-A Pauline Brock Clewis See Trials, page 4-A Annie Mae Baldwin Elmore Jackson Tabor City Willie King ‘Blue Monday’ shad feasting gets new life By RAY WYCHE in a relaxing setting. keep alive. Staff Writer This year, the event is set for Saturday, April 23 “Blue Monday is unique to this area,” she says. “It Index at the Lock and Dam No. 1 picnic area, but following goes back to plantation days. At every landing on the A Riegelwood area woman wants her neighbors tradition, shad will be cooking along the riverbank river there was a plantation and there were slaves. &EJUPSJBMT" to be more aware of the blessings of living along the on Monday, April 25. “My mission is to convey some of the thoughts 0CJUVBSJFT" Cape Fear River. Keaton chose an appropriate day to bring new and feelings of our ancestors — the ones who left The first pale green that shows in the riverside life to an old custom of riverside shad eating: Blue no written history but instead put it in the ears of 4QPSUT# springtime foliage bordering the Cape Fear around Monday. their descendants who kept it until I asked,” she says. $SJNF" Lock and Dam No. 1, between East Arcadia and You won’t find Blue Monday designated as a Keaton has written numerous articles aimed at -JGFTUZMFT" Riegelwood, means that the shad, that tasty fish holiday in any list, and as far as is known, it is cel- enlightening rural southeastern North Carolina that is available for only a few weeks each spring, ebrated only in the extreme northeastern corner residents of their history. are running. of Columbus County and the southeastern tip of “I want our people to be aware of our relationship Earnestine Keaton, a native of the area who re- Bladen County. with the Cape Fear River,” she says. “When we said turned to the community of her birth upon retiring Blue Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and river, we meant the Cape Fear.” in New York City, felt that her former neighbors and a day of shad cookouts along the river. Blue Mon- Keaton remembers her childhood along the Cape kin were not properly appreciative of the advantage day along the river in the Riegelwood-East Arcadia Fear, especially shad fishing. of residing next to a river. neighborhoods is still a special day, usually marked “They would haul shad nets seven days a week in Three years ago she almost singlehandedly began by get-togethers along the Cape Fear. shad season. We would eat shad until we didn’t want the Shad Festival to rejuvenate and bring order to a “It’s more like a reunion than a holiday,” she says any more,” she says.

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