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You can win Te 2012 Annual Bridal Edition is included a Kindle Fire in today’s issue. It features three couples See the ad on page planning their upcoming nuptials and 11-A for details. dozens of local vendors helping with those Inside plans. ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Tursday, June 7, 2012 Whiteville Board signs sewer spills Volume 121, Number 97 Whiteville, North Carolina into home intent with 75 Cents By JEFFERSON WEAVER fuel company Staff Writer By NICOLE CARTRETTE Whiteville officials say they Staff Writer Inside Today did not have to report a sewer spill after Tropical Storm Columbus County commissioners, in a 6-1 2-A Beryl because of the small size vote, approved a letter of intent with Standard r/FX/$-#HPBMTTFU of the spill, so no public notice Oil International (SOI) Monday night. GPSTUVEFOUT was required. Officials say the company plans to build a The city also didn’t immedi- $35 million plant that will convert trash into 3-A ately report the spill, because diesel fuel on county-owned land at the closed officials said the spill was landfill at New Hope. r$PVOUZTDIPPMTOFFE comprised primarily of storm- Standard Oil International officials told GPVSOFXQSJODJQBMT See Sewer, page 5-A county officials Monday via text message that an article appearing in the June 4 edition of 5-A The News Reporter about one of the company’s r$IBECPVSOMPPLJOH Chadbourn says executives confused the company’s board BUESBJOBHFJTTVFT chairman with another of the same name. yes to Waste “I did contact Mr. (Melvin) Ezzell, (SOI’s director of business development for South- Management eastern N.C.),” Columbus County Economic DIDYOB? nBoard thanks competi- Development Director Gary Lanier told the tion. board. “There may be a confusion of identi- Did you observe ... ties involved.” By JEFFERSON WEAVER Lanier said that Ezzell had sent a text mes- Sally Jo Medford and Staff Writer sage stating that an attorney with the com- pany was “tasked” with contacting The News Rachel Smith, preg- Chadbourn’s Town Council See Oil company, page 8-A nant friends whose voted Tuesday to open negotia- tions with Waste Management babies are due this to remove trash from the town, Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist week, eating pine- but not before thanking Waste Industries. Aging building expansion Hospital gets apple and walking “If it were not for you being Sonny Sampson, left, and Carlos DeLeon lay brick on the facade of the two miles in an ef- in the mix,” Mayor Kenneth Columbus County Department of Aging building expansion Wednesday. Waddell told Norma Yanez of extended lease fort to induce labor Waste Industries,” we wouldn’t By NICOLE CARTRETTE be here today, and the people of Tuesday evening? ... Staff Writer Blake Ashley skydiv- Chadbourn would be paying significantly more money.” It’s official. ing two and a half Columbus Regional Healthcare System has See Chadbourn, page 5-A miles up Sunday in a lease with the county on its hospital facility until 2043. Louisburg? ... Karen Under the terms of the lease the hospital Harwood, wife of will continue pay all sums due to the county Fair Bluf on debt service for bonds issued in 1997 and Whiteville High pay any future debt service on an estimated School Baseball narrows $25 million in debt for future renovations. Commissioners would not consider the Coach Brett Har- lease without changes that would promise wood, leaving her lists for the board an additional voice on the hospital board via a second commissioner to serve, seat during Satur- chief, clerk language that would put the hospital as the day’s championship lead on a future wellness center project and nTown sets interviews guarantee that future properties acquired by game to change into next week. Vets honored here with the hospital would remain on the county tax her “lucky pants” rolls despite any nonprofit status. By ALLEN TURNER event on Flag Day, June 14 County Commissioner Chairman Amon that she had worn in Staff Writer McKenzie said he saw nothing in the lease to Congressman Mike McIntyre will and the proper way to display and provide for a second commissioner to serve the previous playof speak here Thursday, June 14, at spe- handle it. The Fair Bluff Board of on the 10-member hospital board. cial ceremonies honoring veterans Youth in the county are encour- wins? Te clothing Commissioners, meeting in Hawthorne said he thought previous dis- on Flag Day. aged to attend this free event, and regular monthly session Tues- cussion on the matter was just discussion change must have The event is scheduled at 6 p.m. the public is invited to attend, par- day night, went into a 130-min- not a vote. at the Vineland Emporium on South ticularly men and women who have worked as WHS ute closed session to discuss “When they make a comment they are seri- Madison Street. served in any branch of the United went on to win the personnel matters. In open ous,” McKenzie said. The program is centered around States armed forces. session it was announced that McKenzie told Hawthorne the hospital championship 3-1 the American flag and what it means Special presentations will be made the board had winnowed down would need to take the lead on a wellness over Randleman. ... the list of applicants for the to the average citizen. It will include by local service groups during the some of the original flag’s history event in the old Leder Brothers store. See Hospital, page 11-A See Fair Bluff, page 7-A County Deaths Whiteville WWII vet Freeman recalls D-Day landing Laura Lee By RAY WYCHE And of the two Nor- dropped down on moved with the frontline infantry in Jackie C. Smith Staff Writer mandy, France, beaches a beach to allow the long, bloody march across France Chadbourn American forces were ex- men and vehicles and Germany. The LST that brought Robert “Curtis” Rush George Freeman grew up around pected to conquer, his engi- t o g e t a s h o r e him to war was loaded with Army ve- the peaceful fields of the Farmers neering unit was assigned quickly and as hicles of all types, including a tracked Douglas “Frog” Martin Jr. Union community, a close-knit group to the one code-named safely as possi- vehicle that could unfold metal run- Tabor City of farm families between Hallsboro Omaha Beach. ble. Oftentimes, ways to almost instantly establish a Jesse James and Clarkton. “That was the rough the LST would bridge across narrow streams. For a few months beginning with one,” he says. German re- r u n a g r o u n d His unit’s tasks mainly involved a few incredible hours 68 years ago in sistance, and consequently before reaching building temporary bridges across wa- countries he did not choose to visit, American casualties, sur- the beach, and terways where the enemy had blown Index Freeman undoubtedly longed to be passed the comparatively Freeman recalls up the existing spans in futile efforts to &EJUPSJBMT" back home, tilling the fruitful earth easy fighting with fewer wading in the stop the advance of Allied troops, and of his father’s farm. wounded and dead on the surf from the patching blown up sections of roads. 0CJUVBSJFT" Freeman is one of the world’s rela- second assigned U. S. land- George Freeman LST to the killing An ancillary duty of Freeman’s was 4QPSUT# tively few survivors of the D-Day inva- ing area, Utah Beach. grounds that were to act as supervisor — not a cook — of $SJNF" sion of Continental Europe on June 6, Freeman left England aboard a Omaha Beach. the field kitchen that traveled along -JWJOH$ 1944, where 175,000 men from all over U.S. Navy LST (Landing Ship Tank), The 91-year-old Freeman was a the globe met in high-casualty combat. a specialized vessel with a bow that sergeant in a construction unit that See Freeman, page 3-A 2-A – The News Reporter, Thursday, June 7, 2012 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 Baseline Baseline Baseline Baseline Baseline Baseline Baseline Reading Reading Reading Reading Reading Reading Reading Subgroup 3-8 HS 3-8 HS 3-8 HS 3-8 HS 3-8 HS 3-8 HS 3-8 HS Total (All students) 70.5 86.0 73.0 87.2 75.4 88.3 77.9 89.5 80.3 90.7 82.8 91.8 85.3 93.0 Native American 57.7 73.1 61.2 75.3 64.8 77.6 68.3 79.8 71.8 82.1 75.3 84.3 78.9 86.6 Asian 79.1 87.3 80.8 88.4 82.6 89.4 84.3 90.5 86.1 91.5 87.8 92.6 89.6 93.7 Black 54.0 75.8 57.8 77.8 61.7 79.8 65.5 81.9 69.3 83.9 73.2 85.9 77.0 87.9 Hispanic 57.6 78.4 61.1 80.2 64.7 82.0 68.2 83.8 71.7 85.6 75.3 87.4 78.8 89.2 Multiracial 73.4 88.6 75.6 89.6 77.8 90.5 80.1 91.5 82.3 92.4 84.5 93.4 86.7 94.3 White 81.7 92.4 83.2 93.0 84.8 93.7 86.3 94.3 87.8 94.9 89.3 95.6 90.9 96.2 Economically Disadvantaged 57.9 77.0 61.4 78.9 64.9 80.8 68.4 82.8 71.9 84.7 75.4 86.6 79.0 88.5 Limited English Proficient 37.2 36.7 42.4 42.0 47.7 47.3 52.9 52.5 58.1 57.8 63.4 63.1 68.6 68.4 Students with Disabilities 39.5 46.3 44.5 50.8 49.6 55.3 54.6 59.7 59.7 64.2 64.7 68.7 69.8 73.2 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 Baseline Baseline Baseline Baseline Baseline Baseline Baseline Math Math Math Math Math Math Math Subgroup 3-8 HS 3-8 HS 3-8 HS 3-8 HS 3-8 HS 3-8 HS 3-8 HS Total (All students) 82.8 82.5 83.7 84.0 85.2 85.4 86.7 86.9 88.1 88.3 89.6 89.8 91.1 91.3 Native American 74.8 72.9 76.9 75.2 79.0 77.4 81.1 79.7 83.2 81.9 85.3 84.2 87.4 86.5 Asian 91.7 91.5 92.4 92.2 93.1 92.9 93.8 93.6 94.5 94.3 65.2 95.0 95.9 95.8 Black 68.8 69.4 71.4 72.0 74.0 74.5 76.6 77.1 79.2 79.6 81.8 82.2 84.4 84.7 Hispanic 78.4 79.1 80.2 80.8 82.0 82.6 83.8 84.3 85.6 86.1 87.4 87.8 89.2 89.6 Multiracial 83.5 83.3 84.9 84.7 86.3 86.1 87.6 87.5 89.0 88.9 90.4 90.3 91.8 91.7 White 89.5 89.6 90.4 90.1 91.3 91.0 92.1 91.9 93.0 92.8 93.9 93.7 94.8 94.6 Economically Disadvantaged 74.0 73.5 76.2 75.7 78.3 77.9 80.5 80.1 82.7 82.3 84.8 84.5 87.0 86.8 Limited English Proficient 68.5 52.2 71.1 56.2 73.8 60.2 76.4 64.2 79.0 68.1 81.6 72.1 84.3 76.1 Students with Disabilities 56.3 46.5 59.9 51.0 63.6 55.4 67.2 59.9 70.9 64.3 74.5 68.8 78.2 73.3 As part of North Carolina’s No Child Left Behind waiv- of that goal.

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