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County High Schools' Test Scores Among Highest 'PVSXFFLT r1PTUGBMMTUP1JUU$PVOUZJO MFѫUPQSFQBSF UIJSESPVOEFMJNJOBUJPOHBNF GPS-BCPS%BZ r1PTUDBQUVSFTTUBUF-FHJPO XFFLFOET UJUMFr&BTU$PMVNCVTXJOT1POZ UBJM8PSME4FSJFT4QPSUTNBOTIJQ 5BLFUIF-BLF Sports "XBSE4FFQBHF# ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Monday, August 6, 2012 Car-truck wreck kills mother, daughter near Fair Bluf nDeaths raise county toll this Volume 122, Number 11 year to nine. Whiteville, North Carolina By BOB HIGH 75 Cents Staff Writer A 49-year-old woman and her 26-year- old daughter were killed Thursday after- Inside Today noon in the crash of a car, driven by the 4-A mother, that abruptly turned left in front of a passing 18-wheel grain truck just east r:PVUIBSSFTUFEJO of Fair Bluff. DPOWFOJFODFTUPSF Highway Patrol Trooper Gene Nance CSFBLJO said Pamela Casto Hamilton, 49, of Dave Meares Road, Cerro Gordo, died at the r'PVSIVSUJO$IBE scene in the 2:19 p.m. crash. Jennifer Dawn Bigley Sanders of the 11100 block CPVSOXSFDL'SJEBZ Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist of U.S. 76, Fair Bluff, died at a Loris, S.C., A mother and her daughter in this Ford Taurus were killed when a tractor-trailer slammed into their See Fatalities, page 4-A car on Andrew Jackson Highway east of Fair Bluff early Thursday afternoon. County high schools’ test scores among highest SCHS ties with Hoggard for highest score in six-county area By FULLER ROYAL of Excellence for the first time. school (68.4 percent proficient) among students were 87 percent proficient. Staff Writer Third overall was West Columbus the 19 traditional high schools con- Last year, it was named a North Caro- High School with an 89.8 percent pro- sistently included in state testing lina School of Excellence for the first Two of the Columbus County ficiency rate. results stories in The News Reporter. time with 90.5 percent of its students Schools traditional high schools tied or East Columbus High School was Those high schools are in Columbus, proficient. Today’s outperformed the 17 other traditional ranked eighth with a proficiency rate Bladen, Brunswick, Pender, Robeson CCCA began as Southeastern Early American Profle high schools in the six counties of of 84.6 percent. and New Hanover counties. All but College, a joint effort among the county Southeastern North Carolina in North WCHS and ECHS were recognized New Hanover geographically adjoin schools, the city schools and Southeast- features “Simple Carolina’s 2012 EOG/EOC scores. A as North Carolina Schools of Distinc- Columbus. ern Community College. Snacks.” Eight easy third outscored 11 of the others. tion. CCCA Two years into the program, the city recipes to energize In the overall proficiency rate com- Columbus County’s non-traditional The Columbus College and Career schools pulled out, fearing it was los- posites for reading and math, students high school, the Columbus Career and Academy enjoyed the highest profi- ing too many of its “best and brightest your kids afer at South Columbus High School tied College Academy in Fair Bluff, scored ciency rate ever in Columbus County students” to the early college school school. with New Hanover County’s Hoggard 93.2 percent proficient, earning it the – 93.3 percent. where students could earn a high High School for the top spot among tra- North Carolina Honor School of Excel- In 2009, its students were 68.7 per- school degree and, for free, an associ- ditional high schools with proficiency lence rating. cent proficient. As the school grew ate’s college degree in just five years. rates of 91.1 percent each. SCHS was Whiteville High School was the and the number of faculty members DIDYOB? See High schools, page 2-A Did you observe ... recognized as a North Carolina School lowest performing traditional high increased, scores went up. In 2010, the Amused diners at the Southern Kitchen in Public hearing Shell building Whiteville Saturday County could set beaver night watching UNC- on county water under contract TV’s Bob Garner flm bounty at $30 per tail nProject Cinema to bring ‘good pay- n‘It never works,’ says with trappers using a county a segment for North hook-up tonight ing’ jobs. one official. agreement form that “certi- Carolina Weekend? By NICOLE CARTRETTE fies that the tagged beaver By NICOLE CARTRETTE Te program will air Staff Writer By NICOLE CARTRETTE tails were trapped on prop- Staff Writer Tursday at 9 p.m. Staff Writer erty located in Columbus Signing on to Columbus County water will County.” and Friday at 8 p.m. ... become a requirement rather than an option An unidentified company plans to purchase It has not been effective in Trappers must obtain for some new homeowners and developers, the shell building on Chadbourn Highway Houses torn down on some places, officials admit, a vendor number with the under ordinance changes set for a vote tonight. near Southeastern Community College. but Columbus County com- county and must turn in Leslie Newsome Drive, Today, those who construct new homes, A start-up firm plans to invest $5 million in missioners will consider a “whole, frozen, tagged bea- with the exception of large residential devel- the county and eventually hire 15 employees, Church Street and Jef- beaver bounty pilot program ver tails in sealed bags on opers, have the option of drilling a private well officials say. ferson Street in White- tonight that could pay as designated second and fourth or tapping on to county water, if it is available. A project of the Committee of 100, the shell much as $30 for each tagged Mondays of each month. ville last week? ... Tonight, commissioners will consider building has been vacant since its completion beaver caught in the county. Tails must be in lots of three amendments to both the county’s subdivision 12 years ago, Columbus County Economic The county’s Beaver Man- or more. and manufactured home park ordinances. Developer Gary Lanier said. agement Committee, recently No more than 10 tags will The changes would require homeowners Friday, the Columbus County Economic formed, is proposing that the be issued to one person at a and developers within 300 feet of an existing Development Commission recommended the County Deaths county make the payment time. It may take two to four water line to tap on to the county water system. unidentified company for an incentive grant available to trappers who are weeks for payment through Whiteville Major subdivisions with more than 10 lots that will equal about $160,000 over a five-year defined as “anyone using a the county finance office. or homes are already required to tap on to period. Charles W. Burris legal means of beaver man- “Spot checks and follow-up county water lines if they are within 1,000 feet “I can’t tell you a whole lot about it because Simon Jenkins agement in accordance with phone calls will be performed of the development. they can lose their competitive advantage on Chadbourn the laws of the N.C. Wildlife randomly,” according to the The county’s mobile home park ordinance their game plan, but it does involve the shell Commission.” plan. Sarah Horne Carter currently calls for mobile home parks to tap on building,” Lanier said. Under the proposal, li- In 2007, Sampson County Marie L. McRae to any source of water approved by the health The closing has not taken place yet, but a censed trappers may request abandoned a bounty program department including private wells. sales contract is in place, Lanier said. Jennifer Dawn Sanders to be added to a contractor’s it had for years. The county Under the requested proposal, “any” pro- “I am trying to do everything I can to make Fair Bluf list. Landowners contract See Beaver, page 12-A Leroy Miller See Water, page 9-A See Shell, page 2-A Tabor City Clara Bell Green William Clifon Sarvis Nakina Powell wounded by Viet Cong booby trap Bessie Ernestine Smith nHad two tours in South Vietnam, leave because of the death of his father, and one on ground, second in helicopter. when he returned to duty he was assigned to the post of door gunner on a Huey helicopter Index By BOB HIGH gunship. Staff Writer “I’d been using an M-60 machine gun with &EJUPSJBMT" the 101st Airborne, and they decided my ex- 0CJUVBSJFT" “It seemed like I walked from one end of perience the country to the other during my first tour, with the 4QPSUT# M-60 was $SJNF" so I figured I’d fly the second time I went to South Vietnam,” said Zacharias Roger Pow- what they -JGFTUZMFT" ell, 63, of Whiteville. needed, so During his first tour, Powell was a mem- they made ber of B Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infan- me a door try of the 101st Airborne Division, and got gunner,” to Vietnam in the spring of 1967. he related. “We didn’t jump over there, we went Powell was wounded during his first everywhere by helicopter, and most of the stretch of duty in Vietnam when a Viet time we were called to go and be a support Cong booby trap exploded and he got some unit for other units caught in a firefight,” shrapnel in his face, right hand and left Powell recalled. knee. “We’d just landed on a hill, and a guy tripped a hand-grenade booby trap that had Door gunner Roger Powell is silhouetted in the door of a Huey gunship Powell was sent home on compassionate See Powell, page 9-A during his second tour in South Vietnam in 1968. 2-A – The News Reporter, Monday, August 6, 2012 Overall Proficiency Rates for Reading and Math Combined Met Expected Met High This week, on..
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