I THE FORUAM COMPANY UONUOUTH, ILL. 61462 First Of The Week t &t0t&tl0tom ®imt* Edition ESTABLISHED 1797 IN COUNTY $7.00 IN STATE 18.00 Georgetown, S.C. 29440 Tuesday, September 3, 1974 Vol. 178 No. 81 OUT OF STATE $9.00 Church Plans Tax Commission Expansion Historic All Saints, Wac­ suite of offices, a nursery, a Asked To Cut camaw, Episcopal Church at parlor for the women's ac­ Pawleys Island has launched an tivities and a kitchen. exciting long-range expansion The estimated cost of the of its present facilities that will, long-range buildings will be hopefully, preserve its tradition about $255,000. of the past and successfully Over the estimated 20-year engage the future as well as the building program in addition to present. the Parish Hall, will be a new Property Levies The Reverend John H. church and later a new Templeton, rector of All Saints Educational Building. for the past four years, said this The Hall is now oeing con­ The attorney for three their property reassessed, "it presented before the week that due to growth of the tracted across the road from All would open the door for other Georgetown County board. community, All Saints Vestry Waccamaw Neck property Saints and upon completion of owners has asked the State Tax Waccamaw Neck property The Kingstree attorney said decided upon steps to meet the the new church some years owners to press for the same that he attacked a property tax anticipated needs of the Commission to rule either that from now, it will face the the recent reassessment of all action. reassessment formula based on membership and prospective present church. land sales which was used by members of the church. property in that area is invalid, Although Marlowe said that The new construction is being or that his clients' property be he had no idea when the Tax County Auditor L. H. Siau in the The foundation for the some architecturally keyed to the old reassessed downwards. Commission would hand down reassessment of Waccamaw All Saints Church. 7,000 square feet building, to LaNue Floyd, a Williamsburg its ruling in the case, "I feel Neck lands in 1973. be known as the "Parish Hall" The pink-brown exterior will fairly optimistic about it. If I Floyd said he contended that be duplicated and similar County lawyer and state has been laid and anticipated senator, made that plea before didn't, I never would have Siau used the formula in completion will be in April of window and columnar details started this." computing the taxes for his will be used. the Tax Commission last 1975. Thursday in an appeal hearing However, Marlowe added three dints' property, rather The Hall will contain a This presents something of a stemming out of a judgment that he and the two other than reassessing their lands 'spacious assembly area which problem, Mr. Templeton said, against the three plaintiffs by plaintiffs will take their case individually. That formula, said will be used for meetings in that many building ac­ the Georgetown County Board of against property tax Floyd, isn't in accordance with dinners and other community cessories such as the windows Tax Appeals. reassessments to the courts if state law, which requires that activities. and shutters must be specially the Tax Commission doesn't property be reassessed based The complex will include a Artist's Conception Of Pawleys Island Church Expansion Should the three-member CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 board of the Tax Commission rule in their favor. on individual fair market value. which heard the appeal rule in "We'll take whatever further He added that the Due To Tight Economy favor of the three property steps are necessary. I wouldn't reassessment of all Waccamaw owners, it would have drop it at this point," he added. Neck property owners' land was resounding repercussions for Marlowe, W. E. Vereen and discriminatory, since other other property taxpayers in the Mrs. Rosa Parker are con­ portions of the county weren't Waccamaw Neck, according to testing that the 1973 included in the auditor's Frank Marlowe of Pawleys reassessment of * their reassessment program. Mall Development Plan Shelved Island, one of the plaintiffs in respective properties is Floyd also said that the the case. discriminatory, inequitable and reassessment of their property Plans for commercial the Interior official labelled the properties valued at $16 million. lenders holding $24 million in property was filled in, plans for Marlowe said after the one illegal, according fo Floyd. was uneven, since it didn't take development of property south Corps' practice a "dangerous Company president Keith B. debt, to continue to fund the the land reportedly included an and a half hour hearing in Floyd said he argued the case into account the value of each of U.S. Highway 17 across from procedure." Belser said that agreements construction operations of the enclosed shopping mall a motel Columbia that even if the Tax before three members of the particular parcel, but used the the Holiday Inn have been Company officials promised had also been reached with two company. condominiums and a public Commission rules in favor of Tax Commission on the same formula instead. postponed hy the developer. announcements about com­ of the firm's largest secured At the time tbe Georgetown •oarin-l the plaintiffs' request to have evidence *hat he had earlier CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 mercial development plans after the land was filled in, but A spokesman for the Belser none have been forthcoming. Co., Inc., of Columbia said last The spokesman for the Harbor Dredging week that due to "present company- one of the South's circumstances" in the largest developers-said that economy, plans for the con­ the firm is "in the position most struction of an enclosed other companies are in" shopping mall and other To Begin Friday financially. facilities would be delayed "a good while." However, the spokesman Dredging of the Georgetown disposal site in the ocean. added that the postponement of Harbor entrance channel is A spokesman for the The Belser Co. had the low- plans to develop the land had scheduled to begin this Friday. Charleston District of the Corps lying land filled in with dredged nothing to do with recent The Corps of Engineers' U. S. said last week that the Gerig material from Winyah Bay last petitions filed by the company hopper dredge Gerig will arrive would be delayed in arriving in spring. During that operation, and a subsidiary for federal for three weeks of dredging the Georgetown from its work in the company had a request court protection under Chapter outer bar at the entrance to the Port Royal. It is scheduled to approved for doubling the X of the Bankruptcy Act. harbor down to a 27-foot leave there on Wednesday, take amount of fill from 150,000 cubic Concurrent with the petition authorized depth. on supplies in Charleston yards to 300,000 cubic yards, filing, Belser reported it had The dredging will remove Thursday and arrive for work at although the Corps of Engineers reached a preliminary approximately 350,000 cubic the channel entrance on Friday. didn't advertise that request agreement with a Philadelphia yards of sand and silt at the The work is part of the Corps' through a public notice underwriting group towards channel entrance, and it will be annual maintenance dredging procedure. One Department of refinancing apartment complex deposited at a designated of the Georgetown harbor. Plant ers ville To Ask FHA For Water System Funding The Greater Plantersville The application caps a two pered, according to the board, from the Government In­ Water Co. is planning to submit and a half year struggle by the by the "impounding" of $150 formation Service and the local an application for a rural water Board to build up enough in­ million of the FHA's rural water FHA office in Andrews that the system to the Farmers House terest within the community to funds by the Nixon ad­ money was again available. GRACIOUS PLACE-One of the most historic and 1910, "The Hermitage" is noted for its lovely ap­ Administration sometime in warrant funding from FHA for ministration. However, the During the past two and a half September, the company's the construction of the system. impounding was lifted in the years, the board has been gracious plantation homes along the Coastal parition, Alice Belin Flagg. Mr. Willcox welcomes Board of Directors announced Interest in the Plantersville first week of August, and the collecting membership fees of Lowcountry is "The Hermitage", owned by Mr. a group of young ladies from Georgetown who have last week. area for the system was ham­ board received information $10 and a "water fee" of $60 and Mrs. Clarke Allen Willcox, Jr. of Murrells come to visit "Alice's Room" at the head of the within the community that Inlet. Besides having been a portion of a 937-acre stairs. See story on page 5 canvases some 240 families. tract purchased by Mr. Willcox, Sr. of Marion in The board reported that since Citizens Meet To Map Out the "impounding" was lifted, !C»l«?irj«. Federal Objection Withdrawn figure the Board feels will show All-America City Contest the FHA the community's sincere interest in the project, Interested citizens' groups and that the Plantersville area met last week to map out plans is prepared to meet its financial obligation for the system. McClellanville Annexes leading to Georgetown's entry Television Station in an All-America Cities contest Abie Ladson, chairman of the next year.