ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Monday, July 4, 2011 Trafc Court Lawmakers reinstated Volume 121, Number 1 Whiteville, North Carolina as stay lifed look to shif 50 Cents nSupreme Court decision congressional comes three months be- fore state requires such Inside Today courts in all counties. district east 4-A By BOB HIGH By NICOLE CARTRETTE r'FMPOZQMFBTUBLFO Staff Writer Staff Writer JODPVSU Traffic Court in Columbus, GOP redistricting leaders did not draw r.BOBSSFTUFEGPS Bladen and Brunswick coun- any congressmen out of their districts in TFMMJOHQJMMT ties – abolished three months redistricting proposals released Friday but ago by Chief District Court some say it will be difficult for several Demo- Judge Jerry Jolly – will return crat incumbents to win an election in their “as soon as possible,” based on reshaped districts. a decision to by the N.C. Su- Rep. Mike McIntyre is one of them. The preme Court to stay the order Lumberton Democrat was first elected to while it waits to hear argu- Congress in 1997 but his home county and ments involving a new driving city would be divided into separate districts, school program. according to maps released. District Attorney Jon Da- District 7 is presently made up of Bruns- vid said Sunday the return wick, Pender, Duplin, Bladen, Robeson, Cum- of Traffic Court would be “a berland, part of Sampson and all of Columbus tremendous benefit” to drivers County. ticketed for infractions such The new district would take in more of Today’s as speeding and other minor the coast and run up to and include parts highway actions. of Carteret County, taking large portions of American Profle The N.C. Legislature or- features “Regal Eagle,” dered traffic courts to begin by See Congressional District, page 2-A how a rescued baby October in all counties, so the return of the speedy method bird grew up to be- of handling minor highway come a soaring na- infractions was to begin again, Deadline for tional superstar. regardless of the outcome of the pending Supreme Court matter. rescue squad DIDYOB? David appealed a decision Did you observe ... by the N.C. Court of Appeals See Traffic court, page 4-A certifcation Te Tabor City freworks Photo by Krystal Hawkins extravaganza play- Early Fourth was July 1 ing to another banner Columbus County started its crowd Friday night? ... Waccamaw Fourth of July celebration early, nCounty board must make decision on one squad. Trinity Baptist Church’s to appeal with freworks in Tabor City Fri- day care kids celebrat- day evening. Technicians set up By NICOLE CARTRETTE ing Independence Day NASDAQ on the football team’s practice Staff Writer early with a Fourth of feld for the audience around the July parade Friday? ... football feld. Residents at Lake Commissioners may grant one rescue decision squad in Columbus County an extension of Lake Waccamaw visitor Waccamaw will provide the larg- time for members to obtain EMT Intermediate nOfficials working with Camille Brown getting est displays tonight. certification. audit firm to get financial stuck Sunday in the only Two years ago the county called for new statements filed. contracts with the independent non-profits mud hole in Columbus that provide service in the county via fran- County? ... Waccamaw Bankshares chise agreements. Those agreements, among said Friday it is appealing a other things, required all squads to be certi- decision that could result in its No county schools fied to provide at least the Intermediate level common stock being de-listed of emergency medical care to patients across County Deaths from the NASDAQ Global the county. Whiteville Market. chief in place yet Earlier this month, Cerro Gordo Fire and In a letter to Waccamaw of- Rescue Chief Terry Floyd indicated that his Lona Bowen Powell had been hospitalized last week ficials on June 24, the Listing By FULLER ROYAL squad, the smallest in the county with only one with complications from a knee Angela Benton King Qualifications Department of Staff Writer ambulance, likely would not meet the July 1 Edgar Hud Barnes NASDAQ said it was denying infection. He was released from the deadline but was working on it. Chadbourn the company’s request for The Columbus County Schools hospital but was unable to attend the Last week, County Emergency Services Betty McDufe continued listing. NASDAQ does not have a new leader yet. interviews. Director Jeremy Jernigan could not say what notified the company on April Last Thursday, the Columbus Faulk, the assistant superinten- Lucille Young actions, if any, would be taken. 4 and June 24 that the company County Board of Education inter- dent for the school system, has been Jernigan said he planned to meet with Henry Lee Young did not comply with NASDAQ’s viewed the five finalists for the job. acting as interim superintendent Floyd this week to “see how close” the squad Evergreen filing requirements for con- Two applicants are from the since the departure of Dan Strick- is to reaching its certification. Sadie Louise Packer tinued listing because it had county schools and include interim land, who retired from the post in Jernigan said it would be up to commission- Hallsboro not filed its 2010 annual report superintendent Alan Faulk. One is March. ers to determine what happens next. “They are or its quarterly report for the When the board meets for its July Tomas W. Brown Jr. from the Whitevlle City Schools and the ones that signed the contract,” Jernigan quarter ended March 31 with two are from out of the county. 11 meeting, Dew is expected to be said, hesitant to discuss what options may be Fair Bluf the Securities and Exchange Absent from the interviews was present. A decision on the new super- available. H.L. Turbeville Commission. board member Junior Dew, who intendent could be made that night. “We have talked about several different op- Clarendon See NASDAQ, page 3-A Lois Jeanette Beck See Rescue, page 3-A Tabor City Joann Faulk Lake Waccamaw Barbara Walters Lazzara Fourth of July at lake not what it used to be By RAY WYCHE of horse and mule-drawn conveyances. From this parking Staff Writer area, the celebrants walked to the lake shore, where the ac- tion was taking place. Index Helen Barefoot Pope says they don’t do Fourth of Julys “There were no houses between the railroad and the lake &EJUPSJBMT" like they used to. (perhaps only one by the railroad),” she says. The Hallsboro area native, who will observe her 96th The Fourth at the lake was a dress-up occasion, she 0CJUVBSJFT" birthday in October, was raised on a farm where the entire remembers. Women would work for weeks preparing new 4QPSUT# family pitched in to get the crops planted, tended and har- dresses for themselves and their children to wear for this $SJNF" vested, and where leisure time was limited. most special occasion. -JGFTUZMFT" But her family did manage to work in a few summertime “We made our dresses. We didn’t wear pants; all the girls trips to nearby Lake Waccamaw, and one July 4 trip stands wore dresses and the boys wore short pants,” she says, out in her memory. It was in the first quarter of the last “They had a lot going on on the Fourth of July,” Pope says. century, when the Fourth of July to many people meant a “Churches and clubs had a lot of things to sell – lemonade day at the lake. and different kinds of food. They had a dance hall and you “We left pretty early in the morning by mule and wagon,” could rent a bathing suit but I never did.” she remembers, for the Fourth of July celebration. This Pope said there was also a motorboat that carried pas- was a trip to the “front side” of Lake Waccamaw, on the sengers out on the lake for a fee. north shore. Pope says most of her visits to the lake ended The highlight of the day, Pope says, was the picnic lunch at Dupree Landing. that the ladies of her household had prepared. There was The area around the road that is now Broadway on the usually a bucket of lemonade, she says. “We had to buy our ice.” lake town maps was wooded in the early years of the last Buying ice was also a rare purchase. “We didn’t have money Helen Barefoot Pope century, and served as the parking area of the large number See Old Fourth, page 2-A 2-A – The News Reporter, Monday, July 4, 2011 This week, on... This week, on... Black Rock Bridge July 4, 2011 repairs Whiteville.com Reader Photos complete By JEFFERSON WEAVER Staff Writer Repairs to a vital bridge linking three counties were completed ahead of schedule last week. An excavator struck the The proposed congressional districts. trusses and girders of the N.C. 11 bridge at Black Rock earlier this spring, according Congressional District the Drew Cox of the N.C. De- Continued from page 1-A partment of Transportation. The machine caused extensive damage to the structure, which Robeson, Duplin and Sampson is used by hundreds of cars out of the district and adding and transfer trucks daily. Onslow County. Located on the Bladen-Co- District 7 congressional can- “This green mamba was lumbus county line over the didate Ilario Pantano, defeated killed by my fiance’s Cape Fear River, the bridge is in 2010 when McIntyre took brother in Africa after it only a few miles from Pender slightly less than 54 percent of attacked the windshield of County.