r4UBMMJPOTCVNQ(BUPST i)PXEPFTTe News HOMEROOM JOTFBTPOPQFOFS US ReporterIBOEMF%8* r#VMMEPHTXBMMPQ1BDL BSSSFTUT ui8IPXBT r5SPKBOTSBMMZQBTU7JLFT 3FVCFO#SPXO u LISTS IN r-BEZ(BUPSTUBLFXJO 4FFBOTXFSTPOQBHF Inside Sports Ask PWFS4$)4 " TODAY’S ISSUE 4FFQBHF# ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Monday, August 22, 2011 Husband kills wife, wounds her boyfriend at hospital nFriday shooting was in visitors’ park- Joan Jones had her car in gear, His car was struck in the driv- Volume 121, Number 15 ing area on east side of hospital. and Shipman was standing at the er’s door area by at least three Whiteville, North Carolina driver’s door when Elijah Jones bullets. Joan Jones, with her car By BOB HIGH appeared behind his wife’s car in gear, had her foot on the brake Staff Writer with a .44 pistol and opened fire pedal. When she was shot her foot 50 Cents from about 25 feet. Police were dropped off the brakes, and her Elijah Jones, a 66-year-old Chadbourn man, was notified at 7:08 a.m. car moved slowly north until it angry that his estranged wife had an apparent rela- Bullet to head was stopped by the guy wire of Inside Today tionship with Bobby Ray Shipman, 47, of Whiteville. One bullet went through the a utility pole at the edge of the 3-A Friday morning, Jones saw his wife, Joan Everett driver’s side rear passenger win- parking area. Jones, 51, driving her 1993 Honda Accord on U.S. 701 Elijah Jones dow and struck Joan Jones in the Joan Jones Joan Jones was removed from r)BMMTCPSPIBT Bypass here, with Shipman as a passenger. Elijah left rear of her head. At least two the car, and hospital workers per- BDSFDPSONB[F Jones followed them to the hospital’s visitors’ park- other shots struck Shipman in his legs. It’s not clear formed CPR, but she died from the gunshot to the ing lot where his wife took Shipman to get his car how far he had to move to get to his car, but Shipman head. Shipman was treated in the emergency room 4-A that had “broken down” and had been left there, ac- drove to the west side of the hospital to the ER as on the west side of the hospital. r/PUIJOHQBJEGPS cording to Police Detective Sgt. Ted Dixon. he attempted to flee. See Murder, page 4-A 'SPHTNJMMJPO CPOE Byrd arrested DIDYOB? Funding Did you observe ... for harassing Recent Land-O- beach woman is obstacle Lakes youth golf Giles Edwin “Buddy” Byrd Jr., chairman of the Colum- tournament winner bus County Board of Com- for animal Wesley Bryant of missioners, was arrested Nakina appear- Friday, Aug. control ing on national 19, in North M y r t l e By NICOLE CARTRETTE TV Tursday as Beach, S.C., Staff Writer a spectator at the on a war- rant charg- In what could be described as the calm after PGA’s Wyndam ing him with the storm, a second meeting of the Columbus harassment County Animal Control board recently was Championship at small and relatively quiet. of a woman Buddy Byrd Greensboro? ... Lillie he had in- While the Animal Control Board had an- Royal at Meredith tended to marry, according to nounced that no public input would be allowed, various reports. attendees did give input and offer suggestions College realizing Byrd went to the beach to be for improvements at the county’s animal con- that the English served with the misdemeanor trol shelter. warrant, and posted a personal Jane Tzilvelis of Durham asked the ad- class she was sitting recognizance bond of $15,000. visory board to consider the creation of a in was actually a He was arrested shortly before special account for shelter vet care, medicine 3 p.m., and posted the bond and other needs. Chinese language at the Horry County J. Reu- Tzilvelis said that Wake County had such an class? She made it ben Long Detention Center at account that allows and accepts money collect- about 4:40 p.m. ed from fundraising efforts of various groups. to her English class One thing that has troubled animal rights just in time. ... Te See Byrd, page 4-A See Funding, page 3-A National Weather Service reporting County that Hurricane County board Irene will hit the schools East Coast between Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist prepares for North Carolina and to open Reuben ‘white’ house redistricting Florida sometime Gary Winters applies a coat of white paint to the Reuben Brown House Tursday in Whiteville recently. The historical structure was moved to the site sev- By NICOLE CARTRETTE Friday or Saturday? Staff Writer By FULLER ROYAL eral years ago and is used as a museum and venue for period events. Southeastern North Staff Writer By December, Columbus County’s commis- Carolina is on the sioner districts may not look much like they The Columbus County State’s jobless rate up to 10.1 percent do today. upper section of the Schools will open for business That is what an attorney, Adam Mitchell, computer model? ... Thursday morning as thou- By RAY WYCHE ployment benefits. with the Raleigh firm Tharrington & Smith, sands of parents and hundreds Staff Writer A total of 300 state government told commissioners recently. of buses take to the roads car- workers were also put out of work, “It is unlikely, in my opinion, that any of rying about 6,500 students. North Carolina’s unemployment while private sector businesses your districts will look like they do today,” Superintendent Alan Faulk, rate jumped to 10.1 percent in July, gained 6,900 jobs in July. Mitchell told the board as he detailed the pro- County Deaths overseeing his first school-year after nine months of jobless rates of Cuts in appropriations for state cess of redistricting following the 2010 census opening in that position, said less than 10 percent. and local governments under the cur- and discussed redistricting principles. Whiteville the biggest change for return- Leading the number of people rent budget passed by the Republican- While the legislature must follow stricter Francis Hugh Williams ing students this year is the seeking work last month were former controlled General Assembly are population accounting methods, the county’s Fair Bluf new uniform policy. state and local government employ- blamed for the lay-offs. districts may have greater deviations than Similar, but not as detailed ees, including school teachers and “Job growth in North Carolina’s congressional districts. Clarence H. Cannady as the Whiteville City School’s assistants. private sector was offset by declines “It does not mean each district needs to Tabor City two-year-old version, it marks According to Employment Secu- in both state and local government be exactly the same population,” Mitchell Donald Dwight Spivey the beginning of a learning rity Commission (ESC) figures, 11,800 employment,” according to ESC explained. He pointed out that a 10 percent Mario Deran Lewis Jr. curve county principals will former local government workers Chairman Lynn R. Holmes, deviation is acceptable with commissioner were laid off and applied for unem- See State, page 3-A Timmy Dewayne Lovette See County, page 2-A See Redistricting, page 2-A Chadbourn Joan Everette Sutton is city schools teacher of the year Index By FULLER ROYAL first grade teacher. “For me personally, teaching has Staff Writer “I also had the wonderful opportunity rewards like no other profession,” she &EJUPSJBMT" to teach both of her grandsons, one of said. “I feel that teaching a child to read 0CJUVBSJFT" Fifteen-year teaching veteran Pam Sut- whom the interview committee had just and to learn to employ critical thinking 4QPSUT# ton is the Whiteville City Schools’ 2011-12 met while observing me in my room. skills empowers them to handle whatever $SJNF" Teacher of the Year. Sutton had taught first grade since the future holds for them. The ability to -JGFTUZMFT" The Whiteville Primary School first 1999. For four years prior, she taught read is something I can give a student grade teacher was recognized during fourth grade. that can’t be broken, taken away or ever the school’s annual back to school break- “I feel like I’m giving back just a por- go out of style.” fast Friday morning at Whiteville High tion of what the wonderful teachers in the Sutton said she became a teacher to School. Whiteville City Schools system gave me “impact the lives of children. I continue “I was asked during my interview how and feel honored to represent the teachers to teach because of the impact the lives deep my ties ran in this community,” Sut- who taught me, the teachers who I once of children has on me.” ton said. “My response was that I was a called classmates and all teachers who “My mother and the strong educators product of the Whiteville City Schools work hard every day in the Whiteville that taught me throughout my years as a system. Mr. Larry Hewett, who had been City Schools to do what is best for chil- student inspired me to teach,” she said. my principal at WPS when I was a kinder- dren,” she said. “My mentors have changed over the years gartener, hired me as a teacher to replace Sutton was previously selected as from my teachers to my college professors Mrs. Margaret Elkins, who had been my Primary’s Teacher of the Year in 2000-01. See Sutton, page 2-A Pam Sutton 2-A – The News Reporter, Monday, August 22, 2011 This week, on..