r$PVOUZTMJQTQBTU8IJUFWJMMF 0QUJNJTUGPS%JYJF:PVUI %JTUSJDU.BKPSTDIBNQJPOTIJQ r1PTUGBMMTUP-BOFZJOêOBM HBNFPGSFHVMBSTFBTPO Sports 4FFQBHF# ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Monday, July 9, 2012 Ed Gillim Second takes over as Volume 122, Number 3 Whiteville, North Carolina police chief primary 75 Cents By JEFFERSON WEAVER Staff Writer is July 17 By NICOLE CARTRETTE The last member of the Staff Writer Inside Today Bolton Police Department is 4-A now the man in charge. Voters in Columbus County and across the r8PNBOJNQFSTPOBUFT Ed Gillim was sworn in as state will determine July 17 the outcome of five chief June 29. The Ivanhoe primary elections that were undecided in May. BUUPSOFZJOEPHOBQQJOH resident has been the town’s Close votes in a number of races means that r7FIJDMFT UJSFT only officer for months—but eight Republicans and two Democrats have a TUPMFOJO'BJS#MVĒ he said that will change in the second shot at making it on the November bal- near future. lot via a second primary. Using a $154,000 federal Early One-stop voting is under way at the grant that also pays his sal- Board of Elections office in Whiteville daily ary, Gillim said the town will from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. through July 13 and contract with off-duty sheriff’s from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday July 14. deputies to fill out the patrol All but one race involve Republican can- shifts in the town. Four depu- ties will work rotating patrols See Primary, page 3-A in their county cars. The depu- ties will also have extra time in the field to serve civil and criminal papers filed through the county. Spay and neuter “It’s good for both the town and the county,” Gillim said. mandatory to adopt Today’s “It gives the deputies another American Profle fea- chance to serve warrants, and from animal shelter tures “Te Strength it helps protect the people of our town.” By NICOLE CARTRETTE of ‘Hercules.’ Actor The deputies will be paid Staff Writer Kevin Sorbo played their standard hourly rate, Gillim said, but the town will Individuals who adopt pets from the Co- the mythic musclem- save on benefits, insurance and lumbus County animal shelter will pay more an on TV but faced vehicles. He said he hopes to in adoption fees beginning Aug. 6. his mightiest battle add a full-time Bolton officer in Columbus County commissioners unani- the near future, and is seeking Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist mously approved a proposal this week that in real life.” calls for individuals to participate in a man- See Chief, page 2-A Tournament opening datory spay neuter program in addition to a DIDYOB? The Dixie Youth Baseball Whiteville Optimist team salutes the fag during rabies vaccine that is already required. opening ceremonies of the AAA tournament at Old Dock Friday evening. In addition to standard adoption fees of Did you observe ... $25 per dog or cat, individuals will pay for a spay or neuter certificate priced according to Proud grandpa Clint Skating the size and sex of the animal being adopted. Grainger walking A male cat will cost adoptees $55 and is the rink faces Lewis is newspaper’s least expensive. A female dog weighing more down the aisle of First than 50 pounds will cost an adoptee $125 and Baptist Church in fnal steps Whiteville showing advertising manager See Spay, page 9-A By JEFFERSON WEAVER By FULLER ROYAL of his frst grandbaby Staff Writer during Sunday ser- Staff Writer The Whiteville City Council Dean Lewis, who has been the as- Five county schools vices? ... Rock ‘n Roll is scheduled Tuesday to take sistant advertising manager at The and Country Music the last step toward tearing News Reporter for more than 20 years, down a former town landmark. have new principals Legend Billy Joe Royal was named in June by publisher The board will vote to ac- By FULLER ROYAL James C. High as the new manager of having his car re- cept or decline a finding of Staff Writer the department, following the unex- fact regarding the old White- paired at Jamie’s Tire pected death of Mickey Greer in May. ville skating rink, located on Last week, the Columbus County Board of and Auto? ... Lewis, the son of Marie and Har- Caldis Street. Closed for years, Education assigned new principals to five of old Hughes of Whiteville, joined the the building has become di- its schools. newspaper’s ad department in 1986 lapidated and is considered a At East Columbus High School, the new when Greer was named manager. nuisance and a health hazard. principal is Bobby Vaughan, who has been Greer succeeded the late Carlton County Deaths The owner of the property, the assistant principal there, replacing the Stanley. Alice G. Taylor, told the council retiring Mark Bridgers. Whiteville Lewis said he would continue to June 19 in an appeals hearing Tabor City Middle School Principal Kent maintain the high standards for the Betty Marrimon that she had never received Lovett has been reassigned as principal at newspaper’s ad department set by Tabor City notification of the potential Cerro Gordo Elementary School, replacing Greer. Cordell Harper condemnation. the retiring William Wright. “He was a good friend,” Lewis She also said that the letters Lovett’s position at Tabor City Middle is Clyde Edward Livingston said of his colleague. “He was also a and requests sent by the city being filled by Dianna Bellamy, who has been a Letha McMillian Lewis good man.” since July 2007 had apparently Dean Lewis K-6 teacher at the elementary school and a par- Lewis said he is proud to be associ- Clarendon gone to her street address, ticipant in the Sandhills Leadership Academy. ated with The News Reporter. people to promote their business. Michael Wayne Simmons where she gets no mail. West Columbus High School assistant prin- “I am proud of our 100-plus year There’s information in The News Cerro Gordo The board ruled against giv- cipal Stephanie Packer is the new principal at history,” he said. “We have a unique Reporter and people use that infor- Evergreen Elementary School, replacing the Elizabeth T. Strickland ing Taylor additional time to product. There is no better way for See Lewis, page 2-A retiring Emmett Lay. Bolton See Rink, page 2-A Lois Maywon Ellison See Principals, page 2-A Hallsboro Harry Powell Jr. Chadbourn Flora Mae Skipper Cross Nobles served with artillery unit near DMZ nHis unit was part of 1st Air Cav’s who was drafted in the Army as a resident 19th Infantry Regiment. of the China Grove community in Columbus Index County, and now lives in Shallotte, declared. By BOB HIGH DMZ time &EJUPSJBMT" Staff Writer Nobles said he spent most of his Vietnam 0CJUVBSJFT" time near the Demilitarized Zone on the border Richard Albert Nobles, 65, is a changed man of North and South Vietnam, plus saw some ac- 4QPSUT# tion in the A Shau Valley. His artillery battery $SJNF" from the time he served in South Vietnam with a battery of 105mm cannon attached to the 1st was in B Company, 2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry. -JGFTUZMFT" Air Cav, the first unit to utilize helicopters to N o b l e s h a d move troops en masse to make assaults on an been in Vietnam enemy group. t h r e e m o n t h s “In effect, the cavalry traded tanks and when he came horses for helicopters,” he stated. Nobles said across Johnny the 105mm artillery pieces, capable of firing M a l p a s s f r o m seven miles, were moved by Chinook helicop- Delco at Landing ters using a sling under the chopper. Zone Sharon near Quang Tri and the Laotian “It usually took 30 minutes to get one gun border. hooked into the sling, unless we were lucky “The reason I remember it was LZ Sharon so good is that’s where my best friend got and could do it quicker. The downdraft on the Richard Nobles, right, and a buddy in Vietnam. helicopter’s blades made it difficult,” Nobles, See Nobles, page 2-A 2-A – The News Reporter, Monday, July 9, 2012 This week, on... Nobles Continued from page 1-A killed. It was a guy named Faircloth from Georgia. I don’t ‘The war I fought at home remember his first name. He was worst than the one I was killed in a mortar attack, and he’s the only one from my fought in Vietnam.’ Nobles July 9, 2012 unit who was killed during my said he stayed drunk and tour,” Nobles pointed out. ‘drugged up’ for 20 years Whiteville.com Poker game upon his return to civilian Biser Ball Several of Nobles’ friends life. Sports Trivia in his unit were wounded by shrapnel. An example: “Six Richard Nobles Question #147: The of us were playing poker in U.S. Army Whiteville Post 137 base- a bunker, and a mortar at- ball team won the 1996 tack started. Two of the guys jail, because I’d have hurt him North Carolina American jumped out of the bunker and bad. It’s a good thing they kept Legion championship. for some unknown reason just them back from us. What team did Post 137 squatted outside. A mortar “I never said much about defeat in the state cham- round fell within six feet of being in Vietnam during the pionship series? them, and one of the guys lost early years I was home.