8IBUBSFUIFSVMFTPO r8IJUFWJMMF0QUJNJTUCPXTUP8FTU3PCF FMFDUSPOJDDBMMTGPS TPOJO%:"""êOBMTr-BUFTVSHFMJѫT US IVOUJOH 8BTUPCBDDP 4PVUI$PMVNCVTUPTFDPOESPVOEXJO UIFDPVOUZTNBJODSPQ PWFS4UBOMFZJOTUBUF%:.BKPST5PVSOB CFGPSFUIF$JWJM8BS NFOUr4QJWFZSFTJHOTDPBDIJOHQPTJUJPO Sports Ask 4FFBOTXFSTPOQBHF" BU8FTU$PMVNCVT ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Monday, July 25, 2011 Planning in Volume 121, Number 7 Whiteville, North Carolina progress for 50 Cents county By NICOLE CARTRETTE Inside Today Staff Writer 2-A The first of seven public meetings on the r8PSLTIPQPO county’s development of a comprehensive land use plan was held Tuesday at Hallsboro DPVOUZTXBUFS Middle School. USPVCMFTUPOJHIU About 30 people attended the session, which r'PSFTUSZNVTFVN included discussion about how a land use plan is used, included an overview of the county’s SFOPWBUJPOTOFBSMZ existing land use, soil types, infrastructure DPNQMFUF and wetlands. 4-A “Planning has become more and more important in order to make proper decisions .BOBSSFTUFEGPS Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist BUUBDLPODIJMESFO Crystal Dawn Williamson, 27, died after her car overturned on N.C. 130 near Old Dock. Old Dock See Planning, page 2-A Fire and Nakina Rescue departments responded to the accident early Saturday evening. DIDYOB? AYP elusive for Did you observe ... Woman dies when ejected as auto fips nVictim owned hairstyling passing zone as belt, was ejected onto the highway city, county and An increase in the and dance businesses here. she headed to and died at the scene. Whiteville. Wil- Yvette Rawls, 44, of Midway number of twins born By BOB HIGH l i a m s o n h a d Drive, Whiteville – Williamson’s charter schools Staff Writer completed the mother – sustained serious inju- at Columbus Region- By FULLER ROYAL pass at a speed ries to her neck and pelvic area, Staff Writer al? Tree sets of twins Crystal Dawn Williamson, 27, estimated at 85 and was transferred from Colum- were born in a six-day owner of Extreme Cuts and Ex- mph when she bus Regional Healthcare to New With the bars raised for minimum profi- treme Dance firms in Whiteville, jerked her car Hanover Regional Medical Center, period recently... Cort ciency levels on the state’s reading and math was killed Saturday afternoon back to the right Dickerson said. It is believed she Williamson end-of-grade tests, only one school in the Duncan trying out for when she was ejected from her to avoid an on- was using a seat belt, the trooper county – Chadbourn Elementary – made Ad- overturning car at the intersection coming vehicle, and lost control. added. American Idol last equate Yearly Progress (AYP) with the federal of N.C. 130 and Hallsboro Road in The 2007 Toyota went off to the Three posts Tursday in Charles- government’s No Child Left Behind program, the Old Dock community. right and hit a large post with the The Toyota struck the first post part of the Elementary and Secondary Educa- ton? … Tabitha Highway Patrol Trooper George right front of her car, and contin- at 70 to 75 mph and pulled it from tion Act (ESEA). Dickerson said Williamson, re- ued sideways to hit two more of the the ground. The second post was Etheridge’s farewell Last week, school districts in North Caroli- turning from a trip to the beach, 8-inch-by-8-inch posts, overturning party at Vineland was passing a vehicle in a no- twice. Williamson, not using a seat See Woman dies, page 4-A See AYP, page 11-A Station Tursday night? She is going to the Charleston School Severe arm Advocates rally of Law. ... Te sign Fight over local on the Internet which cut causes for changes at reads, “Satan called – man’s death he wants his weather dog hits the web animal control back.” ... WHS student nBrandon Jenkins hurt nRescue groups take up sides Matthew Hester glad trying to get in burning for and against local family. By NICOLE CARTRETTE home. Staff Writer to be home afer six By JEFFERSON WEAVER There was obvious tension between nearly weeks at N.C. Gover- By BOB HIGH Staff Writer Staff Writer 100 animal rights advocates and members of nor’s School? ... People the Columbus County Animal Control Advi- A local family wants their dog back sory Board recently. on foats tossing water Brandon – but an animal rescue group with At the volunteer board’s first meeting in into the crowd along Dante Jen- members in England, Wisconsin, and years, dozens from across the state showed kins died elsewhere says the family doesn’t de- the parade route up to voice their concerns about the county’s T h u r s d ay serve the dog. animal control shelter. at the Watermelon e v e n i n g Teresa McPherson’s Australian The advisory board sat at a table at the from loss of shepherd Smokey disappeared in May. Smokey Festival in Fair Bluf front of the commissioner’s chambers and blood from After weeks of searching, McPherson sin resident and CCaC member Melissa the county’s microphone system was not used. Saturday? ... Collier a severe cut said she and her daughter found out the Impens, “there was no way I was going Near the beginning of the meeting a woman Savage spitting a wa- to his right dog had been turned over to Columbus to let that dog go back to her.” in the audience told the board’s chairperson arm he sus- County Animal Control and adopted by termelon seed 14 feet Jenkins When McPherson tried to retrieve Dr. John Stih, a local veterinarian, that she tained when a representative of Pennash Columbus her dog from CCaC, a firestorm de- and others could not hear him. at the festival? ... he broke out two windows try- County Animal Control (CCaC) rescue. veloped that has involved dueling Speak Up ing to get inside his burning The organization is not affiliated Facebook pages, police investigations, “Can you speak up?” she asked. mobile home along Otto Nance with Columbus County, and has no and verbal and written attacks on the “I’m going to talk as loud as I can but that’s County Deaths Road, Cerro Gordo. local members, but adopts dogs from Columbus County Animal Shelter, its going to be it,” Stih said, before asking that The 26-year-old Jenkins the shelter. employees and volunteers. comments be limited to four to five minutes. Whiteville was unconscious when he “All I want is for my little girl to have Shelter workers also say that be- That outraged some of the attendees that Crystal Dawn Williamson reached Columbus Regional her dog back,” McPherson said. “After cause of CCaC’s actions, fewer animals had driven many miles to attend the meeting. Healthcare here shortly after a four-minute conversation, she said Chadbourn are being adopted from the Columbus “This is a very passionate topic for me and 7 p.m., and died during emer- that I wasn’t good enough, and that my Gene Tomas McColskey County Shelter – which means more are I’d like to share a little word,” Jane Tzivelis of gency treatment, according to family isn’t good enough.” Kathy F. Boswell Caulder “After I talked to her,” said Wiscon- See Animals, page 3-A Evergreen See Severe cut, page 4-A See Smokey, page 3-A Ruby P. Moody Hallsboro Maggie R. McNair Call for rare tool turns up two at Forestry Museum By JEFFERSON WEAVER Similar tools are common, said Harry Warren Staff Writer of the Museum of Forestry. Index “Everyone has seen a hack,” he said, refer- When the state needed a once common but ring to the puller’s shorter and wider cousin. &EJUPSJBMT" now rare tool for a pending display, a local mu- Hacks were used to start the catface on the tree. 0CJUVBSJFT" seum was not only able to supply the tool – but “Not everyone has a straight puller hanging 4QPSUT# it still has a spare. around.” Straight pullers were once used to clean A new exhibit at the Museum of History in $SJNF" the cuts made in pine trees of dried rosin. The Raleigh was lacking a straight puller, and when -JGFTUZMFT" cuts, called catfaces, then could continue to Warren found out about the need, the Museum produce the golden pine tree sap that made the of Forestry was ready to help. naval stores industry such an important part “They contacted a number of museums with of North Carolina’s industrial history. excellent collections and ties to the naval stores The tool was a later development in the pine industry,” he said, “but they had no real luck. tree trade, as workers had to reach higher on We happened to have two.” longleaf pines and work harder to tap the blood Handles could be changed on the straight of the trees. Rosin was used to manufacture puller to allow workers to reach ever higher pitch, turpentine, and other products. as catfaces were placed farther up the tall tree The tools were once found in nearly every trunks. The Museum of Forestry, which is set to camp or pine plantation, but through the years Harry Warren of the N.C. Museum of Forestry with the the forged iron implements have disappeared. See Tool, page 2-A “puller” headed for display in Raleigh. 2-A – The News Reporter, Monday, July 25, 2011 This week, on... This week, on... Planning Continued from page 1-A about the use of resources able with it,” Holland said, and the investment of county pointing out there is no rush dollars in development and to meet the likely completion things of the future,” Dale Hol- later this year.