THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, June 24, 1995 TAG: 9506240364
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
LENGTH: Medium: 66 lines
OREGON INLET
TEEN DROWNS: A teenage boy died Friday afternoon on the beach near this Outer Banks inlet, apparently the victim of a drowning, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.
The victim, whose name was unavailable Friday evening, was playing Frisbee in the surf with some other people when he disappeared beneath the water, Coast Guard Petty Officer Joan Belk of the Cape Hatteras office said.
``We got the call sometime between 3 and 4 p.m. When we got there, there were already rescue workers doing CPR on him,'' Belk said from her Buxton office. ``I'm not sure, yet, whether it was a drowning or a natural death. It appeared to be a drowning.''
The boy was playing on the beach on the north side of the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge at Oregon Inlet. The ocean was relatively calm Friday, with only a small shorebreak and no large waves.
RALEIGH
STATE MONEY ALLOCATED: More than $32 million in Community Development Block Grant funds will go to 53 communities across North Carolina to rebuild neighborhoods, renovate homes, fight crime, install water and sewer lines and expand job opportunities, Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. recently announced.
The latest round of such funds will be used to install 47 miles of water and sewer lines, rehabilitate 765 substandard homes, clear 100 vacant and occupied dilapidated houses, eliminate 102 outhouses and relocate families to standard housing.
WASHINGTON
JONES DECRIES DECISION ON F-18s: On Friday, U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones, Jr., R-N.C., denounced the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission's decision to move 10 Navy F-18 squadrons to Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach.
BRAC decided in 1993, and Congress passed into law, that the F-18s would be stationed at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station in North Carolina. But commission members announced Friday that they had reversed the decision.
While the BRAC reversal eliminates the growth the F-18s would have brought to eastern North Carolina, it won't lead to the loss of any existing facilities or personnel.
The BRAC recommendations will come before the U.S. House of Representatives for a final vote in the next several weeks.
ELIZABETH CITY
VISITORS GUIDE PUBLISHED: A new guide for visitors to northeastern North Carolina is being distributed by the Tourism Development branch of the Northeastern North Carolina Regional Economic Development Commission.
The department will oversee distribution of 200,000 copies of the guide.
Bunny Sanders, director of the tourist development branch, displayed the first copies of the new guide at a June 21 meeting of the full commission in Columbia.
The brochure was prepared by Beth Compton, of the tourist branch, and produced by the Littleton Design Group Inc., in New Bern, N.C. Cost of the publication was $100,000. The commission contributed $25,000 to the effort. The remaining $75,000 came from six Albemarle counties and from paid advertising.
The full-color 68-page publication covers all of northeastern North Carolina, from Lake Gaston on the Virginia border to Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks. The visitors guide lists telephone numbers, accommodations, maps and travel details of attractions in the Albemarle area and on the Dare and Currituck County Outer Banks. by CNB