Sun-News from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina • 31

TV i October 31 1996 THURSDAY Section DOWdadmtriih) NYSE DIARY Inside Foreign TV invades India despite government obstacles Index Adwncw! 1201 Naw highs 117 107 S89 Nawlows 61 B4PS00 IMal haues: 126 jjv yu 0 60h By Milne Hunter and IMy Eddkigs THE SUN NEWS On that dav WGSE-TV 43 will change its call letters to WFXB-TV And that's not all that will be changing Tne station was awarded the Fox Broadcasting Company affiliation for the Florence-Myrtle Beach television market Wednesday and will begin airing Fox programming late in January near the Super Bowl which Fox will cany WGSE which signed on July 5 1984 and until this year aired family and religious programming has a construction permit to increase its power to 5 million watts and will move its transmitter to a site between Nichols and Mullins in Mar Before WSFX changed to Fox area cable systems provided programming via FoxNet a satellite-delivered service with all Fox shows and a mixture of old and nfw syndicated offerings WFXB will continue as an affiliate of The WB Network until: it changes to Fox in Januaiy Sunday morning rcjj- Pkatttu FOX pagiZD serve the market WEYB-TV 56 a low-power station serving Florence will no longer air Fox programming WSFX-TV 26 in Wilmington NC will continue as a Fox affiliate but will no longer serve Myrtle Beach as it has since it chromed affiliation from CBS in WTAT-TV 24 in Charleston serves the lower tip of the market and will have no change in status ion County (the current transmitter is off SC 90 in Nixonville) The new WFXB will transmit a city-grade signal to Florence Myrtle Bach and Lumberton NC the principal cities of the eight-county Florence-Myrtle Beach market (Darlington Dillon Florence Hoity Marion and Marlboro ties in South Carolina and Robeson and Scotland in North Carolina! Three Fox affiliates currently WnfiaMe along the coastiUUiitt Airport expansion -may lure carrier 1 Myrtle Beach International Airport has started work on a terminal expansion project that could lure another air car- rier to the Grand Strand The expansion will add about 10JXX) square feet to the 100000-square foot termi- nal and will include another ticket counter opening the way for a new air earner to be-Jgin service at the crowded air port which has been operating at capacity The baggage ''claim area will also be doubled Food lion bets on growth Company spruces up older stores adds new ones i THE SUN NEWS Four yean after a spate of bad publicity on national television Food Lion' appears to be rebounding with a new-construction roar along the Grand Strand The Salisbuty NC-based supermarket chain has built new stores expanded and remodeled existing ones and has preliminary plans to build more stores along the Grand Strand Food Lion now has 15 stores in Horry and Georgetown counties considerably more than any other supermarket chain Several of Food Lion's older stores have undergone expansion and remodeling or have moved into laiger quarters All of this growth comes just four yean after ABC-TVs Time television show broadcast accusations that Food Lion emp tion worked in unclean conditions Portions of that broadcast were taped by hidden camera at the Food Lion store in Northwood Plaza in Myrtle Beach The broadcast created a stir at first but Brenda Little manager of the Food Lion in the Center South shopping center in Myrtle Beach take us long to back on the any Food Lion customers say they think twice about the accusations broadcast in 1992 believe' the bad publicity could happen said Calabash NC retiree viigiiria from two to four han- -dling belts A new rental car "facility is also planned The expansion projects will -cost about $30 million The airport which recently opened a new customs and immigrations facility for inter national flights has 36 commercial flights per day Tdown from 43 per day during lhe summer Air Canada is the international commercial -air carrier Through September about £405000 passengers had used 'the airport a 25 percent crease over last year's total Terex Corp sees rise In net income Terex Corp parent company of Conway-based PPM Cranes reported third-quarter net income of 14 million a $92 million increase over the company's $78 million third-quarter loss of last year Terex crane division which includes PPM Cranes saw a significant increase in operating profit from 13 million a year ago to $54 million this year continue to build maixet position and momen- turn said Fil Filipov president of Terex Ocanes Terex acquired PPM Cranes in May 1995 Since then Filipov has gone on a cost-cutting binge trimming about 100 employees from the payroll The latest layoffs occured earlier this month the same day Terex was presented with 7a petition for a union election NotaMsT Cal 626-0296 or fax Farcus KaMi JncbaTht Sun Naws Stanley Brfatan acrapas amass mortar from a block wal at tfw Food Lion stars In tha Canter South shopping center In Myrtle Beach That Food Lion la one of several on the Strand under construction or being renovated Handling of hog issue nets forDHEC Vi By larnmy FtetweN KN1GHT-RIDDER Two pork companies say they dropped plans for meatpacking houses in South Carolina because things just didn't work out But the fact is state regulators asked detailed questions about how the corporations complied with pollution laws in other states And lust days ad quuy IBP Foods Inc said they interested in South Carolina If state regulators would ask these S' ns more often get a picture of the industries South Carolina recruits critics say At the same time companies wanting to sneak in with bad pollution records might think twice about trying to locate in the state environmentalists say in renewing the call for closer examination of industrial compliance records spend a lot of time recruiting indust ly and industry spends a lot of time scrutinizing Sen Phil Leventis D-Sumter said step missing is us scrutinizing them quite pleased DHEC took that position in this he added hope this is a precedent that says they need to do it for no sign that will happen But groups and environmentalists say it just makes sense been pushing DHEC for years to be more aggressive in screening discharge-permit requests Ptaanu PORK pagi2D icy charge new customers someone water consumption Instead the past-due charges covered the debt on water- and sewerline construction in the hood where the property was' they the authority go with what hammered out this is going to be a good public-interest Connell said Wednes- day Wednesday Myrtle Beach itself is veiy healthy and growing and like to grow with it But the chain also wants grow in the right way as updated fresh and new as Durrett said what all Highlights of the new or enlarged stores include refurbished entrances wider aisles and checkout lanes new landscaping delicatessens bakeries and z4-nour service Durrett declined to say how much money Food Lion has invested in expansion and new construction in this area really hard to release any Kingswood Estates subdivision Connell said earlier this year that ruling would save a lot of people from having to pay someone else's bill in the future and could mean reflinds for some of the customers Richardson said attorneys for both sides are working on the wording of the settlement before presenting it in court for a judge's signature A public hearing on the proposed settlement will be held in healthy and she 'said certainly have made a large capital invest- ment in Myrtle A new Food Lion is under construction in a shopping center on US 501 near HonyGeoigetown Technical College Site studies also are in the works to build more stores area supervisor Larry Nietnan said Wednesday did demographic studies and the area finitely Gross think a lot of it was a put-up Several Food Lion stores in Little River North Myrtle Beach and Myrtle Beach are located just a few miles from each other and are prospering from population spurts and new residential developments springing up along the Grand Food Lion spokeswoman Cecily Dunett said Myrtle Beach has been one of Food Lion's most profitable areas since 1979 when a former Food Town store at 62nd Avenue North was converted into the area's first Food Lion not unusual at all for us to reinvest in a community where we've done so Durrett said May by Circuit Court Judge David Maring expect the settlement to be finalized within the said Fred Richardson the authority's executive director Attorney Gene Connell filed the suit last year on behalf of a Conway couple Tim and Andrea Phillips had to pay a previous homeowner's $157 water mil in May 1995 in order to get the water turned on at their mobile home in the Water hill lawsuit settlement will he announced soon said Nieman seated tn an office at the Food Lion store at Tilghman Beach Plaza in North Myrtle Beach That stem exemplifies the newer modem look with its red brick construe- HmsuwUON pagt2D court before the judge gives final approval want to say anything that would jeopardize the agreement before it is Richardson said wouldn't be The authority had enforced the past-due rule since the early 19801 If a new resident refused to pay the previous water bills the authority wouldn't turn on water service Richardson said the authority's By Kill Man THE SUN NEWS Details from the settlement of a class-action lawsuit Grand Strand Water Sewer Authority lost earlier this year are expected to be released within the month The suit was filed over the policy of making new customers pay the past-due water bills of previous residents That policy was declared unconstitutional in ijnmftiffiqp IMsm Ofe HkSero OtelMtanuD dnSfMcfMtemm GtefiUftemB gjii ILfitdbfMdl if SB if icv sBrMmsnmrtfrd IfiDUs AfnTiTlH 'ilxn If VBBUt HUnoafflUR Ml- MfUMtuv a ii.