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The proposed ESEA Title I
project for the 1971-72 school
year was presented to the
county Board of Education
during its regular meeting
last Monday.
Mrs. Frances Stone,
director of the program, told
board members that the
project would be the same as
last year’s and would include
the following areas of in
structional services: reading,
supportive services and
health, library, audio-visual
and teacher aides. Salaries of
the reading coordinator and
library supervisor will be
based on the state schedule.
A project evaluator will be
added to the program, Mrs.
Stone reported. She also
reviewed the summer
program now underway in
Brunswick County schools.
Teacher resignations were
accepted from the following:
at Brunswick County
Southport, Glenda Scott,
Janet Shew, James S. Shew,
Franklin Barbee, Patricia
Foy and Lean ah White.
Supplement for coaches at
Brunswick County-Southport
high school was the reason
for a group of parents to meet
with the board. Mr. Davis
acted as spokesman for the
group that represented the
Organization for Better
Education, and was told by
the board that the matter was
Kiver Llaims
Youth’s Life
A drowning in the Wac
camaw River Thursday
afternoon claimed the life of a
15-year old Brunswick County
youth who was swimming
with a companion.
Bennie Ray FormyDuval of
iRt. 1 Ash drowned about 4:30
{pm. just off NC 130 while
'Swimming with Richard
Faulk, 16, also of Rt. 1 Ash.
The youth’s body was
recovered about 6:45 pm. by
diver Ernest Best of Rt. 1
Whiteville.
The mishap occurred in the
river which separates
Brunswick and Columbus
counties. Because the youth
ottered from the Columbus
County side the case was
turned over to Columbus
authorities. Coroner Buell
Lanier ruled that the death
was due to accidental
drowning.
The Whiteville and
Shallotte rescue squads
participated in the search for
the FormyDuval youth along
with sheriff’s deputies from
both counties. The body was
removed from die Columbus
County side of the river.
According to reports at the
scene, the boy had returned
home about three o’clock
■ Thursday afternoon from a
trip to the mountains.
one for the local school
committee and the principal
to consider.
The board approved the
following teachers for the
next school year: BC^SH—
Ann Sinclair, Susan Greene
and Phyllis Barbour; South
port Elementary — Sandra
Bohart, Sandra Latcher and
Sally Ward.
The board decided to
support a $200 million bond
issue that would benefit all
school units in the state. The
matter is now in the General
Assembly, where a decision
is expected to allow the
matter to be put to the people.
Supt. Ralph King reported
on the status of consolidated
school construction in the
county. Every phase was on
schedule, he stated.
Heritage House
Asks For Items
A principal feature of the
Southport Fourth of July
celebration will be the
Heritage House sponsored by
the Southport Woman’s Club.
Mrs. Bobby Jones is
president of the club and Mrs.
James M. Harper, Jr., is
serving as general chairman.
Articles for exhibit are
welcomed not only from club
members but from anyone
who has interesting or
historical items. These are to
be taken to the Community
Building between 8 and 12
o’clock on Saturday, July 3.
The show will be open to the
public that day from 1 until 6.
On Sunday, July 4, the show
will be open from 1 until 6
o’clock. On the Sth of July, the
day of the parade, the show
will open at 9 in the morning
and continue until 6 in the
afternoon except that it will
be closed while the parade is
in progress.
Getting Ready To Move
Tomorrow (Thursday) is the day! The day for moving the old Waccamav
Bank and Trust building accross the street to its new location, that is. Her*
Contractor Carlton Barbour, right, is watching his big man, Willie, yield the
sledge hammer as he pries the building from its foundation. (Photo b'
Appreciation Dinner Held
For First Negro Official
On Saturday night, June 6,
members of the Voters
League of Southport said an
official “thank you” to the
registered voters for their
support to recently elected
Alderman James Harold
Davis. Mrs. Mattie L.
Hewett, president of the
Voters League, along with
her committee and with the
help of the wife and mother of
the honoree, prepared die
buffet consisting of turkey
with all the trimmings. Hie
occasion was termed ap
preciation dinner.
The master of ceremonies
was Eugene Gore, who led a
short devotion. Following the
devotion a welcome was
extended by Miss Regina
Operations Complex
Site Cleared For Bank
A mammoth central
operations building and
computer center is to be
constructed in Whiteville
adjacent to the Executive
Offices and Headquarters for
the Waccamaw Bank & Trust
Company.
The new one-story building
will contain 22,000 square feet
of floor space and will in
corporate all of the data
processing, bookkeeping,
printing, mailing, and
warehousing operations for
the complex bank system.
Designed by the Leslie N.
Boney architectural firm in
Wilmington, the building will
utilize economical methods of
construction. Modular steel
framing with large spans will
provide maximum ex
pansion possibilities without
having to use structural
partitions and excessive
columns.
Exterior materials have
been selected for their per
manence and to provide a
building of quiet simplicty
and dignity that will be a
background for the large
sculptural quality of the
white stone headquarters
building on the adjacent site.
The materials are light tan
brick with bronze anodized
Youth Center At Oak Island
This is the Oak Island Youth Center building, now nearing completion. It
sponsored by Ocean View Methodist Church of which Rev. Whit Warren
pastor and has been built with volunteer labor, mostly from the youths.
Contributions of paint, chairs, tables and other furniture and equipment still
are needed. (Photo by Spencer)
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aluminum windows and doors
with a small precast stone
coping. Doors and windows
have been placed
strategically by the designer
lor controlled entrance to the
building. Other entrances
have been introduced in the
simple masonry walls for fire
exit only.
Indications of the struc
tural steel module appear at
twenty-foot intervals as a
change in the brick pattern.
banking seminars. Lounge
facilities with vended food
services are adjacent.
Noise is often a major
factor in this sort of operation
but where noise-producing
equipment is located, such as
the large bookkeeping and
proof-machines area, car
peting and other noise
reducing means will be used.
The Computer Room with
(OmtfeuMd Ob mp Ml)
White, secretary of the
Voters League. Gore then
proceeded to introduce one of
the guests of the evening,
Representative Thomas
Harrelson, young business
man of Southport.
Representative Harrelson
introduced the speaker of the
evening. Representative Joy
J. Johnson of Robeson
County. Johnson is also a
recently elected represen
tative, a minister in Fair
mont, who received his A.B.
degree from Shaw University
of Raleigh, and his D.D.
degree from Friendship
University. He was voted
“Man of the Year” in Fair
mont for 1970 and 1970 am
bassador of Good Will in
Robeson County.
Representative Johnson
challenged our people to stop
building walls that hinder
success and to build bridges
to help cross over into a
better day. He spoke of
barriers that frequently block
the way when people could
realize a more profitable life
in their community and city'
Representative Johnson
said Davis is the first black
man to be elected to office in
the City of Southport because
many of the citizens believed
it was time for them to
deviate from the path they
had been pursuing. The
speaker was interrupted on
several occasion as the
audience indicated their
approval of his remarks by
their outbreak of applause.
The response to the address
was made by Mrs. Elizabeth
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Time And Tide
Thirty-live years ago this week lights were being installed or
the tennis courts at Southport. That information came from a
front page story in The Pilot for June 17. Two Southport youths,
Tommy Thompson and Harris Sentelle, had sailed from South
port to Wrightsville Beach the hard way—outside.
Charlie Dosher of Southport had been the first World War 1
veteran in Brunswick to receive his bonus bonds; on the society
page there was an account of the wedding of Miss Virginia
Dodson to Colon Mintz; and in the advertising section there was
a description of a kerosen - burning refrigerator, a real'luxury
for people who lived where there was no electric current
available. This was the year 1936.
On the front page of The Pilot for June 18,1951, there was a
photo of the graduating class from the School of Nursing at
James Walker Memorial Hospital. Two girls from Brunswick
County were included: Ada Marie Bennett of Shallotte and
Lucille Alberta King of Freeland. Capt. W.H. Barnett and 10
men of the crew of Oak Island Coast Guard Station had been
transferred, leaving A.E. Huntley in charge of the local unit.
A party fishing with Capt. Victor Lance aboard the Moja had
brought in the first sailfish of the season; the Southport
Volunteer Fire Department had run into a perplexing problem
when called to put out a fire in a privy; and J.J. Hawes had a
special on “E.V. Stock & Cattle Power” at his store in Supply;
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Public Hearing Thursday
Incorporation Of Leland
Question Put To Voters
A public hearing has beei
called on legislation in
troduced by Rep. Thoma
Harrelson that would gran
the people of the Lelan<
community the right to voti
on the question of in
corporating the Town o
Leland in Brunswick County
The public hearing will b<
held by the Senate Committei
on Local Government oi
Thursday at 4 p.m. in the
State Legislative Building
According to Rep. Harrelson
he introduced this bill at the
request of numerous citizens
of the Leland area. As it was
originally writen, the
| proposed area of in
i corporation included both th<
Leland x and Elah com
munitieg.
However, according to
Harrelson, there was some
opposition from members of
the Elah community who felt
' that if the election produced a
S favorable vote and the town
of Leland was in fact in
r corporated, the residents of
the Elah section would not
receive the same services as
the residents living around
the Leland school proper.
Out of respect for the
wishes of the Elah residents,
• Rep. Harrelson said he had
the bill amended so that the
only people affected by the
proposed election would be
those people in the Leland
community.
The bill was introduced on
April 8 and since then has
moved rather slowly because
of some opposition to the
measure, Harrelson said. He
added that the bill was
delayed for three weeks in
order to allow people
representing both sides of the
question the time to prepare
for a public hearing which
was held on May 6 before the
House Committee on Local
Government.
i After questions regarding
- the proposed evaluation of
i the area were resolved, the
t bill was passed from the
i committee to the House floor,
! and was passed by the House
■ on May 14.
r The opponents of the
measure requested another
■ public hearing before the
i Senate Committee on Local
i Government and this was
granted at the request of
Senator S. Bunn Frink, who
also represents Brunswick in
the General Assembly.
Harrelson said that as a
result of the many delays, the
election date, as originally
proposed, will have to be
changed in order to give the
people of Leland the time to
consider the advantages or
disadvantages of the in
corporation. He has made
arrangements with the
League of Municipalities to
hold a public hearing in the
Leland area if the bill passes.
Harrelson said that the
League of Municipalities is a
on-partisan state-wide group
representing all the
municipalities of North
Carolina, and that the League
simply presents a factual
program but takes no stand
on whether any particular
area should or should not be
incorporated.
Cutter Mendota
July 4 Highlight
The Coast Guard cutter will
be at Southport the weekend
of July 3-5 as part of the
Fourth of July Festival.
Everyone is invited to visit
the ship during its stay in
Southport.
The Mendota was built in
1944 at the Coast Guard Yard,
Curtis Bay, Maryland, and
was commissioned on June 2,
1945. It is one of twelve cut
ters built by the Coast Guard
for convoy duty in the North
Atlantic during World War n,
but never saw actual duty as
she was converted for peace
time activities soon after she
was commissioned.
For the past 25 years, the
Mendota’s main duty has
been to stand ocean stations
along the East Coast. These
stations, in addition to the
rescue and assistance to
aircraft, include in taking of
oceanographic data,
Academy Holds
Annual Meeting
fort Johnston Academy,
Ltd., held it’s annual
membership meeting on
Monday night.
The Academy was founded
in 1970 as a co-educational
day school to provide quality
education for all children who
qualify academically. The
purpose of the school is to
equip each student with a
background to enable him to
receive further formal
training either in college or
technical schools depending
upon the desire of the in
dividual. In the first year, the
academy had an enrollment
of 77 students in grades 1 thru
9.
The academy functions
with a board of trustees of IS
members, elected by the
general membership, who
serve on rotating terms of 1,2
and 3 years with 5 new
members elected each year.
The new board members
elected at this year’s annual
meeting are Betty Cochran,
Sam Rees, Jr., and Trudy
Hufham. Thomas Bowmer
and Joe Young were re
elected.
The new slate of officers
elected to serve for the en
suing year are A.H. Gainey,
Jr., chairman; Betty
Cochran, vice-chairman;
Edythe Smith, secretary;
and Pauline Swain,
treasurer. Elected to serve on
the executive committee with
Chairman Gainey and Vice
Chairman Cochran are
Thomas Bowmer, Pauline
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providing hydrographic
observations, weather data to
the U.S. Weather Bureau and
the navigational aid to
military end civilian ships
and aircraft.
The Mendota is 255-feet
long with a beam of 43-feet
and a draft of about 18 feet.
She operates with a crew of
130 enlisted men and 13
officers and maintains a high
degree of military readiness.
Organize New
Crafts Coop
The Brunswick Crafts
Cooperative has been formed
in this county and the
organizational meeting was
held Friday night at
Longwood.
The cooperative was
organized under a grant for
$15,000 received from
SENCland Community Ac
tion. The idea behind the
movement was to assist the
low income residents of this
area to ecrn additional
money through training and
development of skills which
will enable them to produce
useful and attractive articles
in ceramics, sewing and
upholstering. Later it is
hoped to expand into other
crafts, including wood
carving and working with
seashells.
William Burney from
Royal Oak Community has
been a leader in this
movement and served as
acting chairman prior to the
Ixmgwood meeting Friday
night Zack Smith from Zion
Hill Community has been
serving as acting treasurer.
Ms. Jennette King of the Ash
Kingtown Community has
served as secretary. Other
members of the acting board
of directors were Willie
Marlow of Little Prong; Earl
Gore of Longwood; James
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Dinner Speaker
Representative Joy J. Johnson, standing, was speaker at Southport Voters
League Appreciation Night. Seated at the head table are Eugene Gore,
master of ceremonies; Alderman J. Harold Davis; Representative Thomas
Harrelson; and Mrs. Mattie Hewett, president of the Voters League.