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Brunswick County
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
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VOLUME 40
No. 31
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1969 5* COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Scores Of Firemen Battled The Blaze Sunday Night
Penalty Will
Be Made For"
Late Listing
By Ira D. Butler, Jr.
If you have not already listed
taxes for 1969 please do as soon
as possible so the long lines of
the last minute rush can be
avoided. The listing period is
from January 2-31 and it
appears a smaller percentage of
Brunswick county property
owners have listed than in past
years at this time.
We wish to bring to your
attention that failure to list
during the January listing period
subjects the property owner to
the late listing penalty “which
shall be ten per cent (10%) of
the tax levied for the current
year or one dollar ($1.00)
whichever is the greater”—
105-331c North Carolina
General Statutes. If you, as the
owner of property on which the
regular tax would be $100 did
not list until the tenth of
February would be subject to a
penalty of $10 which would be
added to the tax bill you receive
in the Call.
We have had people come
several months after the listing
period is over to list their
property which should have
been done during January. This
is hard on the property owner
who in many cases has had to
make a special trip to Southport,
and on the office people who
have to stop their normal
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MOTHERS MARCH
The Mothers March for Polio
will be held in Southport
Monday night between the hours
of 6:30 and 7:30 o’clock,
according to Mrs. Connie Young,
local chairman. She asks that
porch lights be left burning to
indicate that the residents are at
home.
READING HOUR
The Southport Sub-Junior
Womans Club will sponsor a
reading hour at the
Southport-Brunswick County
Library beginning Saturday
morning, February 1. Children
irom kindergarten to 5th grade
will be eligible. The class will be
limited to 20 children on a
first-come first-served basis.
Registration will be Saturday
morning, January 25, from 9:30
until 11:30. -
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Present Check To Hospital
L. T. Yaskell, chairman of the Board of Trustees for Dosher Memorial Hospital,
is shown receiving a check for $425 from Mrs. Connie Young, past president of the
Southport Junior Woman’s Club. This represents the net proceeds from the Annual
Christmas Ball. On the left is Mrs. Teressa Conrad, new president of the club. (Photo
by Spencer)
Hear Bond Vote Explained
Southport citizens attended a
public hearing Thursday night in
the Brunswick county
courthouse, called for the
purpose of explaining provisions
contained in a special bond
election set for Tuesday,
February 11, and calling for the
sale of bonds totaling $215,000.
Officials told those in
attendance that no increase in
the current tax rate nor in the
rate for electric current is
anticipated.
The largest item included in
the bond election will be for
$170,000 for use in improving
and expanding the electrical
distribution system. It is
anticipated that the elimination
of increasing maintenance costs,
plus improved efficiency of
operation, will result in savings
sufficient to meet the annual
payments for these bonds.
Although there was critical
questioning from the audience,
there appeared to be a general
favorable attitude toward this
provision.
The second item deals with
issuing $30,000 in bonds for
recreational 'scilities, with a
proposed city pier slated to be
allocated most of this money.
There was some discussion as to
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Savings And Loan
Reports Good Year
All officers of Security Savings
and Loan Association were
reelected at the annual meeting
of stockholders held here
Thursday. Nobody was elected
to fill the vacancy of director
and secretary-treasurer created
by the recent death of W. P.
Jorgensen.
Reelected were H. T. St.
George, president; D. C. Herring,
vice-president; Rachel Rook,
assistant secretary-treasurer;
Douglas Hawes, assistant
secretary-treasurer; H. Foster
Mintz, Earl Bellamy, Hobson
Kirby and S. Bunn Frink,
directors.
The report submitted by
President St. George reflected a
year of growth and service to the
people of the area served by the
two offices of the association, at
Southport and Shallotte.
The report made by President
St. George showed that the
assets of Security Savings and
Loan Association as of
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December 31, 1968 totaled
$6,363,881. This was an increase
of $378,316, a 6.32% increase
for the year.
Total savings were $5,704,844,
an increase of $173,932, or a
3.14% increase. The number of
investors totaled 2955.
Dividends paid and credited to
shareholders accounts totaled
$241,578. This plus dividends
accrued for Bonus Shares totaled
$244,647.
Mortgage loans showed an
increase of 8.56%. They totaled
$5,546,489 at the close of the
year, an increase of $437,353.
The Association made 195 loans
during the year. They totaled
$1,243,846. Forty-two were for
the purpose of construction, 45
were for the purchase of homes,
10 were for the refinancing
mortgages held by others and 98
were for other purposes. The
association had a total of 1204
mortgage loans on it’s books as
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Fire of undetermined origin
destroyed the Southport High
School building here Sunday
night There had been early
reports that arson was suspected
as the cause, but a State Fire
Marshal who inspected the
building ruins Monday declared
he could find nothing to
substantiate this theory. Official
investigation also failed to turn
up substantial evidence that the
fire had been deliberately set.
With only two rooms in the
building still fit for use, local
school officials have called off
classes for the remainder of this
week as they search for a
solution to the problem of what
to do about holding school for
the remainder of this year.
Mid-term exams started Friday.
Superintendent Fred Smith of
the N.C. Baptist Assembly is
attempting to work out an
arrangement which will permit
the use of one or more of t h e
buildings over there for grades 1
through 6. Superintendent
George Williams says this will
take care of about 350 of the
650 students affected by the
catastrophe.
Of the existing school
facilities, the home ec building
was undamaged, as were the two
temporary classrooms next door
and the two classrooms in the
Marineology Building. These,
together with the two
classrooms in use on the second
floor of the City Hall and the
two usable rooms in the high
school building, will give a
nucleus of space with which to
work out a solution to the
housing problem. Other
possibilities include use of some
of the classroom space at Trinity
Methodist Church and at
Southport Baptist Church. There
also is a possibility that one or
more classes may be taught in
the gymnasium and that two or
more classes might be able to use
the Community Building.
Williams said this morning that
he hopes that arrangements can
be made to get the children back
in school Monday morning.
Jerry Jones turned in the
alarm about 6:45 o’clock
Sunday afternoon that brought
action from the Southport
Volunteer Fire Department, the
Fire Department at Sunny Point,
the Volunteer Fire Department
at Long Beach and the
Volunteer Fire Department at
Holden Beach. The Town Creek
Rescue Squad was on hand with
their ambulance to help with
any emergencies that might
develop.
a ngnc rain tnat still was
falling after a day of rain helped
make it posable to confine the
blaze to the four walls of the
building. A stiff northeast breeze
was blowing, but spark were
killed before they could pose a
threat to nearby farm buildings.
It appeared that the blaze
started on the second floor of
the main building, somewhere in
the area of the teachers lounge.
Apparently it had been burning
for some time before firemen
appeared upon the scene, and
once the heat caught the tar
roof, water which poured from a
half-dozen fire hoses had little
effect. Chief fire da mag? was
confined to the second floor of
the old part of the main
building, but by the time
thousands of gallons of sooty
water had seeped down to the
first floor, damage there was
almost complete.
In addition to the two first
floor rooms in the new wing, the
auditorium escaped fire damage,
there was little fire damage to
the library or to the cafeteria.
All of the exterior walls were
left standing, and this helped
firemen to prevent the spread to
other buildings.
Although the office was the
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Charred Walls In Upstairs Hall Fallen Bell
Bank Announces Promotions T
Changes in personnel responsibilities in the Southport Office of the Waccamaw
Bank & Trust Company were announced this week by Lester V. Lowe, vice-president
m charge. Included was the promotion of Robert D. Howard, left, from assistant
c?shier. Also the naming of Mrs. Edythe P. Smith, center, and Mrs. Judy
Y. White, right, as assistant cashier. Howard has been employed by the bank for the
past ty^o years and Mrs. Smith and Mrs. White are veteran employees of the local of
Port Improvement Needed
Deep water resources at
Southport and adjacent lands
have been recommended for
study and development with the
aim of improving these resources
for greater contributions to state
and local economy.
Further, it is recommended
that inland streams including
Shallotte river be improved to
facilitate traffic on the Inland
Waterway as well as
ingress-egress routes to the
ocean.
The collective idea behind the
recommendations is to interest
both shippers and industry to
make greater use of state
Time And Tide
It was January 18,1939, and the Southport Civitan Club had been
organized on the preceeding Friday. The 18 charter members had
met, then and elected the club officers. Two unusual fish reported in
the catch of the “Maude and Mable” the preceeding week had been
identified. One of the phenomena named “Donald Duck” the week
before because of unusual facial characteristics, had been
re-christened a California Perch.
Sen. Bunn Frink had presented a bill to the State Legislature
calling for a nautical school of higher learning and the text of that
bill was given in that week’s issue of The Pilot. In other legislative
action, the U.S. Congress had allotted funds for the construction of
a yacht basin at Southport The R. I. Mintz and W. L. Aldridge
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resources including both land
and water routes for a more
comprehensive development of
the state.
These are findings of a
four-month study made by
Commonwealth Transportation
Consultants of Washington, D.C.
at the request of the State Board
of Water and Air Resources, the
director of which is George
Pickett.
Instead of continuously
proposing deeper-and
deeper-draft channels upstream
in the Cape Fear and Northeast
Cape Fear rivers, the study said,
“a serious effort should be made
to encourage industry to develop
Southport and the undeveloped
lands along the river downstream
from Wilmington.”
Federal provision of extensive
additional deepwater frontage
above and near Wilmington, the
report continued, does not
appear to be warranted at this
time.
As for inlets, the report said
greatest interest on inlet
development is justified for the
120-mile coastline between Cape
Fear and Beaufort where a
preponderance of coastal people
live and use water resources.
But inlets west of Chpe Fear
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