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Cub Seoul Banquet
Members of the Cub Scout Pack in Southport were honored Friday night at
their annual banquet and a list of awards appears elsewhere in The Pilot. Also in at
tendance were officials of the group, including Mrs. Mary Appling, Den 8; Mrs. Sarah
Shelby, Den 2; Mrs. Glona Stiller, Den 4; Den Chief Joe Wicks for Den 6; James Hin
son, Webelos; Mrs. Barbara Sellers, Den 6; Mrs. Mary Bell Wicks, Den 6. Not shown
Spender) ®cout^aster J°nes and Mrs. Shirley Shannon of Den 8. (Photo by
First CP&L Suit
Judge Overrules Demurrer
Attorneys for Carolina Power
and Light Company brought
condemnation proceedings on
January 29 against James E.
Johnson, Jr., and others for
834.098 acres which it proposes
to use as the site for the nuclear
power generating plant and in
Superior Court here Monday'
Judge Maurice Braswell
overruled a demurrer brought by
attorney C. D. Hogue, Jr.,
, .flittorpey for.the defendant.
Text of the demurrer follows:
“The defendants, James E.
Johnson, Jr., Addison Hewlett,
Jr., Trustee, and D. L. White and
wife, Mary E. White, through
their Attorneys, Hogue, Hill and
Rowe, do respectfully demur to
the petition filed herein for that
the petition does not state facts
sufficient to constitute a cause
of action for the following
reasons:
“1. The Petition does not state
facts sufficient to constitute a
cause of action for that it
appears on the face of the
Petition that petitioner is
preparing to construct, maintain,
and operate a nuclear fueled
steam electric generating plant
and the petitioner has failed to
allege that it is licensed by the
Atomic Energy Commission of
the United States of America or
has any authority to construct
and/or maintain and/or operate
such a generating plant, which
license and authority is a
condition precedent to the right
of petitioner to take respondents
property.
“2. That under the laws of the
United States of America it is
contrary to the public policy of
the United States of America
and the State of North Carolina
to construct and/or maintain
and/or operate a nuclear fueled
steam electric generating plant
without a license from the
Atomic Energy Commission
issued pursuant to 42 U.S.C.A.
2131, et seq., and that the
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NEWS
SEWING CONTEST
The Junior Womans Club of
Southport will hold its annual
Sewing Contest next Wednesday
in the Ccmmunity Building.
Entries are invited.
PARENT-TEACHERS TO MEET
The regular monthly meeting
of the Southport
Parent-Teachers organization
will be held tomorrow
(Thursday) night at 7:30 o’clock
in the Amu?u theatre.
LELANO GIRL SCOUTS
The Girl Scouts will present a
special program at the regular
Leland High School P.T.A.
meeting Monday night at 7:45
o’clock. All parents and patrons
are urged to attend.
Attends Camellia Show
C. D. Pickerrell, Southport camellia grower, is
shown here admiring entries in the Camellia Show in
Whiteville Sunday. The Southport man, a former White
ville resident, was an exhibitor. (Photo by Clemmons)
Local Hospital
Receives Check
Appropriations totaling
$2,067,166 are being distributed
to hospitals and child care
institutions in the Carolinas this
week by The Duke Endowment.
Dosher Memorial Hospital in
Southport shared in this
appropriation with a gift of
$1,440. The local hospital has
48 beds.
Included in the appropriation
is $1,123,149 to assist hospitals
in operating expenses, $316,027
to reimburse them for the cost
of participation in two national
information services, and
$627,990 to help in the care of
orphaned and half-orphaned
children. In North Carolina 129
hospitals are receiving $942,328
and 26 child care institutions,
$417,434. Fifty-nine hospitals in
South Carolina are being given
$496,838 and 17 child care
institutions, $210,556.
Announcement of the
appropriations was made
Monday by James R. Felts, Jr.,
executive director of the
Hospital and Child Care sections
of The Endowment Felts
explained that funds provided to
assist the hospitals in operating
expenses amount to $1 a day for
each day of charity care
reported in the fiscal year which
ended September 30,1968.
Beginning with 1966, The
Endowment has reimbursed
assisted hospitals for the cost of
participation in Hospital
Administrative Services of
Chicago, 111., (HAS), and
Professional Activity Study
(PAS) of the Commission on
Professional and Hospital
Activities of Ann Arbor,
Michigan, which compile and
distribute financial and
statistical information on a
current monthly basis, giving
hospitals data useful in their
search for ways to improve
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Cigarette Tax
Opposed By
Farm Bureau
“Cigarettes, almost without
exception, are more heavily
burdened with taxes than any
other commodity that enters the
home of the average American,”
said Don Shackleford, NC Farm
Bureau Field Representative last
night at the Brunswick County
Farm Bureau Board meeting at
Shallotte.
“Cigarettes taxes are more
than five times as much as
tobacco growers’ receipts for the
tobacco used in domestically
consumed cigarettes,” said
Shackleford.
“Tobacco is of great
importance in North Carolina.
First to the farmers which
regardless what you hear on
television or read in the
newspapers, tobacco is still the
l&ding cash crop with a value of
over $540,000,000. This
represents 42% of state’s total
farm income. We have
approximately 300,000 people
depending on the tobacco for
their income, said Shackleford.
“Cigarettes are already
receiving the 3% sales tax with
an income to the state of $5.4
million. Corporate income taxes
from cigarette manufacturers
and processors amount to about
$12.2 million. State franchise
taxes from cigarette
manufacturers and processors
are approximately $1.7 million.
Local poverty taxes from
cigarette manufacturers and
processors are nearly $8.4
million. State income taxes
collected on employees of
manufacturers and processors
are approximately $3.2 million,”
said Shackleford.
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Two More; Girls
Enter Pageant'
Two new entries have been
received this week in the Miss
Brunswick County Pageant
which will be held at Shallotte
High School on March 29 under
sponsorship of the Shallotte
Jaycees. Mrs. Shirley Ward again
will direct the pageant.
One of the new contestants is
Teresa Gail Jones, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Jones of
Ash. She is a 17-year old senior
at Waccamaw High School and
would like to attend East
Carolina University.
She is 5-6V4 and weighs
124-lbs. Her eyes are blue and
her hair is brown.
She is a member of the Beta
Club, was Chief Marshal last year
and has been a cheerleader for
two years and attended the
National Science Foundation
Institute last summer. She has
been named Most Intellectual
and Most Likely to succeed
among senior class superlatives.
A pretty school teacher at
Leland High School is the
second new contestant to enter
this week. She is Elizabeth Ann
Baxley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Rudolph L. Baxley, Jr., of St.
Pauls. She is a graduate of
Pembroke State College and has
a vocational certificate from
UNC-Greensboro. She wants to
obtain a master’s degree in
Interior Design She had taught
school for three years and
presently is teaching home
economics at Leland.
She is 5-feet tall and weighs
118-lbs, has brown hair and blue
eyes. Her hobbies are sewing,
knitting, art and swimming.
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Races
This is the airplane in which automobile race
driver Richard Brickhouse made an emergency land
ing on Moore Street in Southport early Saturday
morning. Miraculously, the only damage to the plane
was the crunched left wing and the only damage to
anything elese was a roadside signpost that was shear
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^ TERESA GAIL JONES
ELIZABETH ANN BAXLEY
JEAN IRIS WARD MYRA LYNNE HEWETT
PAGEANT CONTESTANTS
Letters Protest
Action Of Board
At least three letters have been
written within the past week
concerning the action of the
Board of Commissioners for
Brunswick county in the
appointment of three members
of the Brunswick County
Resources Development
Commission at their last
meeting.
Ckux of the matter is the
replacing of J. T. Clemmons,
only Republican member of the
board, enabling legislation for
the establishing of this
commission provided for the
appointment of a non-partisai
board.
J. Dewey Sellers, chairman of
Time And Tide
It was February 22, 1939, and the Original Floating Theatre was
coming to Southport. The craft was reported to be famed on “radio,
screen and stage,” somehow. The Southport Public Library had
received a gift of several novels from a Wisconsin sponsor; a story
named no less than 40 Brunswick Youths’ who ware attending
college throughout the South; and a bob-tailed fox had been
captured within the city limits.
The latest addition to Southport’s menhaden fleet had arrived
from Cuba after plowing through miles of red tape. A new column
had appeared on the editorial page. Its title, Not Exactly News. The
writer had observed that Mark Fargarson was the only Southport
resident who took his own tools with him when he went for a hair
cut. In Just Among The Fishermen it was noted that most local
citizens wished Bald Head to remain an island; Bolivia was to have a
woman mayor for the following Friday night; and Southport city
officials were planning to supnly electricity for the newly opened
section of beach.
It was February 23, 1944, and almost half of the front page that
week was taken by a picture of Cape Fear light. It was noted that
the steel structure had been in operation since 1892. The toll-free
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the Brunswick County
Republican Party, has sent the
following letter to Attorney
General Robert Morgan:
“I would like to call your
attention to a wrong that has
been done here in Brunswick
County. Last Monday, February
17, 1969, the County Board of
Commissioners met to reappoint
or appoint nine members to the
Resources Development
Commission. Section 10 of the
House Bill No. 282, chapter 268
entitled Authorization of a
Resources Development Tax for
Brunswick County provides for
9 bipartisan members appointed
by the County Board of
Commissioners.
“From the start the
Democratic board has been very
partisan. They only appointed
one Republican. Last Monday
they met and filled this
Republican’s place with a
Democrat, which makes all nine
members of this commission
Democrats.
“This situation cannot be let
to go. I solicit help from your
office to correct this wrong.”
Sellers also sent the following
letter to George Rourk,
chairman of the Board of
Commissioners for Brunswick
county:
v'Last Monday when you met to
appoint, or reappoint, members
to serve on the Resources
Development Commission it was
obvious that the one Republican
saving was deliberately not
reappointed. Neither did the
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ed off. Brickhouse sustained no injuries, and it is un
likely that at any time during the Daytona 500 in
which he won 12th place on Sunday was he in any
greater danger than he was during his impromptu
visit to Southport Saturday. (Photo by Spencer)
Race Driver In
Forced Landing |
'. Douglas Hawes, formerly in
charge of the Shallotte office of
Security Savings and Loan
Association, has been promoted
to secretary-treasurer and has
been made a member of the
board of directors of this
institution. This announcement
was made this week by H. T. St.
George, president of the
Security Savings and Loan
Association.
School Board
To Meet Mondaji
Heated and lengthy discussions
concerning the future plans for
school construction marked the
Monday night meeting of the
Brunswick County Board of
Education as plans were made
for a meeting in Raleigh Friday
with representatives of the State
Department of Public
Instruction and for a public
hearing in the Brunswick County
Courthouse next Monday
evening at 7:30 o’clock.
The latter is for the purpose of
discussing the forthcoming
School Bond Election.
The board approved the
following teacher contracts:
Leland —Herman Graham
Bryant, Jr., Nancy Dennis
Cherry, Linda Gail Griffin,
Midgie Lowdermilk;
Waccamaw—Earl Wayne Smith.
It also approved the sale of a
junk school truck from the
Waccamaw School and school
car from the Southport school.
The board accepted the bids for
the following vehicles: 1968
Plymouth, Ernest D. Holden,
Shallotte, $2,050; 1968
Plymouth, H. L. Summerlin,
Leland, $2,105; 1968 Dodge
Van, Shallotte Hardware
Company, Shallotte, $1,695.
Superintendent George
Williams read a letter to the
board from the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
in which the board was advised
that unless a plan for total
school desegregation of the
county schools was submitted,
Federal Funds would be
terminated at the end of the
1968-69 school year. This letter
was addressed to Superintendent
Williams with contents as
follows:
“In August of 1968, in
response to your requests, your
school Board was given until
December 1, 1968, to submit an
effective desegregation plan,
which you agreed to do in your
letter dated August 28, 1968.
Since you have not submitted
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Richard Brickhouse failed to
thrill the fans at the Daytona
500 Sunday any more than he
did the residents of Southport
Saturday morning when he made
a successful emergency landing
on Moore Street.
This successful 'young North
Carolinian race driver was flying
his own plane from Wilmington
to Daytona when his engine
knocked off and he had to set
his plane down in a hurry. He
* had been flying at a low altitude
because of a cloud cover, so the
straight, stretch of Moore Street
extended was the runway he
chose
His place dipped underneath
wires somewhere in the vicinity
of the Presbyterian Church but
Brickhouse said that hfe wheels
didn’t touch the pavement until
he had reached the causeway at
Fiddlers Drain. At any rate, he
came to a stop at the corner of
Moore Street and Atlantic
Avenue.
When he stepped from his
place he discovered: 1. That he
was alive and uninjured; 2. that
his plane had sustained only
minor damage; 3. that through
some miracle there had been no
vehicular nor pedestrian traffic
on the street and thus no injuries
or fatalities.
The young man, who drives a
Plymouth automobile sponsored
by Brunswick Motors, had a
deadline to keep, so he taxied
his plane down Moore Street to
Howe, thence out to the
intersection of Highway 211 and
Highway 87 where he parked it
and caught a ride over to the
Brunswick County Airport
There he was picked up by his",
friend, John Thompson, who X
piloted him the rest of the way;
to Daytona.
None of this appeared to have
upset him, for on the following
day he brought his Plymouth
into a 12th place finish, which
earned better than $3,500 prize
money. This was the first place
Plymouth and the highest finish
for any independent driver. Both *
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[Tide Table i
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I week. These hours are ap
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I 4:15 AM 10:52 AMI
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6:09 AM 11:40 AM: I
5:27 PM 11:46 PM I
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6:57 AM 12:22 AM j
6:15 PM
Sunday, March £
6:33 AM 0:34 AM
6:67 PM 1:04 pm'
Monday, March 8
7:15 AM 1:16 am '
7:33 PM 1:46 PM
'Tuesday, March 4
7:61 AM 1:58 am
8:15 PM 2:22 PM
Wednesday, March 5
8:27 AM 2:40 AM
8:61 PM 2:58 PM