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\ m ssaw®••• yw*;-y'v:mt&m: The Pilot Covers ! Brunswick County! THE STATE PORT PILOT I Most of the News 1 A Good Newspaper In A Good Community All The Time noinmMiaMi 8 i VOLUME 40 No. 37 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1969 54 COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Officers Of Pythagoras Lodge The above officials for Pythagoras Lodge in Southport recently were installed. Front row, left to right, they are J. H. Russ, treasurer; A. W. Smith, Jr., Senior i; Warden; L. M. Pendergraph, Master; John Bray, Junior Warden; J. R. Hood, Sr., Sec 1 retary; Back row, left to right, Earl Elwood, Senior Deacon; J. R. Dosher, Junior |- Deacon; R. C. Daniels, Junior Steward; Anson Lewis, Senior Sentinel; Herman Strong, Tyler; William McDowell, Chaplain. (Baldwin Studio Photo) TERESA DIANNE KING g.' '■ . ■ : GLORIA MARIE ANN FALEY CHRISTY DIANNA CREWS More Entries For Pageant Are Received Three more contestants have entered the Miss Brunswick Pageant, which will be held at Shallotte High School auditorium on March 29. Mrs. Shirley Ward is the director. Teresa Dianne King is the 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer King of Winnabow and is a senior at Bolivia High School. She is 5-ft. 4-inches tall, weighs 130-lbs., has black hair and blue eyes. She is the Harvest Queen at Bolivia, a member of the Homecoming Queen’s court and was voted “wittiest” among the senior superlatives. She enjoys dancing. She is a member of the Monogram Club, Library Club, a cheerleader, F.H.A. officer and a bus driver. A fire baton routine will be her talent. Gloria Marie Ann Faley is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Faley of Long Beach and is a senior at Southport High School. She is 18, is 5-ft. 6-inches tall, weighs 127-lbs., has light brown hair and blue eyes. She is a member of F.H.A., Science Club, Drama Club and wants to attend Cape Fear Technical Institute. Christy Dianna Crews is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edison B. Crews of Holden Beach and is a senior at Shallotte High School. She is vice-president of the student council, president of the Beta Club, treasurer of the Commerce Club, member of the Science Club and is business manager of the high school annual, the Jolly Roger. She is (Continued On Page Eight) % Brief Bit* Of I NEWS SATURDAY GOLF Boiling Spring Lakes Country Club will have a traveling trophy golf tournament on Saturday. Entrants will play nine holes at their convenience, but finishing by 4 p.m. A covered-dish supper will be held at the club house at 6 p.m., following the golf. School Bond Vote Set For April Following a public hearing held in the Brunswick county courthouse Monday night members of the Board of County Commissioners held their third reading of the proposed School Bond Resolution and passed it. Similar County Board Meets Monday The regular meeting of the Brunswick County Board of Education was held Monday afternoon prior to the public hearing on the Special School Bond Election that evening in the Brunswick County Courthouse. The Board approved the teacher contracts for Jesse W. Howard, Shallotte, and John W. Ganus, Bolivia. James Thompson of the Leland School District inquired as to basis on which pairing of teams of the upcoming girls basketball tournament wore made and to selection of the location of the tournament. T. M. Lee, principal of the Southport High School was recognized by the board and gave a report indicating the procedure that was followed in planning the girls basketball tournament. Julian Altobellis and Gilmer Harr ill, Architect and Engineer, discussed with the board the various types and systems of school construction. The board entered a lengthy discussion on the proposed bond issue and it was suggested that many citizens hold the opinion that they should be allowed to vote on the number of schools that should be constructed. Francis L. Klemn, Executive Director of Southeastern Economic Development Commission, appeared before the board and explained the purpose of his agency and offered assistance in promoting the acceptance of the proposed school bond issue. action was taken in connection with the Jail Bond resolution. This calls for a special election on Saturday, April 26, with voting to take place at the regular polling places in the county and with regular election officials in charge. The total amount of the School Bond issue is $2,885,000.00 to which the sum of $506,000.00 will be added from a State School Bond fund as will the $140,000.00 received in the insurance settlement for the fire which destroyed the Southport High School building in January. With the total of these funds, it is proposed to construct three consolidated high schools. The location of these schools would be in the vicinity of Shallotte, between Southport and Bolivia and in the vicinity of Leland. It is expected that if a favorable vote is given the School Bond matter work can begin this fall with the three buildings to be available for use when school opens in the fall of 1970. When this takes place, buildings which now accommodate both high school and elementary grades will become elementary schools. Superintendent George Williams said Monday night that no school will be phased out of the program. Williams also assured the large crowd gathered for the public hearing that these will be complete schools, including gymtoriums, well equipped laboratories and workshops. He stressed the fact that consolidation will make it possible to offer all of the high school students complete, comprehensive curriculums for study. There were questions which were designed to develop information that was not clear to many of the citizens of the county. There was talk of two schools instead of the three-school proposal and there was a question raised about (Continued On Page Bight) Official Gives AssuranceOf Careful Study E. C. Hubbard, assistant director of the N.C. Department of Water and Air Resources, appeared last Wednesday at a hearing in Raleigh before the Senate Committee on Conservation and Development. He made the following statements regarding thermal effects of heated waste discharge: “Mr. Chairman and Members of the Senate Committee on Conservation and Development, I wish to first thank you for your interest in the subject of heated waste discharges and their potential adverse effects upon the State’s waters. The m ating is indeed timely, and I hope it will bring to light information showing the magnitude of the problem as well as possible measures which may be taken to prevent thermal pollution from doing excessive harm to our environment. “Waste heat is a pollutant which, if discharged to our waters in excessive quantities, can be equally as dangerous to water quality as the more tangible forms of organic and chemical wastes discharged from municipalities and industries. Thermal pollution may then be defined as the discharge of heated wastes to waters in such quantities and under such conditions as to cause deleterious changes in their normal temperature. “The North Carolina Statute defines pollution as any condition of water brought about by the discharge of waste which contravenes the assigned water quality standards. The presently adopted standards specify that no heated liquids may be discharged to the surface waters of the State which will increase the temperature of the receiving waters more than 7 degrees. F. above normal nor more than 95 degrees F. as a maximum, except that the temperature of trout waters may not be increased above 70 degrees F. “The cited numerical values were not considered acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior, (Continued On Page Bight) Yaupon Beach Has Committee After several preliminary meetings a Citizens Committee of Yaupon Beach was formally organized Friday night. N. E. Crocker was elected president, Miss Clyde Herring was elected secretary and Herbert R. McCorkle was elected treasurer. President Orocker stated that the purpose of the Citizen’s Committee is to assist in any and all problems confronting the village of Yaupon Beach and to insist that no legal rights or privileges be challenged or, dissipated, to create a citizenry with well-imformed attitudes towards city government in both devising and carrying to a fruitful completion all helpful programs for the city of Yaupon Beach. Regular meeting will be held on the last Friday night of each month at 7:30 o’clock at the Yaupon Beach City hall. The next meeting will be held on March 28. All citizens are invited to attend these meetings. gwim-'-m Governor Signs Proclamation Governor Robert W. Scott is shown as he signs a proclamation for observance of National Library Week throughout North Carolina, April 20-26. With him are Charles Adams, librarian at UNC-G, executive director of Library Week; and Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., of Southport, North Carolina Chairman of National Library Week. Holden Beach Incorporated By State Board Holden Beach now is incorporated and the area involved lies on the ocean side of the Intracoastal Waterway, between Lockwoods Folly Inlet and Shallotte Inlet This action was taken last week by the Municipal Board of Control, which is comprised of the Attorney General, Chairman of the State Utilities Commission and the Secretary of State. In this particular action Attorney Robert Morgan disqualified himself from the decision because he is a property owner at Holden Beach. John F. Holden has been appointed mayor, and the following have been named to serve as members of the Town Council pending a municipal election to be held on May 6: Hugh Dutton, J. D. Griffin, Sr., Joseph A. Hewett, Claude Van Wherry and E. M. Briles. At the first municipal election there are only 28 eligible voters. Mrs. Elizabeth Holden has been named to serve as registrar, with Mrs. Gladys Hare and Ban Elizon to serve as judges. Lincoln Day Dinner Held Some 75 Republicans heard Jim Holshauser, State Republican Party Chairman and House Member, say that tobacco is still king in North Carolina. The Brunswick county Republican party held its annual Lincoln Day fund-raising dinner at Simmons Restaurant, Calabash, Wednesday night. Holshauser said that Governor Bob Scott’s tax advisory committee reports indicate that without -,a tax increase the department’s bank balance would be zero by 1974, but the tax study commission shows there will be some $50 million surplus in 1974 without a tax increased He also said the 45 State House Republicans members are taking a long hard look at the tax proposals before they become committed either way. Time And Tide It was March 1, 1939, and the front page cut that week showed the legendary Southport Whittier’s bench - with three whittlers parked thereon. The two popular trees shown standing in the picture had been set out by Pack Tharp during the heat of a presidential campaign back in the 1890’s, and accordingly were named William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan. Capt. H. T. Bowner and party had made an early season fishing foray and had returned with 150 pounds of something; daffodil raising at Orton had become a big business, and over 40 persons were employed in some phase of the operation; and a Canadian freighter, the Cumberland, had been safely floated off Frying Pan Shoals where she had grounded. As incidental intelligence that week, Not Exactly News offered the fact that the block including the (them) Brunswick Inn had once been a slave stockade surrounded by an 11-foot brick wall. Southport’s Scarlet Masque Dramatic Society and Shallotte’s theatrical group had entered in a state-wide drama competition; a local plumber had almost been routed by Buck McDonald’s pet crow; and a group of interested persons were investigating the possibility of building a highway to Bald Head Island. (Continued On Page Fbur) Republican Leaders State and district Republican leaders attended the Lincoln Day Dinner held last Wednesday at Simmons Restaurant at Calabash. Left to right, they are J. Dewey Sellers, Jim Holhauser, Sheriff Harold Willetts, Marion Davis, John Thompson and J. T. Clemmons. National Library Week Proclaii fll Governor Robert W. Scott has signed a proclamation designating April 20-26 as Library Week in North Carolina and commending this worthwhile observance to its citizens. Present at the signing were Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr. of Southport, N.C. Chairman of Library Week, and Charles Adams, librarian at UNC-G, who serves as Executive Director. The statewide lay committee met also at the Executive Mansion to plan for the 1969 observance and adopted as its broad goal “making North Carolinians aware of the needs and opportunities for school, academic and public libraries”. This committee is composed of the following North Carolinians: Mrs. Robert W. Scott, wife of the Governor; Henry Belk, newspaper editor from Goldsboro; David Stick of Kitty Hawk, chairman of the Legislative Committee to Study Library Support; Senator Hector McLean, President of NCBL; Sam Ragan, publisher from Southern Pines; Miss Marlene Plyler of Salisbury, pres, of N. C. Business and Professional Women’s Clubs; John Wheeler of Durham, president of Mechanics and Farmers Bank; Dr. Rachel Davis of Kinston; and Jesse Helms, Vice-president WRAL Others who met with the lay committee were Charles Adams, librarian at UNC-G; Philip Ogilvie, State Librarian; Mrs. Grace Farrior, ass’t librarian, UNC-G; Mrs. Mildred Council of Mt. Olive, president of the N. C. Library Association; Miss Charlesanna Fox of the Randolph County Public Library, Asheboro; Miss Pauline Myrick of Carthage, supervisor of Moore County School Libraries; Mrs. Jane McRae of Elkin, Public Relations Director; and Miss Jane Wilson of the State Library. Plans for a statewide library luncheon on April 23 at the State University Faculty Club (Continued On Page Bight) Adopt Classes To Aid School Twenty-one church and civic organizations have recently become proud foster parents of most of the 650 students enrolled at Southport High School. The adopting organizations plan to assist their selected classrooms by helping to replace learning materials lost in the January 19 fire which destroyed the school. These materials will supplement those which are being provided by the .school administration. This project is an effort to help the effectiveness of the school program while in temporary quarters until a new school is constructed. The parent organizations and their adopted classrooms are as follow: Mrs. Cheers’ First Grade, Woodbine Garden Club; Mrs. Bowmer’s . First Grade, Sunny Point Woman’s Club; Mrs. Evans’ Second Grade, Southport Junior Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. Baird’s Second Grade, Jaycettes; Mrs. Echols’ Third Grade, Catholic Woman’s Auxiliary; Mrs. Smith’s Fourth Grade, Oak Island Home Demonstration Club; Mr. Shew’s Seventh Grade, Eastern Star and Boiling Spring Lakes Woman’s Club; Mr. McNeill’s Eighth Grade, Daughters of America and Southport Baptist WMS; Mrs. Francis’ Seventh and Eighth, Southport Methodist WSCS; Mr. McKeithan’s Science, Lions and Episcopal Woman’s Auxiliary; Miss Blackburn’s French and English, Cape Fear Home Demonstration Club and Ocean View Methodist WSCS; Mr. Banner’s Math, Oak Island Moose Club; Mrs. Foy’s Social Studies and English, Southport Home Demonstration Club; Mr. Allen’s Business, Southport Woman’s Club and Southport Garden Club; Mrs. Smith’s (Continued On Page Sight) Citizens Hold Meeting Here On OEDP Plans A meeting of interested citizens in the overall economic development fear Brunswick County and the area covered by the Southeastern Economic Development Commission was held in the City Hall of Southport Wednesday evening. Francis L. Klemm, Executive Director of SEDC, presided at the meeting and turned the program over to Paul G. Butler, Jr., Resources Analyst of the Southeastern Economic Development Commission. Butler gave a brief history of SEDC and stated that the meeting was in reference to completing the Second-Stage Overall Economic Development Program (OEDP). He related to those present the benefits of being in the district program, and further explained that any public works project financed by the Economic Development Administration (EDA) in Brunswick county would be eligible to apply for a ten percent bonus on the total amount of the project cost Examples of projects to be included in the Second-Stage OEDP that have been suggested by other counties in the District were given by Butler. At this time he opened the meeting for comments and suggestions from those present Mrs. A. r. Henry, Jr. stated that immediate attention should be given to the Brunswick county school system. Several persons asked if SEDC could help to organize meetings, obtain films, and sponsor seminars in order to educate the people toward the need for approving the school bond issue which is to go before the citizens of Brunswick county on April 26. A similar bond issue failed in 1966. It was felt that the lack or organization was the primary reason the earlier bond issue did not pass. It was suggested that the Board of Education make an official request if they wish assistance from SEDC. The second suggestion by Grover Gore was for an additional ferry. The problem is that when the ferry is being overhauled, as it is at the present time, there is no vessel to operate. A second ferry is needed very badly, especially in the summer, Gore declared. There were indications from the group that the State Highway Commission is interested in purchasing a second ferry at Southport Gore said he feels that the long-range plans for overall economic development in Brunswick county should include Highway 17 being four laned from Brunswick county to Jacksonville and that Highway 211 be widened to Supply and Highway 130 also be widened beyond Orton Plantation. Roy Stevens, director of the Brunswick County Resources Development Commission, suggested at this time that thinking beyond county lines in terms of roads would attract more tourist to the beaches. W. F. Cupit, Administrator at (Continued On Page Eight) Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport during the week. These hours are ap proximately correct and .were furnished The State Port Pilot through the oourtesy of the Gape Fear Pilot’s Association. HIGH LOW Auursday. March 6 9:03 AM 3:22 AM 9:33 PM 3:34 PM Friday, March 1 9:45 AM 4:04 AM 10:15 PM 4:10 PM Saturday, March 8 10:27 AM 4:52 AM 11:09 PM 4:58 PM Sunday, March 9 11:21' AM 5:48 AM 5:46 PM Monday, March 10 0:09 AM 6:48 AM 12:21 PM 6:46 PM Tuesday, March 11 1:15 AM 7:52 AM 1:33 PM 7:58 PM Wednesday, March 12 , 2:27 AM 9:04 AM 2:45 PM 9:10 PM
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