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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT m Most of the News A Good Newspaper In A Good Community All The Time PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Pillbox Overlooks Ocean a*. 1J1S concrete gun emplacement is tucked away in the liveoaks bordering the Atlantic Ocean in front of Oak Island Golf Course. The Club House is shown in the background. Most visitors to this area do not realize that this once was a Dart of the coastal fortification at Fort Caswell. (Photo by Spencer) Board Members Hold Meeting On Bond Vote The Brunswick County Board of Education met Monday night at Bolivia High School with members of the local school committees throughout the county and several actively interested citizens from each district. Chairman Norman Bellamy presided and Superintendent George Williams introduced the following Committee members and guests: Bolivia—M. B. Watkins, Roy Swain, Worth Mercer, V. J. McKeithan, Louis Harvell and Principal Edison Crow. Southport—Johnny Vereen, Leon McKeithan, Hubert Brittian, R. A. Jones, George Kell, John Bray and Carol Willis. Union—ftitrick Stanley, W. J. Marlowe, Louis Stanley, W. T. Bowen, C. J. Hardee, Jack Hardee, W. H. Bryant and James H. Bryant. Lincoln—Edison Moore, Willie D. Davis, W. M. Paris. Leland —Joe Gainey, member-elect, Board of Education. Chairman Bellamy expressed appreciation for the interest shown and explained that the purpose of the meeting was to begin actively working out plans whereby each area may promote interest in the bond issue. He pointed out the county board has up to this time performed their duties with the utmost care and consideration and at this time the local committees must step forward to actively participate in the campaign for better schools. ft was suggested that a steering committee should be named to be made up of local chairmen and persons whom they selected to assist them. The steering committee’s would return to (Continued On Page Four} Questions On School Study Answers to the school betterment questionnaire sent to selected individuals are encouraging, according to Mrs. Mae Barbee, who says the number of replies has been greater than expected. The opinions of local people about school betterment are being sought. Questions and ideas about school improvement and the proposed school bond issue are being listed. An effort will be made to find the answers from the Brunswick County Board of Education and the county school administration. These answers will be provided to those who respond to the questionnaire and to anyone who requests them from Mrs. Barbee, whose address is Yaupon Beach. Those who received questionnaires are urged to complete and return them as soon as convenient. « SHIRLEY WARD - ■ SHARON BRADSHER ■. - ■ :r. * 0 Pageant Plans Are Progressing The Miss Brunswick Pageant which will be held at Shallotte High School on Saturday March 29, will be directed again this year by Mrs. Shirley Ward of Ash. This year she will be assisted by Miss Sharon Bradsher. Both of these ladies have had experience in the fields of beauty and talent. Mrs. Ward is a native of Wingate, where she held several local and state beauty titles. This is the seventh year she has been associated with the Miss Brunswick Pageant In 1967 the first runner-up in the pageant was Miss Bradsher, then a student at East Carolina University. Inter that year she represented Brunswick county in the Blueberry Festival. While in college she represented ECU as hostess for the A.A.U. Swim meet. She was active in the Pre-School Clinics On Pre-School Oinics are now being held in Brunswick county schools and following is a list of requirements which the child must meet before he is enrolled in school: Copy of birth certificate (may be obtained from County Register of Deeds). Official record from the family doctor or Health Department of diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio and smallpox immunizations. (Measles vaccine recommended). Physical examination which includes a skin test for tuberculosis by the family doctor or Health Department. (Feces examination recommended). Following is a schedule of clinics: March 25, Shallotte High School and Leland High School; March 26, Lincoln High School; March 27, Waccamaw High School; April 2, Bolivia High School; April 3, Union High School; April 18, Southport High School. drama department during her student days. Currently she is speech therapist for Brunswick county. In addition to hear experience with the county pageant, Mrs. Ward has served as judge for the Azalea Princess Pageant, the Strawberry Festival Pageant and for numerous other similar events. She is married to Willie (Continued On Page Four) Democrat Women To Meet Friday The Deputy Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee will be the principal speaker in Raleigh Friday at the spring luncheon of Democratic Women of North Carolina. She is Mrs. Alfred B. Cipriani, and she’ll speak to more than 100 Democratic women from across the state at a 1:15 luncheon in the Sir Walter. Governor and Mrs. Robert Scott will be guests at the luncheon This is the first statewide gathering of the club since the annual conference in Winston-Salem last fall. The big order of business at this meeting will be discussion of a plan of organization for the state organization. Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., of Southport, vice chairman of the N.C. Democratic Executive Committee, is currently leading a move to reorganize the women’s club into a stronger facet of the senior party. Following the luncheon at the Sir Walter, the women will be guests of Mrs. Scott at a tea held in the Mansion. Mrs. Cipriani, a native of New York who now resides in Washington, D.C., has been active in political circles for the past 20 years. She was executive director for the Humphrey for President Committee of D.C. in the recent campaign, and has held a number of other posts, including that of treasurer of the Women s National Democratic Club. Alter Plans For City Pier In Southport The City of Southport has made application for a permit to construct a tee-head pier and six mooring dolphins in the Cape Fear River at the foot of Davis Street in Southport. The city now has submitted revised plans for an ell-shaped pier in lieu of the tee-head pier. These plans show a pier 10-feet wide extending from the foot of Davis Street to the 20-foot contour in the river with a 50-foot eli on the outer aid. Mooring dolphins are to be constructed at each end of the ell and two at 100-foot intervals from the west end of the ell. The determination as to whether a permit will be issued will be based on an evaluation of all relevant factors including the effect of the proposed work on navigation, fish and wildlife, conservation, pollution and the general public interest. Comments on these factors will be accepted and made part of the record and will be considered in determining whether it would be in the best ^public interest to grant a permit In cases of conflicting property rights, the Corps of Engineers cannot undertake to adjudicate rival claims. Written comments pertinent to the proposed work, as outlined above, will be received by the Corps of Engineers office until April 10. Easter Seals Being Mailed Mailing is now underway to residents of Brunswick County in the 1969 Annual Easter Seal appeal by the Soirthport Jaycettes. Brunswick county residents are bang asked to participate in the Easter Seal Fund drive by helping the local society continue its direct service to the area’s physically handicapped. The mailing of the 500 letters is being handled by the Southport Jaycettes under the leadership of Connie H. Young, who is in charge of the appeal bang held March 1-April 6. The volunteers have spent many hours addressing and stuffing Easter Seal letters, which present the Easter Seel story to county residents. Not only here but throughout the state and nation, the society sponsors equipment purchases and loans so that handicapped people can have wheelchats, walkers, braces, and <xutche6: it provides transportation to and from medical centers; its funds sponsor camper ships to Easter Seal camps (including North Carolina’s Camp Easter-in-the Pines); and money is given to clinics and workshops to further rehabilitation for the disabed. The Southport Jaycettes are affiliated with the National Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults, the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary agency serving the physically handicapped. Brunswick Town Visitors _ Girl Scout Troop No. 158, Wilmington visited Brunswick Town State Historic Here they are shown reading the inscription on the tombstone of 5ES?®? £L0rthu CiTohna Governor Benjamin Smith in the churchyard of the St Philips Church The group toured the grounds after seeing the slide program and cha^?e of 016 S5*011? was Miss Angela Carspreso. The troop en joyed a picnic lunch on the grounds. * Brother And Sister Named To Make Trip Two Supply 4-H Club members have been named State Delegates to the National Youthpower Conference in Chicago, Illinois, March 26-29. The trip is expense paid. Kenneth and Lynn Hewett, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Hewett, were named state delegates in the recent judging of records. They are members of the Busy Bees 4-H Club and students at Shallotte High School. Kenneth has been designated the “top boy” in the North Carolina delegation. Eight delegates ware chosen to represent the state—four boys and four girls. Youthpower is a non-commercial, educational program financed by North Carolina and United States Food and Food Related Businesses and organizations. The North Carolina Youthpower program is sponsored by the North Carolina Council on Foods and Nutrition, Inc., and North Carolina Farm Bureau. Youthpower Congress will give leading American teenagers an opportunity to discuss and give recommendations for raising nutritional standards, access to knowledge of career opportunities related to food, an opportunity to obtain the thoughts and the opinions of young people on the subject of food, provide a training ground for effective follow-up campaigns and to convey the important farm-to-table story to all participants. The Youthpower program has been in effect since 1959. This is (OonttaMd On Ftour) Time And Tide It was March 15, 1939, and both Bolivia teams had triumphed in the Brunswick County Basketball Tournament. Gene Austin had recaptured Southport after an 11-year absence. His return was not as the headliner of the prior decade, but as a pretty nice guy whom the entire community liked very much. The Pilot liked him, too, and while it ran his picture as a matter of custom, the things it said about the singer, both in news stories and in editorials, were highly complimentary. While here, Austin had put on what amounted to a benefit performance at the Amuzu, and had appeared informally to entertain in private homes. Someone finaUy took credit for Not Exactly News that week, a column which was, and is customarily, untagged. The byliner was Gene O’Brien. “Hoagy” Finch had organized an orchestra and had written almost its entire repetoire; someone had romantically launched a bottled note in the Cape Fear, only to have the missive found by a Bald Head fisherman; and the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church at Lockwood’s Folly was reported to be 200 years old. It was March 15, 1944 and death stalked the streets for all Southport dogs. As a precaution against a rabies epidemic, all local dogs were required to be either interned or interred. The county was noted as being far short in the current Red Cross drive; the R&S Amusements were to open the season in Southport; and Victor Bartels, Egan Hubbard and William Reynolds were serving with our forces in Africa. The wrecking of the lines of the W.B.&S. Railroad had been completed; Circles 1, 2 and 3 of Southport Baptist Church had met; ind Brunswick Republicans had opened the election year with a ‘fairly well attended” convention at Supply. It was March 16, 1949, and S/Sgt. H. M. Holmes, who has been (Continued On Pag* Four) Reenlisis In Army Col. Cary A. Kennedy, Jr., commanding officer at Sunny Point, is shown here as he administers the re enlistment oath to Sgt.l/c E-7 Lynwood M. Mitchell, who is assigned to the cargo division. Public Hearing Here Saturday By ARTHUR WILLIAMSON 13th Dist. Assemblyman (Columbus-Brunswick) Not all of the work requited of members of the General Assembly can be done inside our fine and spacious State Legislative Building nor even in the city of Raleigh. This has been the case with us for the past several weeks. On last Wednesday approximately sixty interested citizens of Columbus County came to Raleigh on behalf of a greater industrial development effort and several other projects which they feel would benefit the ColumbusrBrunswick county district. Rep. R. C. Soles and I met with this group, conferred with them at length and introduced them to many state officials. We feel they were well received. Later the group had lunch here in Raleigh. I believe the results of this delegation’s visit will be beneficial. We personally are working closely with the new chairman of the State Board of Conservation and Development, Mr. Gil Horton of Wilmington, on each of the matters with which this group was concerned and Mr. Horton has expressed encouragement. I believe we are fortunate to have a C&D chairman from Southeastern North Carolina who is familiar with the problems and situations which exist in our district. Mr. Horton feels as I do that diversified and appropriate industrial development is necessary to lift our overall economy. I feel that officials of the Commerce and Industry division are going to put particular emphasis on locating (Ooottauwi On Page Four) J. M. Rideout Dies Sunday Joseph Merrill Rideout, Jr., 74, died Sunday in Dosher Memorial Hospital. He was a World War I veteran, a member of the Southport Lions Club, a member of the St. Phillips 1 Episcopal Church and was retired from the National Geographic Society. Final rites were held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at St. Phillips Episcopal Church by the Rev. W. S. Taylor, Jr., with burial in Northwood Cemetery. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Virginia Richardson Rideout; two sons, Joseph M. Rideout III of the U.S. Navy and Prentiss Randolph Rideout of Yardley, Penn.; and five grandchildren. Pallbearers were from the vestry of St. Phillips Church. Pace Again Will Be Help For Students SENCland Community Action, Inc., has agreed to co-ordinate the 1969 P.A.C.E. Program which is designed to lend financial assistance to needy students now attending college and to those planning to attend in September. A student applying for this assistance must be approved by the college he or she is attending or plans to attend. In order to get this financial assistance, the student is required to work during the summer months. If a student is approved by the college, he is assigned to a work site. This work site may be any non-profit organization, willing to share will not in any case exceed forty percent of the student’s wages. Last summer -22 college students from Brunswick county received financial assistance through P.A.C.E. These students worked at 12 different sites throughout the county. The agencies participating were Brunswick County Board of Education, Brunswick County Health Department, City of Southport, Brunswick County Tax Department, Ocean Isle Beach, Brunswick County Library, A.S.C. Office, Town of (Continued Ob Pace Four) Owner Seeks Financial Aid Gene Watts, proprietor of Ocean Trail Rest Home in Southport, appeared before the Board of Commissioners at their regular meeting here Monday to ask for additional pay for welfare recipients who are boarders in the home. This was a joint meeting between the Brunswick County Welfare Board, Watts and the I commissioners. Mrs. Chadwick, >; welfare superintendent also was ' present Watts explained that persons on welfare do not pay the same rates that are paid by other patients. He said he has 14 of these cases with him now and that unless he is able to obtain ,, some financial relief he will be ' forced to ask the county to make other provisions for these people. He said that he is asking for an additional 88-cents per day for each of these persons. County Attorney E. J. Prevatte pointed out that this is a modest request when compared to what the cost can be if the county finds it necessary to go into the operation of a boarding home He was requested by the commissioners to determine if the county has the authority and the available funds with which to meet the request made by Watts. Judge Ray H. Walton appeared before the board to get a resolution directing the county auditor to accept funds for civil papers fees now being held in escroe by the Sheriff Department and to disburse them to the deputies who earned these fees. Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport during the week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State j <■, Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Oape Fear Pilot’s Association. HKtfl LOW Thursday, March 20 9:27 AM 3:22 AM 9:45 PM 3:34 PM Friday, March 21 10:03 AM 4:04 AM 10:21 PM 4:18 PM Saturday, March 22 10:39 AM 4:48 AM 11:03 PM 4:33 PM Sunday, March 23 11:21 AM 3:34 am 11:46 PM 6:34 FM Monday, March 24 12:09 AM 6:16 aM 8.-22 PM 'Hteaday, March 25 0:38 AM 7:10 AM 12:57 PM 7:16 pm Wednesday, March 26 1:33 AM 8.10 AM 1:57 PM 8:18 FM' Lsa*s—saaaaasMtf
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