Vote Saturday For Better Schools For Brunswick County
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VOLUME 40
No. 44
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1969 5* COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
New Commissioner
Mrs. Charlene Dixon is shown as she administers the oath of office to Paul Dennis,
who was appointed Monday to fill the uriexpired term of D. B. Frink as a member
of the Board of Commissioners for Brunswick County. Commissioner Frink resigned
because of his health. (Photo by Spencer)
Awards For Essay Winners
Prizes in the Library Essay Contest were awarded Sunday afternoon by Mrs. Sue
King, left librarian for the Southport Brunswick County Library. Left to right, the
winners were Patti Smith, High School Division; Rose Henry, Elementary Division;
and Cynthia Erlene Jenerette, Primary Division. Sammy Bellamy, winner in the Junior
High Division, is shown in a separate picture. On the right is Mrs. A. P. Henry, Jr.,
k Brunswick County Chairman for National Library Week. (Photo by Spencer)
%Brief Bits
BENEFIT FISH FRY
The Annual Shrineis Herring
>■, § Fry will be held Saturday at
Snowfield Landing on Town
Creek. Advance sale tickets are
available from Shrine members
throughout the county.
THURSDAY MEETING
The Southport Parent Teacher
Organization will meet
Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Amuzu Theater for the purpose
of electing officers and adopting
new by-laws. All members are
urged to be present
CANCER SUNDAY
Sunday has been designated as
Cancer Sunday and volunteers
will be conducting a
door-to-door campaign to ask
for donations to this cause.
Cancer crusade leaders urge
citizens to welcome them and to
give generous support.
MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Brunswick County Music
Festival will be held at
Brunswick County High School,
Southport, Friday evening at
7:30 o’clock. All schools in the
county have been invited to
participate. There will be music
from the Elementary
Departments, Junior High, and
High School.
Library Week
Observed Here
Representative R. C. Soles was
the principal speaker Sunday
afternoon at a program held in
Southport as a local observance
for National Library Week. Mrs.
A. P. Henry, Jr., who is
chairman for this event in
Brunswick county, made the
arrangements, which included an
essay contest that drew
participation from all schools in
Brunswick county.
Judge Ray H. Walton served as
master of ceremonies and took
over after the Rev. William
Davenport had led the
invocation and Mrs. Henry had
extended a welcome. Two choral
numbers were sung by the
Southport Junior High School
Glee Club, under the direction
of James Frink, with Mrs. Annie
Francis accompanist.
The speaker was introduced by
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., State
chairman for National Library
Week. Prizes for the essay
contest winners were awarded
by Mrs. Sue King, librarian.
In his talk, Representative
Soles who spoke on “Functional
Illiteracy.” He said that the key
to elimination of this problem is
reading, and showed that this is
an ever-important requirement
in this world where demands are
increasing upon improved skills.
“A man must be able to read,
and must have access to good
books, so he may acquire
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Beer Election
Set At Beach
Long Beach Board of
Commissioners in session
Saturday called for a Beer
Election to be held July 8 for
“off premises” sale only. The
board received a petition filed
with Town Manager Carol S.
Willis April 17 calling for such
an election. It was signed by 38
percent of the voters in the last
City Election. In 1964 an
election was held for “on
premises sale only” and was
heavily defeated.
In other action by the board,
Hannon A. Templeton, Jr.,
Director of National
Development Corporation, was
appointed to the Long Beach
Board of Alcoholic Control
replacing A.K. McCallum
recently appointed to the Town
Board. Templeton will serve
until January 1972.
Williams Is
Reelected As
School Head #
George Williams was reelected
superintendent and Ralph King
Kwas reelected associate
superintendent of Brunswick
County schools at a call meeting
of the board of education held
Monday night.
Mrs. Jean Fullwood
administered the oath of office
to Board Members Delmas
Babson and Joe N. Gainey.
Babson nominated Norman
Bellamy for chairman. On a
motion by Arthur J. Dosher and
a second by Homer Holden
' nominations ware closed and
Bellamy was elected by
acclamation.
Chairman Bellamy opened the
floor for nominations for
vice-chairman. Dosher
nominated Holden. On a motion
by Gainey and a second by
Babson the nominations were
closed and Holden was elected
by acclamation.
The board approved an
insurance settlement with the
Division of Insurance for the
Southport School property
which was destroyed by fire on
January 19. The claim includes
the following: Loss of building,
$140,000.00; contents of
building, $25,429.96; total,
$165,429.96.
Board members discussed the
up-coming school bond issue and
various efforts being made to
promote approval by the voters,
votors. y
On a motion by Babson,
seconded by Dosher, the local
school committee for the
Waccamaw High School for a
two year term was appointed:
D.W. Long, Freeland; Earlie
Smith, Ash; and Pearlie Vereen,
Freeland.
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Bowman Home
Is Set Afire
When workmen reported on
the job Tuesday morning at the
new residence of Judge and Mrs.
James C. Bowman, which is
under construction on Cape Fear
River Drive, they found that
apparently an arsonist had
visited the premises overnight
and had failed in an attempt to
set fire to the structure.
The fire had been started in
the basement area and 2x4
studding were charred by flames
which had been set at their base.
A saw horse had been burned
almost completely in two by the
heat of the blaze, which charred
and smoked a small area and
never caught enough to reach
the sub-floor of the first story.
“The Lord must have been
looking out for us”, Judge
Bowman said today. “Either
that or the lumber was too green
to burn”.
Judge Bowman was in
Greensboro where he was
scheduled to hold court this
week. He adjourned the session
and returned home Tuesday
afternoon. The SBI was called,
and an arson expert from the
State Insurance Department
entered the investigation, along
with local law enforcement
officers.
Receives Copy Of Study
Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr. is shown accepting a copy of the planning study report
which recently was completed in cooperation with the Division of Community Planning
in Raleigh. Members of the Zoning Commission for the City of Southport will use this
data to guide their actions for future development of Southport. (Photo by Spencer)
Students Push Bond Election
Students from several of the schools in Brunswick county attended a meeting
Tuesday at the Board of Education office to discuss plans for enlisting full support for
the School Bond Election this Saturday. Shown at the right as she participated in a
question and answer period is Leslie Zachary, Southport High School student. Ralph
King and Principal Crowe of Bolivia were adult advisors for this meeting. (Photo by
Spencer)
Bomb Threat
Upsets School
Program Here
What appears to have been a
bomb hoax disrupted school
activities at Southport Baptist
Church Tuesday when two high
school boys discovered a crude,
home-made contraption in the
furnace room before classes
convened.
Johnnie Vereen found what
appeared to be an explosive
device and called his buddy,
Eugene Tomlinson. They gave
the alarm, and within a short
time law enforcement officers
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Time And Tide
It was April 14, 1939, and Gapt. John Ericksen had once again
been nominated for the office of Mayor of Southport. There was
much interest in the Long Beach development, and reports had it
that a large pavilion would soon be constructed. Southport had
shifted entirely to dial telephone service; once again flowers were
falling before the onslaught of the local flower show; and some
visiting dignitary had announced that “No war is going to come
across the ocean to us.”
The latest installment in the Bald Head ghost series was provided
by Robert Marlowe and seconded by Victor Bartels. A mysterious
tapping had led them on a somewhat futile treasure hunt, i.e. they
had found the treasure chest, but not its contents. The yacht basin
at Fort Caswell had been dredged, and slips constructed for yacht
moorings; and Capt. J.B. Church of the “John M. Morehead” had
brought in the season’s first menhaden.
It was April 19, 1944 and “they” were running again. More
explicitly, red drum were being taken off Cape Fear in large
numbers. Pictured that week with several of these fish were
sportswriters from the north who had come to see if what they said
about Dixie fishing was really true. It’s a shame they couldn’t have
seen the whale off the Cape Fear bar on the preceeding Saturday.
Merle Hood, Harry Weeks and Raymond Mech had, though, and
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Special Election
Set For Saturday
Brunswick county citizens will
vote Saturday upon two bond
proposals.
One will be to authorize the
sale of $2.85-million to finance
the construction of three
consolidated high schools in
Brunswick county.
The second issue will be to
authorize the sale of $100,000
worth of bonds for construction
of a new jail.
During the past week there has
been a noticeable increase in
interest in the school bond issue,
and some people who had been
pessimistic about its passage now
believe that it has a good chance.
A special meeting has been
called for the courthouse in
Southport Friday night at 8
o’clock for the purpose of
making final plans to get out the
vote.
Voting will take place at the
regular voting places, with
registrars, judges and clerks who
served at the General Election to
be on duty.
Many of the citizens of
Brunswick county are asking, “If
the School Bond Issue is
approved on April 26, how
much will this increase my
taxes?” In an effort to answer
this question by the Board of
Education was furnished the
following information by the
Tax Department of Brunswick
county:
“It should be noted that the
average tax bill in Brunswick
county is approximately $55.
Therefore, if the School Bond
Issue is approved, it will mean a
tax increase of approximately
$8.85 to the average taxpayer.”
Should the $2,585,000.
proposed school bond issue be
approved by the citizens of
Brunswick county on April 26
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Paul Dennis
Now On Board
Members of the Board of
County Commissioners in
regular session here Monday
accepted with regret the
resignation of D. B. Frink as a
member of that board and
appointed Paul Dennis,
Grissetto wn farmer and business
man, to fill his unexpired term.
Commissioner Frink, who was
serving his fifth term as a
member of the board, recently
suffered a heart attack. He now
is a patient in a Wilmington
hospital.
Dennis is a son-in-law of the
resigned member of the board,
and his appointment is taken to
be a reflection of the respect his
fellow board members felt for
Commissioner Frink.
In his letter of resignation,
Commissioner Frink made the
following statement:
“I have thoroughly enjoyed
serving the people of Brunswick
County in this capacity and in
working with the Board and the
other County officials. My
association with all of them has
been most pleasant.”
Planning Is
Discussed By |
Local Board
The first of a series of planning
and development studies being
prepared by the Southport
Planning and Zoning
Commission has been presented
to Mayor E. B. Tomlinson and
the Board of Aldermen foj
review, it was announced
recently by C. D. Pickerrell, City
Manager.
The study, entitled “Phase ij
Population and Economy; Phase
II: Land Use Survey and
Analysis: is part of an overall
planning program being
conducted by the Commission
with the technical assistance of
the Division of the Community^
Planning in Raleigh, and is
designed to guide future growth.'
of Southport in an orderly and
efficient pattern during the next
twenty years. ;
inner studies to louow in this
series include “Land;
Development Plan”, “Zonirig
Ordinance”, and ''Subdivision
Regulations”. *'
The first two elements of the
program are used to develop a
physical Land Development
Plan. The Subdivision;
Regulations and Zoning
Ordinance will then be prepared
for use in implementing the
Land Development Plan.
The first part of the present
study (Phase I: Population and
Economy) contains detailed
information on population
changes and trends as well as
projections for the future.
Discussion is primarily on a;
county-wide basis due to
shortage of data on a small area
basis.
The economic side tells
local nd regional potential for
agricultural, commercial and
industrial development, payroll
distribution and labor force.
Mr. Pickerrell stressed the
importance of a program for
future economic development.
“The growth of any community
is influenced by its citizens”, he
said. “The economic well-being
of Southport and Brunswick
County will have bearing on the
future population and could
shape the destiny of the entire
county.”
Several recommendations are
made at the conclusion of this
report.
The Land Use Survey and, ?.
Analysis (Phase II) is actually a
preparation for the Land
Development Plan, Mr. Pickerrell
explained. The report takes
stock of the town as it exists
today. It documents previous
physical growth and attempts to
show how this prior*
development serves the present
day needs. Through analysis* the
good points of Southport are
outlined as well as mistakes,
which should be corrected.
“The Land Use and Analysis*
report provides valuable;
information for planning for the
future of Southport”, Mr.
Pickerrell stated.
He urged all persons interested
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Tide Table
Following la the tide table
for Southport daring the
week. These hoars ara ap- I
proximately correct and
were famished The State
Port Pilot through the
oourtesy of the Gape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
Thursday, April 24
0:46 AM 7:28 AM
1:15 PM 7:34 PM
Friday, April 25
1:39 AM 8:22 AM
2:16 PM 8:40 PM
Saturday, April 26
2:39 AM 9:22 AM
3:15 PM 9:40 PM
Sunday, April 27
3:33 AM 10:10 AM
4:09 PM 10:40 PM
Monday, April 28
4:21 AM 10:58 AM
5:03 PM 11:34 PM
Tuesday, April 29
6:15 AM 11:46 AM
5:52 PM
Wednesday, April SO
8:03 AM 0:22 AM
6:39 PM 12:28 PM