The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
VOLUME 41 No. 38
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THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Bookmobile In Trouble
The Brunswick County Bookmobile has given long and faithful service to resid
ents m all sections of the county during the past 10 years, but time and the 85,000
miles on its odometer have taken their toll. Here Mrs. Patti Spencer, the operator,
stands forlorniy beside her disabled vehicle, hoping that it soon will be back on the
road. (Photo by Spencer)
Brunswick To
Form Friends
Of Library
An official “Friends of the
Library” group is now being
organized in Brunswick County
with Mrs. Bobby Jones of
Southport acting as temporary
chairman.
Purposes of the group will be
to create public support for an
expanding library program; to
encourage gifts, endowments
~ and memori als'; ’ to provide direct
financial assistance in purchasing
needed items not available
through the regular budget, and
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Chief Leonard
Resigns Post
E. V. Leonard, veteran law
enforcement officer, has
submitted his resignation as
Chief of Police at Yaupon
Beach, thus ending a career of
almost two-score years.
Following is his letter of
resignation to Mayor C. E.
Murphy:
“It is with many, many regrets
that I am forced, due to ill
health, to tender my resignation,
as your Chief of Police, to
become effective March 31,
1970.
“All of you have been very,
very wonderful to me, and I
appreciate it very much.
“If, at any time, I am able to
help any of you, in any manner,
please feel free to call on me.”
Following is the text of a note
he addressed to the editor of this
newspaper:
“I have just won an awful
battle with pneumonia. I have
nothing but the highest of
praises for my doctors,
wonderful nurses, nurses aides,
and all employees of Dosher
Memorial Hospital. They were
all very good to me.
“I want to thank all who sent
beautiful flowers and cheerful
get-well cards.”
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Community
Action
Charles Mumford has known
about poverty all his life.
He was born into it, he fought
it as a policeman in the nation’s
capital and now he is executive
director of an agency struggling
to eliminate it.
The 40-year old Mumford was
graduated from Booker T.
Washington High School,
Clarkton, and attended
Fayetteville State Teaches
College, one of three schools to
offer scholarships to him. He
was graduated with honors from
the college in 1949 after
Shadows Of Eclipse
This photograph of St. Philips Church at Brunswick
Town State Historic Site was taken at 1:30 p.m. or
March 7 during the eclipse of the sun. Note the long
shadov' cast by the north wall of the structure. In the
eerie light when the moon almost completely covered
the sun, birds hushed their chirping and several robins
were noted scurrying around in apparent confusion.
(Brunswick Town photo)
St. Philips Site
Now On Register
Representative Alton Lennon
announced this week that the
U.S. Department of Interior,
National Park Service, advised
him that the St. Philips Church
ruins in Brunswick county has
been nominated for the
implementation of the National
Historic Preservation Program in
North Carolina. The remains of
the Historic site of Old
Brunswick have been entered
into the National Register of
Historic Places.
Representative Lennon said, “
am delighted that the ruins o!
St. Philips Church at 01<
Brunswick have been added t<
the National Register of Historic
Places, for certainly this site is o
historic significance as i
reminder of the early settlers o:
Brunswick county and of thei:
determination to be free men.’
As most Brunswick natives
know, the residents of towr
were the first to oppose the
Stamp Act imposed by Greai
Britain.
Hit Or Miss?
A series by Ed Harper, staff writer
registering the third highest
grade average in his class. He was
student body president one year
and class president three times.
Utilizing a double major of
elementary education and
physical education, he taught
and coached five years at
Lillington and Clarkton, and
then served in the United States
Army for two years.
FORMER POLICEMAN
He joined the Washington,
D.C., Department of Recreation
and worked with people of
different ethnic backgrounds,
but who had something in
common: “Most of them lived in
poverty,” Mumford
remembered.
He took a job with the
W'ashington metropolitan police
department and was assigned to
an area which contained “more
slums, poverty and crime than
any other area in the city.”
During his work as a
policeman Mumford decided
“arresting people and taking
them to jail was not the answer”
and worked to develop a local
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Bolivia Water
System Project
Given Approval
Congressman Alton Lennor
annouced this week the approval
of a $37,000 loan and grant ol
$26,000, by the Fanners Home
Administration to the Town ol
Bolivia to build a rural
community water system.
The loan and grant will enable
the town to construct deep
wells, erect an elevated storage
tank and install approximately
four miles of pipeline. About
fifty families and businesses will
be served, including the Bolivia
school of over 400 students.
Families in the town now
depend on shallow wells for
their water. These wells are
usually located near septic tanks
and present a constant danger of
contamination. Most well
supplies now contain iron and
sulphur and must be treated.
The new system will encourage
new home construction and
serve to attract small industry.
The town recently held a bond
referendum with over 80% of
tie voters in favor of the bond
issue.
This direct loan from the
Fanners Home Administration
will be repaid in 40 years at an
interest rate of 5 percent.
Security will consist of general
obligation bonds with income
from the sale of water serving to
retire the debt and operate the
system.
Rural water system financing
is extended through the Fanners
Home Administration to rural
towns and nonprofit
corporations. Loans are made
only when adequate credit at
reasonable rates and terms is not
otherwise available.
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Sign-Up For w
Farm Program *
The sign-up period for the
1970 cotton, feed grain, and
wheat programs will close March
20.
Farmers are encouraged to sign
up as early as possible in order
to avoid the last minute rush.
Since advance payments are not
being made in 1970, many
farmers have not signed up as
early as In prior years and this
can result in farmers having to
wait in line if they delay signing
up until the last week.
Each of these programs has a
wide variety of options available
to the fanner, and the programs
offer price support and
price-support payments to
participating farmers. Farmers
may also earn diversion
payments under the feed grain
and wheat programs. They are
urged to study each of these
programs carefully.
1970 COTTON PROGRAM
All cotton fanners, who have
not done so already should visit
the ASCS Office before March
[ 20 to discuss the provisions of
the 1970 cotton program. If no
l cotton is to be planted on a
, farm, the operator needs to
either sign up in the program or
’ release his allotment.
i If cotton is to be planted, the
operator should sign up. Of the
102 cotton farmers in the
county, only 60 have filed
. intentions to participate in the
1970 program.
The farmer who does nothing
will lose allotment next year.
Democrat Women
!£<fk ®ld> National Committeewoman for North Carolina, is shown her<
County Democratic Women organization during t
luncheon held Tuesday at Lorraine Restaurant at Long Beach Left to rieht thei
vice-president; Mrs. Carol Willis, president; Mrs Winfield
and Mrs. Ouida Hewett, secretary. (Photo by Spencer)
Mrs. Winfield
Speaker For
Demo Women
..Mrs, „.jJ.0.1itL 0«i.d.
Democratic National
Committeewoman from North
Carolina, was the speaker at the
spring meeting of the
Democratic Women of
Brunswick County on Tuesday
at the Lorraine Restaurant at
Long Beach. Mis. Carol Willis of
Southport, president of the
organization, presided at the
meeting which was attended by
about 75 Democratic women
from all parts of the county.
Mrs. Winfield, a past state
president of the Home
Demonstration Clubs, urged the
women to full participation in
the coming elections and
pointed out the need for
becoming involved in the
election process. “Everything
around us is affected by politics
and it is imperative that women
concern themselves with the
solution of the many problems
which face us,” said Mis.
Winfield.
The speaker was introduced by
Mrs. Margaret Harper,
vice-chairman of the N.C.
Democratic Executive
Committee. Officeis present for
the meeting were Mis. Jean
Full w ood of Southport,
vice-president, and Mis. Ouida
Hewett of Shallotte,
secretary-treasurer.
Mrs. Judy Sawyer assisted with
the registration. Announcement
was made of District Women’s
workshop and luncheon at
which Mis. Robert Scott will be
ihe speaker. This will be on
Tuesday, April 28, in
Lumber ton. All Democratic
women are urged to attend this
meeting.
e And Tide
More February fishing, only this time it was a picture on page 1 on
the March 6 edition of The Pilot. The year, by the way, was 1940.
The fisherman was Charles A. Farrell, Greensboro photographer,
who had also brought along his camera. Southport was an entrant in
the district drama contest in Tabor City. The play; “Dead Or Alive”;
the Star: Doris Harrelson. News from Bald Head Island was to the’
effect that Superintendent Charles Matthews had launched an
ambitious truck-growing project.
Photographs of the Southport area were being sent out by the
State Advertising Bureau and a new batch of photos was in prospect
as a result of a weekend of Camera Club members to Bald Head
Island. Bolivia girls and Leland boys had won championship honors
in the annual high school basketball tournament; movie of the week
was “Hunchback of Notre Dame”—not a football picture—with
Charles Laukhton as the star; and some excitement had been created
in the local waferfront when a ship of Honduran registry had been
held up while Coast Guard members searched for “suspicious” cargo.
Tobacco curing season still was far away, but a headline on March
7, 19*»5, proclaimed that “Fuel Oil Ration Available To Brunswick
Leaf Farmers . Miss Alene McLamb was coming to Brunswick as the
new home demonstration agent, or so said a front page story. Another
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Democral Candidates
Jack Brown, left, and Robert Galloway, right, have
announced as candidates for the Democratic nomination
for Clerk of Court, a post Brown has held for the past
16 years.
Two Men File For
Office Of Clerk
Two men announced this week
for the Democratic nomination
for the office of Clerk of Court
for Brunswick county. One is
Jack Brown, now completing his
16th year in this office, and the
other is Robert Galloway, who
Schedule For
School Clinics
Preschool clinics for children
who will enroll in the first grade
for September, 1970, will begin
March 19.
Requirements which must be
met before a child is enrolled in
school are:
1. Birth Certificate (may be
obtained from Register of Deeds
in county where child was bom)
2. Physical Examination which
includes a tuberculin skin test
(obtained from family physician
or health department)
3. Proof of a completed senes
of: a. diphtheria, tetanus,
whooping cough, b. smallpox c.
polio (These also obtained from
family physician or health
department).
In addition to the above
requirements, measles vaccine is
recommended.
Notice of time, dates and
forms to be completed are now
being sent out from the schools.
If one does not receive these,
contact the school, or the health
department and pick them up.
rhe Board of Education,
rrincipals and health department
i tress that these must be
:ompleted before a child can be
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will be making his first bid for
public office.
Brown, who is a native of
Longwood, formerly served as
Tax Collector for Brunswick
county, a position also held by
his father, the late L. C. Brown.
He is married to the former
Marie Sommersette, public
health nurse, and they have one
daughter, Jeanne Brown, also a
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Carlton Price
Dies Suddenly
William Carlton Price, 67, died
Monday in Dosher Hospital.
Final rites were held Wednesday
at 2 p.m. at Bethel Church by
the Revs. Bryan Dosher and
Hitton Willetts, with burial in
Northwood Cemetery.
The deceased was a leading
merchant of Southport and was
active in the business, civic and
religious activities of this
community.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Aline Price; four daughters]
Mrs. Glennie Simmons,
Freeport, Texas, Mrs. Dorothy
Freeman, Gainesville, Fla., Mrs.
Joyce Splann, Carolina Beach
and Mrs. Cheryl Miller,
Southport; six brothers, F.
Dillard and Roy P. Price of
Southport, Bennie, Beaufort,
Kimble of Viola, Dela. and W.
W. Price of Woodstown, N.J.;
and two sisters, Mrs. Orine
Bowmer and Mrs. Althea Smith,
both of Southport.
! Board Backs
! Decision On, .
| School Site
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met in regular
session Thursday in the
superintendent’s office.
Jack Croft, school architect,
was present and was asked to
review plans of the proposed
consolidated school buildings.
Many questions were directed to
him on structural phases of
building plans, sewage and
drainage characteristics.
Providing Beaver Dam is to be
the Southern School site, school
plans are to be submitted to
construction bidders in April
initial school construction to
begin in May. The board and
Croft discussed different phases
of the architect’s contract.
Board members authorized the
Town of Shallotte to make a test
boring, or test borings as
necessary, for a well on the
Western School site, which will
serve Shallotte-Union
Waccamaw. The location of such
tests is to be subject to the
approval of the Superintendent
of Schools.
The board approved action on
the sale of the following
vehicles: County office cars:
1—1969 Plymouth, Ser. No.
PL41G9F192840 (green), higi
bid, $1,975, L.A. Stanley,
Shallotte; 1—1969 Plymouth,
i Ser. No. PL41G9F189891
i (white), high bid, $1,825,
' William Baker Harrell, Shallotte;
; Shallotte school vehicle: 1—1969
Chevrolet Station Wagon, Ser.
No. 156469Y035694, high
bid-$2,100, William E. Simons,
Shallotte.
It was agreed to hire Parity
Simmons as part-time teacher
aide for A-V Center.
Superintendent Ralph King
gave the following reports on
. Beaver Dam approved physical
location of both sites subject to
final approval based on
inspection results by North
Carolina Department of Health
(sewage and drainage phases)
and engineer results of soil
testing and boring for school's
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Call For Bids
On Howe Street
Widening of Howe Street in
Southport is part of the road
construction for which the
North Carolina State Highway
Commission has called for bids.
Hie Commission announced
that the bids were calied-for the
first week in March. They will be
opened and the low-bidder
determined March 24.
The road construction in
Southport is one of 31 projects
announced by the State
Highway Commission. Total
mileage affected by the projects
is 421.9 in 38 North Carolina
counties.
Hie local project calls for “.6
mile, grading, coarse aggregate
base course, bituminous
concrete binder and surface, to
widen Howe Street (N.C. 211) in
Southport from approximately
95 feet north of 9th Street,
southedy to West Street.”
Tide Table
Following- la the tide table
tor 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.
Thursday, March 12,
11:27 a.m. 5:28 a.m.
1:51p.m. 5:40 p.m.
Friday, March 13,
12:21 a.m. 6:22 a.m.
6:28 p.m.
Saturday, March 14,
0:45 a.m. 7:16 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 7:22 p.m.
Sunday, March 15,
1:45 a.m. 8:16 a.m.
2:15 p.m. 8:22 p.m.
Monday, March 16,
2:45 a.m. 9:16 a.m.
3:15 p.m. 9:28 p.m.
Tuesday, March 17,
3:45 a.m. 10:16 a.m.
4:09 p.m. 10:22 p.m.
Wednesday, March 18,
4:33 a.m. 11:04 a.m.
5:03 p.m. 11:16 p.m.