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VOLUME 41 No. 39
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1970
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Ready To Build Pier
This was the scene on the Southport waterfront this (Wednesday) morning as
heavy equipment and a barge-load of material moved into place at the foot of Davis
Street and prepared to begin construction on the new municipal pier. (Photo bv
Spencer)
Seeking Bids
On Sewage Job
For Terminal
Savannah District Army
Engineers, headquartered in
Savannah, Ga., plan to seek bids
on April 3 for construction of a
new sewage disposal facility at
the Sunny Point Army Terminal
near Southport. A bid opening is
scheduled for May 5.
Estimated cost of the facility
is between $100,000 and
$500,000. The job calls for
construction of a sewage
disposal system consisting of
piping, pumping facility, and
raw sewage lagoon to support
the South Wharf operations.
Other work includes providing
a sewage lift station, a
chlorinator house and the
installation of the following
equipment: 1,500 linear feet of
four- and six-inch waste lines;
200 feet of 12-inch clay
masonry pipe for a lagoon
drain; 160 linear feet of %-inch
water lines; manholes and 1,000
linear feet of four-inch force
mains, along with site work and
sewer insulation.
All work is scheduled for
completion within 240 calendar
days. Plans and specifications
cost $2 and may be obtained by
contacting the Savannah District
Engineer, Savannah, Ga.
The Engineers have also
scheduled a second bid opening
on April 21 covering
construction of a barricaded
truck hold yard to be built at
the Sunny Point Army Terminal.
On March 27, the Savannah
District Army Engineers will
open bids on three landscaping
jobs at Pope Air Force Base near
Fayetteville. They include
landscaping and grassing around
the dispensary, and landscaping
around the recently completed
Airmen’s dormitory and Officer
Quarters facilities.
Two Contestants
Myra Lynn Hewett, left, and Pauline R. Lewis,
right, are the latest entries in the Miss Brunswick Page*.,
ant, which is to be held Saturday night at 8 o’clock in
Shallotte High School auditorium. This event is sponsor
ed by Shallotte Jaycees.
Jaycee Pageant
Saturday Night
Miss Brunswick for 1970 will
be chosen Saturday night from a
field of eleven beautiful and
talented young ladies who
promise to make the final® nn»
of the best programs yet staged
by the Shaliotte Jaycees. The
show will be directed by Mrs.
Shirley Ward.
The two contestants who have
not previously been introduced
are:
Miss Myra Lynn Hewett, 18,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Winfred Hewett of Ash, plans to
attend Southeastern Community
College to further her business
education. Myra is 5 feet 5
inches tall and weighs 130 lbs.
She has green eyes and brown
hair. Her hobbies include
reading, skating, swimming and
dancing. She is a graduate of
Waccamaw High School and has
just completed a quarter at
Miller Motte Business College.
Miss Pauline Ruth Lewis, 18,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
N. Lewis of Winnabow is a
senior at olivia High School.
Known as “Polly” to her
classmates, she plans to enroll at
Chowan College to study
medical technology.
She is a member of the
science, monogram, library, and
F.H.A. Clubs.
Her hobbies including skating,
swimming and playing
basketball.
She stands 5 ft. six inches tall
and weighs 128 lbs. She has
brown eyes and is a brunette.
Sencland
Community
Action
Hit Or Miss?
A series by Ed Harper, staff writer
The agency’s board has wasted more tune arguing about trivial
things than it has spent working towards a solution to povert)> in
Columbus, Brunswick and Bladen counties. The poor have suffered
again. ”
The board of directors of
Sencland Community Action,
Inc., comprises 27 busy people
who are not close enough to the
problems of the poor but are
interested in performing their
duties in an acceptable manner.
“There are some very able
people on the board,” observed
one member, “but most of them
are busy people. And some of
them are not overly-proud of
their attendance records.”
The Sencland Community
Action, Inc., board of 27
directors from throughout the
three-county area served by the
agency is supposed to meet
monthly, usually at
Southeastern Community
College. From the lower part of
Brunswick County, or the upper
part of Bladen, it is a long way
for some board members to
travel.
“One-third of the board
membership is selected directly
by the poor,” a member pointed
out, “and these are the ones who
would find it most difficult to
travel to the meetings.”
It is, however, the general
impression that the " poor
representatives are the most
faithful in attendance, another
member noted.
MORE INVOLVEMENT
Perhaps this is because they
are the ones most familiar with
the problems with which the
community action agency tries
to deal.
“It would be good if board
members were asked to take a
more active role in the agency’s
work,” a member suggested.
“One problem may be that the
board is not close enough to the
poor people.
“The board seems to have a
passive attitude-setting the
policy and depending on the
workers to carry it out.”
The usual Sencland
Community Action, Inc., board
meeting is a drawn-out session
frequently devoted to
discussions of procedure rather
than methods of action.
“It means we’ve wasted a lot
of time and money rather than
working against poverty.” said a
board member. He insisted that
the problem is not only with the
board; rather, he noted that
“management all the way
through the program has been
lax.”
“The goals of the agency have
been undeniably good,” he
continued. “It is in the means of
achieving them we have done
our poorest.”
‘CANNED’ PROGRAMS
Some board members are
unhappy with a transition they
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Funds For Jail
Construction In
County Approved
The State Advisory Budget
Commission has disbursed
$8,400 for the construction of a
new jail in Brunswick County.
The local grant, which will be
used to supplement other funds
for the jail construction, is part
of approximately $200,000 the
Commission divided among 19
counties and 11 municipalities
for the construction and
renovation of penal facilities.
The money was allocated by
the 1969 General Assembly.
Other allocations by the
Commission for new jails
included a regional jail for
Pasquotank, Perquimans and
Camden counties, $23,240;
Alexander $10,000; Caswell
$10,150; Cleveland $39,200;
Davie $10,010; Macon $3,150;
Onslow $36,648.85 and Stokes
$11,500.
For renovation of county jails:
Chatham $1,658.66; Craven
$3,450.52; Currituck $833.33;
Forsyth $2,059; Guilford $775;
Lee $666.66; Lincoln
$4,686.98, and Yadkin $623.33.
For construction of a juvenile
detention home in Mecklenburg
County, $17,500.
For renovation of a juvenile
detention home in Buncombe
County, $165.11.
For construction of municipal
jails:*
Ay den $2,153.06; Canton
$6,682.20; Erwin $398.62;
Murfreesboro $1,400, and Selma
$1,050.
For renovation of municipal
jails:
Apex $997.47; Benson
$833.33; Carolina Beach
$226.75; Cherryville $659; Red
Springs $598, and Statonsburg
$233.33.
Chairman Call$
For Hard Work
Brunswick Republican
Chairman Thomas Harrelson
called for a massive registration
drive before a joint meeting of
the Brunswick Republican
Women’s Club and the
Republican Executive
Committee at Calabash Monday
night.
Charging the present
administration with gross
incompetence, Harrelson stated,
“They have fostered and
encouraged geographic rivalries
co hide the fact that they have
done nothing to further the
development of this county.
This has not only retarded our
growth rate, but in some cases
has nearly brought disaster.
One specific area of thought is
the breakdown in law and order.
Despite riots in the Leland area
alone, the County
Commissioners have not
increased Sheriff Willett’s staff.
Recently they refused to grant a
pay increase to one of his
deputies. There is also reason to
believe that lack of respect for
government has contributed to
the minor crime wave which has
struck the Southport-Oak Island
area.”
Concreate plans for the
registration drive includes a
registration committee to be
appointed in each township, the
purpose of which provide
information about registration
law; booths in public places to
be manned each Saturday of
registration; volunteers
interested in registration urged
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Festival Committee Meet
Pictured above are chairman of various sub-committees of the Southport Fourti
of July Festival Committee discussing plans for the 1970 slate of events at a meet
mg last Sunday afternoon. Seated clockwise around the table are Harold Aldridge
vice-chairman; Jim Kenney, finance; Jean Kenney, reservations & lodgings; Susie
Carson, general secretary; Jimmy Russ, general chairman; Dorothy Davis, prograu
& booklet; Ethyl Tenan, treasurer; Jerry S. Sherrod, parade; Connie Young, invit
ations. & Hospitality. Present, but not pictured behind the camera were Bill Faulk
publicity, and Police Chief Walton Willis, traffic control. (Brunswick Town photo]
Highway Work
On 74-76 Due
To Be Started
The four-lane road project in
Brunswick County moved closer
to completion Tuesday when a
spokesman for the State
Highway Commission
announced that plans for six and
one half mile section of the
highway are in the Commission’s
design department.
No completion date was
released for the road
dbrcriYuethiti that will eliminate
traffic congestion in the Leland
area. The congestion is caused
by heavy passenger traffic and
industrial traffic through that
part of the county.
Floyd Bass, Highway Division
Engineer, said the four-lane
treatment of this stretch of road
will complete the obligations of
this divirion in the goal of
four-lanes for US 74 from
Wilmington to Charlotte.
Bass said that with the
completion of this project, the
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Scholarship To
Leland Youth
Howard David Shew, member
of the class of 1970 at Leland
High School, has been awarded
one of two “Mr. Senior”
scholarships worth $5,000 each
at Greensboro College. He will
deceive $1,250 for each of four
undergraduate years at the
Methodist-related college where
he meets academic requirements.
Shew, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Robert Shew of Leland,
was nominated for the
scholarship by the faculty of
Leland High School.
Scholarship, leadership,
extracurricular activities are
among determining factors in
selection of scholarship
recipients by a faculty
committee at Greensboro
College. William S. Ariail,
director of athletics at GC, is
chairman of the scholarship
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e And Tide
Announcement was made in our issue of March 13, 1940 of an
essay contest sponsored by The Pilot in conjunction with the
Brunswick County Forestry Service on “Why We Should Protect Our
Forests From Fire . Cash prizes totaling $100 were offered, with
fourteen prizes in all. There were two divisions, high school and
elementary school, and one of the inducements was that the winning
essays would be published. (Editors Note: This was one of the most
successful promotions ever undertaken by this newspaper, and
during forthcoming weeks you’ll be seeing more about this contest
and its entrants.)
Being rescued twice in a single day by the Coast Guard was the
record set by one party that was Bald Head Island bound, both
attempts being accomplished without loss of life or serious injury. A
front page piece told of the notable record achieved by the
Brunswick Guards during the Civil War; members of the Woman’s
Club already were laying plans for a flower show on April 17; and
Bolivia girls had gone to the finals of the Star-News Basketball
Tournament before losing to Beulaville.
A Red Cross cut dominated the front page of Wednesday, March
14, 1945. The Annual Fund Drive was on and patriotism was one of
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Planting Dogwoods
Mrs. Dallas Pigott is shown here planting a pink
dogwood tree in front of the Southport-Brunsw’ck Coun
ty Library as a part of Arbor Week observance sponsor
ed by Southport Gargen Club. The young man on the
shovel is her grandson, Jim Bo Clemmons. (Photo by
Spencer)
More Candidates
File For Office
iviure canaiaaies nave entered
various political contests during
the past week as the Friday
deadline for filing draws near.
Of particular interest is the
decision of Stacie Dunford to
contest Sheriff Harold Willetts
for the Republican nomination
for that office, apparently giving
substance to the claim that
Republicans not only will have a
candidate for every office, but
will set up as many primary
contests as possible in order to
get their people to work in the
spring.
The field of candidates for the
Democratic nomination for
county commissioner begins to
take shape with the
announcement of George Rourk
that he will seek to succeed
himself in that office as
representative from Northwest
township. R.L. Rabon, who
previously has served 10 years as
a member of that body, is
seeking to be the representative
from Town Creek.
i ne Held or Democratic
candidates for county
commissioner from Lockwoods
Folly became even more
crowded this week with the
announcement that J.W.
Robinson is the fifth candidate
in this race.
Olaf Thorsen has filed as a
candidate for the board from
Shallotte township, promising
opposition for Paul Dennis, now
filling the unexpired term of D.
Bert Frink.
Brunswick County Board of
Education members must run at
large this year, and the latest to
enter the field is Rabon, who
lives at Winnabow.
William J. McLamb, a veteran
Brunswick county office holder,
has made the race for
Democratic nomination to the
House of Representatives a
4-man contest. Both Brunswick
and Columbus counties are
included in the 13th House
District, which will be entitled
to two representatives.
Law Council
Ends, County
Joins Another
Law enforcement agencies in a
four-county area prepared for
the inevitable state redistricting
when representatives voted to
disband the Southeastern Law
Enforcement Council and join
two existing programs that have
full-time planning directors.
The changeover, which “will
improve criminal justice as well
as law enforcement,” was
okayed by agency
representatives who attended a
Monday night meeting in the
Bladen County Courthouse,
Elizabethtown. Their vote was
unanimous.
The next step is to present a
resolution to all participating
law and government agencies for
approval.
Columbus County was
represented at the meeting by
Sheriff Ben Duke, and Wade
' White, chief of the Whiteville
| Police Department.
! The Southeastern Law
1 Enforcement Council is
■ composed of Columbus,
i Brunswick, Bladen and Sampson
counties. Under the proposed
realignment, Columbus and
Brunswick counties would be
grouped with New Hanover and
Pender counties, while Bladen
and Sampson would join with
Robeson, Harnett and
Cumberlant counties.
Walton Willis, Southport
police chief who heads the
Council, urged the law officers
to reorganize, although they
were not required to. “If we
change now,” he said, “it will be .
much easier for us than it would
be if we were to delay.”
The state government plans to
divide the state into 15
multi-county regions that will
simplify the administration of
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County Board
Holds Meeting
Civil Defense Director Colonel
Francis Moffitt came before the
Board of Commissioners
Monday for a general discussion
concerning this department in
the county.
The following persons were
named to the Southport
Planning and Zoning
Commission upon
recommendation of the City of
Southport: Roy Swain, Bill
Blake, Howard Lee, Carl Kirby,
Jr., and Wesley Brown. These
appointments are effective April
1 and run until April 1,1972.
Tax Supervisor Ira D. Butler
came before the board and
several matters were discussed
concerning this department.
State of North Carolina Jail
Inspector W. A. Williams, Jail
Design Specialist Charles Davis,
District Jail Inspector V. A. Fish
and Architect Frank Ballard
came before the Board for a
general discussion concerning
the proposed jail building
program in the county. At the
conclusion of this discussion the
board approved tentative plans
in regards to this project.
Tide Table
Folk) wing la the tide table
for Southport during the
week. Theae hoars urn ap
proximately correct and
were fnrnlahed lie State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Oape Fear
Pilot's Association.
TIDE TABLE
Thursday, March 19,
5:21 A.M. 11:52 A.M.
5:51P.M. 12:04 P.M.
Friday, March 20,
6:09 A.M. 12:28 A.M.
6:27 P.M.
Saturday, March 21,
6:45 A.M. 0:46 A.M.
7:09 P.M. 1:10 P.M.
Sunday, March 22,
7:21A.M.. 1:28 A.M.
7:45 P.M. 1:46 P.M.
Monday, March 23,
7:57 A.M. 2:10 A.M.
8:21P.M. 2:16 P.M.
Tuesday, March 24,
8:27 A.M. 2:46 A.M.
8:51P.M. 2:52 P.M.
Wednesday, March 25,
9:03 A.M. 3:28 A.M.
9:33 P.M. 3:28 P.M.