,Jf' k, The Pilot Covers Brunswick County I THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of the News All The Time VOLUME 41 No. 4-1 14-Poqm Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1970 5* A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY To Advertise Bids On Three New Buildings Jack Croft, school architect, appeared before the Board of Education Monday night and discussed the final building plans for three area consolidated schools. He explained specifications and gave detailed descriptions of the three area schools to be submitted to interested bidding contractors. The schedule of bids and contracts calls for bids on all area schools to be submitted by 3 p.m. April 28. Croft gave the projected cost and revenue data on all schools. Attorney Kirbv Sullivan was present to discuss pending legal action being directed against the board by four signatory patrons of Bolivia School District and their Attorney, George Roundtree, of Wilmington. The subject of pending legal action is the selection of Beaver Dam as school site for the Southern Area School. All correspondence between parties of pending legal action and legal documents served on board members were discussed. The discussion also included to remove the action from New Hanover county to Brunswick county; and legal liability of signatory parties for any differences in bids by contractors caused by delay in construction of school. The board discussed with members of Southport Board of (Continued On Page Eight) Lawman Hurt / In Wild Chase . . vf / Highway Patrolman Lany Canipe was painfully injured Monday night in a highspeed flight and fight with James Galloway. Patrolman Canipe wound up with a 12-stitch -wound in his scalp and Galloway wound up in jail, where he is being held in default of $10,000 bond. The chase began on Highways 74-76 just west of the new bridge. Canipe turned on the blue signal and stopped a car operated by James Galloway of Brunswick County. “When I got out of the car to begin my investigation of Galloway, he immediately drove off, and the chase began again,” said Canipe. “This happened three times.” The chase went to Town Creek and reached speeds of 9d miles an hour. Soon afterwards Gallo way drove his car into the woods, and ten minute fight developed between Canipe and Galloway when Galloway resisted Canipe’s efforts to apply handcuffs, the trooper said. During the fight Canipe’s side arm fell from his holster. In the struggle Galloway came up with the pistol, fired four times and missed, Canipe said. Galloway also managed to strike Canipe in the head with the pistol, cutting a wound which required 12 stitches to close. Galloway threatened Canipe with the last round in the pistol foi' about an hour until Trooper (Continued On Page Pour) Sencland Community Action Bald Head Island Landmark Bald Head lighthouse was constructed on Bald Head Island in 1817. It is no longer in use but remains as an identifying landmark and the last visible evid ence of the island’s history. Bald Head Will Be Developed Bald Head Island, the subject of a conservation-development controversy for the past year, will be bought and developed by Carolina Cape Fear Corporation, a High Point-based enterprise that anticipates the eventual cost of development to be $288 million. W.R. Henderson, chairman of the corporation, said the corporation will exercise its option to buy the tropical island near Southport “very shortly.” The proposed residential and tourist resort, similar to a development proposed and dropped by Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, developer Charles Fraser, appears undeterred by the state resistance that prompted Fraser to relinquish his option to buy the island. Frank Sherrill, who bought the island in the 1930’s, is reportedly asking $5.5 million for his property off the Brunswick coast. According to Henderson, state laws on the books, interpreted as they have been historically, will present no difficulty in carrying out the plans of development. As outlined during a news conference, the Bald Head resort includes single-family housing; multi-family housing such as cabanas, apartments and condominiums; motels and a convention center RECREATION FACILITIES Recreational facilities feature a championship 18-hole golf course and club, yacht club, tennis club, swim club, sailboat Hit Or Miss? A series by Ed Harper, staff writer “Until this year, her position was that of ‘secretary,' but the Office of Economic Opportunity decided that not enough work was being done. So they added other duties and responsibilities and now, instead of working FOR people who know how to dictate letters, she’s working WITH poor people." The neighborhood centers serve only one-fifth the number of people they served before a fund cutback and a change of emphasis by the sponsoring agency, estimated the project director in charge of the centers' operation, but he insists that a better job is being done for those still helped by the centers. Robert C. Clark, the supervisor of the six Sencland Community Action, Inc., centers in Columbus, Bladen and Brunswick counties, said the current anti-poverty effort is concentrated: “We were skimming the top, but not anymore. Now we are doing a more thorough job in selected areas.” Last year, there were eight centers and two “satellites” in the three-county area. Each center employed a director, secretary and “five or six” community workers; the “satellites”, which served the same functions as centers but on a lesser scale, each employed a director, secretary and worker. There also were ten “Outreach” workers assigned to the centers, Clark said. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) studied the Sencland operation last year, and devoted a major portion of its report to the neighborhood centers. There resulted a major redistribution of operating funds, which prompted a reduction of centers to six and the elimination of approximately 34 jobs, according to the project director. A COMPLEX JOB “Each of the six centers has one employee — an ‘intake-referral specialist.’ ” He explained that the job is a complex one that includes counseling, referring poor people (Continued On Pag* rive) marina and entertainment center, as well as a mile-long public beach with bathhouses and a park with picnic facilities. In addition, the development includes a neighborhood retail center, restoration of the 1817 Baptists Get New Minister The Rev. John C. Dean is the new pastor at Southport Baptist Church and he and his family have moved here from Norfolk, Va. The new minister has served for the past three years as a Navy Chaplain and during this time pulled a tour of duty in South Vietnam aboard U. S. Destroyers. Before coming here was assistant Base Chaplain at the Amphibious Base in Norfolk. He will be released from active duty on April 23. The Rev. Mr. Dean is a native of Oxford, is a graduate of Wake Forest College and of Southeastern Seminary. Prior to entering the Navy he had held (Continued On Page Eight) JOHN C. DEAN lighthouse with a vacation center nearby, and service areas for fire and police protection, as well as several “package” water and sewage treatment facilities. Henderson said the firm’s schedule of development would have the island accessible to the public by the spring of 1971 with the first phase near completion. As to total development, he said the most probable timing would be ten to twelve years “depending upon the economy,” but a second long-range development could take eighteen to twenty years, with the entire (Continued On Pure Three) CP&L Revises Canal Plan For Power Plant The canal that will divert cooling river water to the Carolina Power and Light Company nuclear power plant under construction near Southport will take a different course than was proposed to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers last fall. The modifications are slight—the intake will remain at Walden’s Creek and the discharge into the Atlantic Ocean—but the change has made necessary another hearing. “Our earlier plans for taking cooling water from the river and discharging it offshore are unchanged,” said J. A. Jones, CP&L vice-president for power supply. “We have made some modification in the route of the discharge canal.” Jones said the change of plans was made after conferences and discussions with governmental agencies involved and after evaluating their comments. “In line with our expressed intentions of having the least effect on the surrounding area, we have filed the revised plan,” Jones added. A public notice dated October 10, 1969, announced an application by CP&L for a permit to construct within the navigable waters of the Cape Fear River, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, and the Atlantic Ocean the canals and structures associated with the circulating water system at their Board Meeting Held Monday - At the regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners here Monday James Skipper and Mrs. Murry Mintz from the Northwest area came before the board and stated that they represented a large group of citizens living on and or using road No. 1417 in that area of the county and requested improvement to this road. As a result of this request the clerk to the board was directed to relay this request to the State Highway Commission and recommend that this improvement be made as soon as possible. Farm Agent Archie Martin came before the board and gave his regular monthly report. The board approved a resplution entitled Fifth Judicial District Law Enforcement Hanning Agency and directed the chairman to sign and execute this resolution. Welfare Director Mrs. Emma Chadwick and members of the Welfare Board, F. H. Swain, Sr., Ernest McGee, Leland Massingale, Harold Robinson and C. P. Clark, came before the board to discuss the proposed budget for the coming fiscal year. At the conclusion of this discussion the board tentatively (Continued On Page Eight) e And Tide The time was April 3,1940, and a pretty picture of Orton Mansion was on the front page of The Pilot for that date, and listed among the more distinguished visitors at the historic plantation during the past week had been the First Lady of North Carolina, Mrs. Clyde Hoey. The census count had begun in Brunswick, and Southport churches, not to be outdone, had been conducting a religious census of their own. Plans were afoot to print a folder depicting scenes and places of interest in Brunswick county. “The Haunted Schoolhouse” was the name of the upcoming senior play at Southport High School, with Art Newton and Doris Corlette the leading characters. Two new columns made their bow in this issue of The Pilot. “The Lighter Side of Life” was on the society page and dealt chiefly with woman talk. Of an entirely different vein was “Political Pot-Pouri”, a sort of catch-all for rumors and facts about politics in this county—1940 being an election year. The runaway route of a Toledo, Ohio, boy had led him to Long Beach, and in our issue of April 4, 1945, there was a report that Chief of Police Otto Hickman had set in motion a chain of circumstances designed to return him to his parents. The Rev. Cecil Alligood, having resigned as rector at St. Phillips Church, was going to Atlanta, Ga., to serve as rector of the Church of the Incarnation. A group of visiting English Navy personnel predicted that World War II was near an end. The seniors—the 1945 crop of them—were at it again with their play in rehearsal. The title: “The Colonel’s Maid”; the stars: Ralph Potter, Wallace Moore, Jr., and Joe Walton. Capt. H.T. Bowmerhad taken out the first sports fishing party of the season, and everyone aboard his craft had reported a rough time. Brunswick tobacco farmers were marking time, waiting for it to get to be late enough to (Oonttnued On Pag* Hour) Brunswick Steam Electric. Plant north of Southport. The revised plans show that the circulating water system will start at the Cape Fear River ship channel near Snow’s Marsh and terminate in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Fort Caswell on Oak Island. The system will consist of an intake canal from the river to the plant, an intake structure from which the water will be pumped through the plant condensers, a discharge canal from the plant to the Intracoastal Waterway, an inverted siphon under the waterway, a canal from the waterway to a point near the o-ach, and a pumping station (Ooottaued Ob Page Bight) Storm Action May Settle Dispute Action generally attributed to a storm Sunday night is credited with opening a new inlet at Sunset Beach where the closing of Tubbs Inlet had resulted in considerable controversy during recent weeks. It is believed that heavy seas driven by high winds cut away the remaining sand barrier that closed off the approach of a new inlet channel a few yards short of where it could join the ocean. At any rate, on Monday morning the inlet was open and ocean water was pouring back and forth with the change of the tide to relieve what some had claimed were polution conditions that would affect marine life in that area. Those who had watched Tubbs Inlet gobble away at adjoining beach property now will be apprehensive about what may happen at the mouth of the new inlet until an'cT unless it Is stabilized. Tubbs Inlet ran from the inland waterway between Sunset Beach and Ocean Isle and thence into the ocean. Sunset Beach was being eroded by tides of the Library Group Will Organize A first for Brunswick county will be scored on Sunday when an organizational meeting of Friends of the library will be held. Mrs. Bobby Jones, acting chairman, says that the brief, informal gathering is for the purpose of adopting such by-laws as may be indicated and for clarifying the objectives of the group and for election of officers. Friends of the Library will meet at 3 p.m. in the main building of Southport-Brunswick County Library in Southport. Date for the meeting was set to coincide with the opening of National Library Week. A number of letters have been sent to people whom it was felt would be interested in furthering library service throughout the county. To date, 33 individuals and 2 organizations have joined and sent in contributions totaling $350 toward the purchase of the new bookmobile. A breakdown of the responses to the initial letter shows 5 memberships from Shallotte and $35; 4 from Oak Island and the beach area, and $35; 2 memberships from Winnabow and $15; 2 from Supply and $20; 1 from Longwood and $5," 2 from Leland and $15; 2 from Boiling Springs Lakes and $15; and 12 from Southport and $200. A membership coupon was returned from Little Rock, Ar,., along with $5.00 and another from Philadelphia, Pa. in the same amount. The Southport Garden Club and the Sunny Point Woman’s Club have joined as organizations. Membership in the Friends of the Library is open to any individuals, club, civic, fraternal, social or church group. The only requirement is interest in promoting better library service for all of Brunswick county, and payment of % membership contribution in any amount from $5.00 up. Anyone who did not receive one of the letters is urged to clip, fill out and return the coupon found elsewhere in this newspaper. inlet, and a permit was granted the town by the U.S. Corps of Engineers to fill in the channel, with the provision that a new inlet be dredged in an undeveloped sector to the. east. The latter has not been attempted. Merit of closing Tubbs Inlet was reclaiming and stabilization of the lots on Sunset Beach. On the other hand, critics of the act claim that hundreds of acres of (Continued On Page Four) Brown Nominee For Clerk Job Lonnie (Vick) Brown of Long > Beach, previously of Holden Beach, has filed for Clerk of Court for Brunswick County and hi ,unopposed for the Republican nomination. The 50-year old candidate is a < native of Selma, was raised on a tobacco farm and entered the U.S. Army in 1936. He retired after 30 years of service as a chief warrant officer. Brown received his formal education through the University of Maryland while in the Army and upon retirement, he made his home at Holden Beach and moved to Long Beach last September. He is married to the former Thelma Bason ; Singleton of Long Beach. Brown has two sons; Lonnie Vick, Jr.,' (Continued On Pag* IVnir) 1 LONNIE (VICK) BROWN Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport daring die week. These boars are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Gape Fear Pilot's Association. Thursday, April 9, 10:15 a.m. 4:16 a.m. 10:33 p.m. 4:16 p.m. Friday, April 10, 10:57 a.m. 5:04 a.m. 11:21p.m. 5:04 p.m. Saturday, April 11, 11:45 a.m. 5:52 p.m. 5:52 p.m. Sunday, April 12, 0:09 a.m. 6:40 a.m. 12:39 p.m. 6:46 p.m. Monday, April 13, 1:03 a.m. 7:40 a.m. 1:39 p.m. 7:46 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, 1:57 a.m. 8:34 a.m. 2:33 p.m. 8:46 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, 2:57 a.m. 9:38 a.m. 3:33 p-.m. 9:46 p.m.

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