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THE STATE PORT PILOT
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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
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Lawman Hurt /
In Wild Chase
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.,'
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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.