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honored Ai Jaycee Banquei
Robert Howard, center, received double honors at the annual Jaycee banquet
Friday evening when he not only was installed as the new president of the organ
hfnnw Tnl na?eTd uMan of tlie Year- William p°well, left, was speaker for the
banquet and Cheryl Johnson, right, 4th of July Festival Queen, was a guest of
honor. (Photo by Spencer) '
Congressman Inspects Erosion
Congressman Alton Lennon visited Brunswick County Monday, and one stop
on his tour was at Yaupon Beach, where erosion has taken a heavy toll alone the
oceanfront. Clarence Murphy, second from the left, is shown pointing to the form
er location of a cottage which was moved from a foundation now awash with
ocean tides. Pictured here, left to right, are Johnny Vereen, Murphy, Gib Barbee,
Congressman Lennon, Douglas Jones, a Brunswick County man who is his admin
istrative assistant, Frank Aman and Jack Allen. (Photo by Spencer)
Bomber Plane
Helps Control
Tuesday Fire
A forest fire that started
northeast of Shallotte and
“headed for the Green Swamp”
was brought under control
before it reached the
timberlands, but only with the
help of the B-17 bomber based
in Wilmington and three smaller,
“Snow” bombers from Kinston.
George Blake, in charge of
operations for the North
Carolina Forestry Service
fire-fighters, said the Shallotte
blaze burned approximately 65
acres of woodsland about one
mile north of US Highway 17.
He said the Service used the
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Sencland
Community
Action
Congressman Hears
Erosion Problems
Congressman Alton Lennon
visited several places in
Brunswick county Monday, and
among them was Yaupon Beach,
where he met with a group of
citizens who are concerned with
the effects of erosion.
This was not their first
conference with the
congressman, and he undertook
to bring them up to date on
progress that has been made in
obtaining relief for their plight.
He made it clear that he admired
the initiative taken by the
citizens of Yaupon Beach and
Long Beach in attempting to
provide local matching funds for
federal and state appropriations
which will be necessary to get
the job done.
“Beach erosion is a problem
affecting the nations’ entire
coastline,” said Congressman
Lennon. “Some areas are more
severely eroded than others and
the N.C. coastline has been
averaging a loss of about 7 feet
per year over the last 30 years.
Yaupon, Holden and Sunset
beaches have sustained severe
erosion in the last few years
from the damaging forces of
wind-driven water on the
rampage.
“In 1966,” he continued, “I
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Hit Or Miss?
A series by Ed Harper, staff writer
“An organizer worked in a community three weeks before she
found a family that earlier reports had overlooked. The people lived
in a pack-house under unhealthy, uncomfortable conditions; they
were 'outcasts’from a community that itself was in poverty. ”
A frequent criticism of
Sencland Community Action,
Inc., is that too many poor
people remain either unserved
by or unaware of the services
that the agency supposedly
provides for the people of
Columbus, Bladen and
Brunswick counties. Because the
activity is not obvious, the
critics surmise, there is none.
This is a misconception
according to Robert C. Clark’
who is project director of the
Community Organization
program.
“It is true that we are not
serving as many people in as
many areas as we were before,”
he said, “but the service we are
providing is more effective.”
The Office of Economic
Opportunity (0E0), the federal
agency that supports the
community action program, has
instructed Senciand to
decentralize its operation to
better reach the poor people,
but at the same time concentrate
on specific “target areas” to
improve the quality of its
programs. To fulfill the
requirements Sencland reduced
the number of its neighborhood
centers to six and employed 36
workers, each of whom is
assigned a community in which
he or she is supposed to develop
efficient organization.
There are five community
organization specialists and one
senior community organizer
assigned to each of the centers in
the three-county area. Although
$217,000 of Sencland’s
$509,000 budget is allocated for
the Community Organization
program, the pay for the 36
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Joint Meetings
For Installation
Of New Officers
The Southport Jaycees and
Jaycettes held a joint awards
banquet and installation of
officers Friday evening at the
Lorraine Restaurant. Out-going
Jaycee President Bob Stanley
welcomed the members, wives,
and special guests. Mr. Harold
Aldridge then gave the
invocation.
After the dinner Dempsey
Hewett introduced the speaker,
W. A. Ppwell, a local attorney
and past president of the
Southport Jaycees, who spoke
on the relationship of the Jaycee
Creed and the Constitution’s Bill
Of Rights. He pointed out how
in this day of youthful
questioning the young men of
the Jaycees base their actions on
fundamental constitutional
rights.
Special guest, Miss 4th of July,
Cheryl Johnson, was introduced
by President Stanley and she
thanked the Jaycees and
Jaycettes for their interest and
aid in making this past year an
unusual and happy experience.
She was then presented a small
gift by the Jaycees for having
represented Southport for the
past year.
Powell installed the new
Jaycee and Jaycette officers for
1970-71. They were,
Jaycees-President, Robert
• Howard; 1st vice-president,
Dempsey Hewett: 2nd
vice-president, Irving Smith;
• secretary, Jim Kenney; treasurer,
Ben Blake; directors, Lee
Aldridge and Charles Trott; state
director. Bob Stanley; Jaybird,
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New Pastor At
Bethel Baptist
Rev. Macon M. Wood is the
new pastor at Bethel Baptist
Church, Southport.
Rev. Wood is married to the
former Elisa Godfrey of El Paso,
Texas. They have three children:
Gregory, David and Phyllis Ann.
He is a graduate of Fruitland
Baptist Bible Institute, and
Southeastern Theological
Seminary.
Rev. Wood and family comes
to Bethel Baptist Church from
Hampstead, where he served as
pastor for three years.
REV. M. M. WOOD
Friends Of Library Officers
^es® oncers of the newly-organized Friends of the Library for which
HenrvgairZa«fnw-m6Ktmg was.^eld Sunday afternoon. On the left is Mrs. A. P.
HeFy.’ Jr;> of Winnabow, president; Mrs. Catherine Skipper of Leland treasurer
and Mrs. Viola Thomas of Leland, secretary. Mrs. Christine Andrews of Shallotte’
vice-president, was not available for this picture. (Photo by Spencer)
Shrine Meeting
Held Wednesday
At Long Beach
Brunswick County Nobles and
their ladies met at John Bray’s
beach cottage Wednesday and
ham biscuits, followed by a
spaghetti dinner, were enjoyed
by all.
ourmuom is growing in
Brunswick County with four
Temples represented at the
regular monthly meeting: Sudan,
New Bern; Oasis, Charlotte;
Acca, Virginia; and Ababia,
Houston, Texas.
Nobles present were Johnny
Vereen, Herb Nichols, Earl
Brooks, Archie Dixon, H. R.
McCorkle, D. K. Chastain, J. P.
Padgett, John Bray, Don
Willetts, each accompanied by
his wife, Woodrow Harvell and
his guest, Nell Harvell, and
Nobles Jim Hood and Noris
Long.
President Johnny Vereen
opened the meeting for business
and minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved. The
motion was reread, as required
in the bylaws, to increase club
dues to $12 annually, and will
be voted on at the next meeting.
A letter of appreciation from
Mrs. Uhrhammer was read by
secretary Herb Nichols, for the
candy Easter eggs sent the
crippled children in the hospital.
Noble John Bray introduced two
welcomed visitors, Noble
Vernon Doughty from Yaupon
Beach and Noble Red Orton
from Houston, Texas, each
accompanied by his wife. Each
was extended and invitation to
join the club.
Two main topics of discussion
were the building of a club
building and the Spring Fishing
Rodeo. Noble Archie Dixon
submitted a report from the
building committee stating, that
the complete drawings of a
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e And Tide
1?a^e was ^Pr'* 1940, and the season was spring. Bald Head
island held a strange attraction for college students, and slated for a
weekend visit was the Explorers Club of Duke University. Mrs. L. C.
rergus, wife of a Southport physician, was heading the cancer fund
campaign in Brunswick county. With a primary election coming up
there was a crisis here in Southport caused by the disappearance of
one of the registration books. To correct this situation, members of
the board of elections had ordered a new registration here.
The following Monday was set as the deadline for school children
of Brunswick county to enter the Forestry Essay Contest. B. L.
Nesmith, Jr., of Tabor City had an interesting article in the Tarheel
Banker regarding the Indian legend of how Lake Waccamaw received
its name-and we clipped it for use on our front page. An eclipse of
the sun had been visible from this area at 5 o’clock the previous
ounday afternoon; promoters of Southport sport fishing were trying
to get the President of the United States to come here for one of his
tamous fishing expeditions; and Secretary of State Thad Eure had
accepted an invitation to be commencement speaker at Southport
High School.
There was a lot of war news on the front page of The Pilot for
April 11, 1945. Lt. J. H. Garrett had written his mother. Mrs. Sallie
Garrett, a graphic account of the activities aboard his ship during the
v:“ of Luzon in the Philippines. The tank company of which U.
G. White ot Shallotte was a member had been commended for the
Played in action in Germany. A third item reported that
bgt W. W. Bradsher had met up with his brother, Sgt. Bernard
Bradsher, on the streets of an un-named German city. Both boys
were from Shallotte.
A Lions Club had been organized in Southport, with E. M.
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To Governors School
Wanda Darlene Mocre, left, a junior at Brunswick
County-Southport High School, and Martha Ellen Smith,
Right, a student at Shallotte High School, have been
selected to attend the Governor’s School of North
Carolina this summer.
Elect Officers
Of Library Group
Mrs. Henry
Is Re-elected
Mrs. A.P. Henry, Jr. of
Winnabow was re-elected
secretary-treasurer of the
Southeastern Economic
Development Commission
(SEDC) at a meeting held
Thursday in Elizabethtown.
The Commission assigned
priorities to health and
transporation as part of an
18-part general work program
for the ten-county organization
of which Brunswick is a
member.
“We want to take
L-uiiipreuensive neaim planning
as our number one project,” said
SEDC Executive Director David
Alexander shortly after members
of the commission adopted the
work projects.
A second work program in the
health development area
included promotion of controls
to end or "prevent water and air
pollution. The third workable
health program is promotion of
solid-waste disposal programs.
The five programs under the
transportation development area
included four-laning of US 401
from Fayetteville to S.C.; US 74
from the piedmont to
Wilmington; NC 24 from
Fayetteville to Jacksonville; US
17 from Washington to S.C.; and
completion of the New Hope
Dam.
During the business session of
the meeting, Mason Hicks of
Fayetteville was re-elected
vice-chairman by acclamation.
Thad Cherry of Fayetteville
was re-elected chairman of the
advisors to the commission. An
off-the-floor nomination placed
Leo Mercer, Chadboum mayor
and postmaster, a challenging
candidate for commission
secretary-treasurer. Mercer
narrowly lost in the election to
the incumbent and re-elected
secretary-treasurer.
Mrs. A. P. Henry, Jr. of
Winnabow was elected president
of the Friends of the Library at
an organizational meeting held
Sunday at the headquarters
building of the Southport
Brunswick County Library in
Southport.
Other officers chosen for the
fledgling group were Mrs.
Christine Andrews, Shallotte,
vice-president; Mrs. Viola
Thomas, Leland, secretary; and
Mrs. Catherine Skipper, Leland,
treasurer.
Mrs. Bobby Jones acted as
temporary chairman for the
meeting, which was attended by
interested persons from
throughout the county. Mrs.
Jones first introduced Mrs.
James M. Harper, Jr., Chairman
of the Library Board of
Trustees. Mrs. Harper spoke of
the potential of the Friends
Group in broadening library
service throughout the county;
in bringing library needs to the
attention of political candidates;
and in “spreading the word”
about library services to those in
their communities.
Following the election of
officers it was agreed that the
President would appoint two
persons from each township to
serve on the Friends’ Board of
Directors.
Mrs. Philip King outlined the
points to be covered in drawing
up bylaws for the new
organization. These will be
worked out by the Board of
Directors and will detail such
items as dues, if any; terms of
office; number and place of
meetings as well as stating
purposes of the group.
Mrs. Henry, newly-elected
president, said that once a new
Bookmobile was on the road the
next project would be to work
with residents of the Leland area
in an effort to establish a branch
library there. Another project of
the Friends will be to assist in
obtaining larger quarters for the
now cramped Shallotte Branch.
State Officials
Give Warning
About Island
Potential investors in the
development of Bald Head
Island have been warned by the
Governor and the director of the
State Department of
Conservation and Development
that North Carolina controls the
access to the tropical island near
Southport.
Both Gov. Bob Scott and C&D
Director Roy Sowers, Jr., made
statements Friday that “not
only could the state prevent the
construction of a bridge to the
island, but also could prevent
the construction of ferry slips.”
The warnings from the Scott
administration are the strongest
yet in the state’s attempt to
Mock the Carolina Cape Fear
Corporation from carrying out
its plan to develop the island.
The High Point-based
corporation announced last
week that it plans to purchase
the island from owner Frank
Sherrill of Charlotte, who
reportedly is asking $5.5 million
for the 12,000 acre tract that
includes approximately 9,000
acres of marshland the state
claims as its own.
ine 6cott administration has
sided with the conservationists,
opposing commercial
development of Bald Head
Island. The advocates of state
ownership do not know what
the state should do with the
island if the state owned it, but
they clearly assert that the
development of the island would
destroy marine life in the Cape
Fear River area of Brunswick
County and some claim the
development would affect the
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.Two Students
Are Accepted
Wanda Darlene Moore and
Martha Ellen Smith were among
the four hundred honor students
selected to attend the
Governor’s School of North
Carolina for five weeks this
summer.
Wanda is a junior at the
Brunswick County-Southport
High School and will study
French this summer. She is the
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Wamette and lists as her
hobbies reading and watching
television.
Martha is the daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. Joe Smith of Shallotte.
She will study English in the
area of creative writing. Martha’s
hobbies are writing, painting,
sculpture and playing the piano
and organ. She has entered
several art and writing contests.
Other students nominated to
the Governor’s School from
Brunswick county were Leslie
Zachery, Southport; Ronald
Walton, Ash; John Sheffield,
Shallotte; Seigried Sanders,
Leland; and Billy World Gilbert,
Bolivia.
Mark Sweitzen and J.W. Ingold
of the Brunswick
County-Southport High School
were nominated in the area of
the performing arts. Mark is a
guitarist and J.W. an artist.
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