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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AiPRE 22, 1970
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Move Into New Building
18 ^e.ne^home of Purity Swings and Loan Association in Shallotte
tWtGn °n Main Street in the business district. Business will be conducted from
£ter! (Beat»napiSto)beginnmg Fnday’ Plans for a grand °Pening will be announced
County Board
Talks About
Legal Action
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met in special
session on Thursday night.
After hearing Mrs. Frances B.
Stone, ESEA Director, present
Brunswick County ESEA
Summer Program “Summer
Reading 1970 Enrichment and
Enjoyment”, the board
approved the program as
presented.
An interim teaching contract
for James E. Hargrove at Union
was approved.
The board approved the
1970-71 Driver Training and
Safety Education Program for
Brunswick County Schools.
The board along with its
attorney, Kirby Sullivan,
discussed all phases of pending
legal action being directed
against them by signatory parties
from Bolivia School District and
their attorney, George Rountree,
of Wilmington.
These men met today
(Wednesday) in Shallotte to
review information contained in
minutes from prior board
meeting with Roundtree and his
clients.
Meanwhile, Attorney Sullivan
has instituted legal action aimed
at having the pending suit
regarding location of the
Southern Area School returned
to Brunswick county for trial.
Library Study
For Teacher
Mrs. Hilda W. Townsend of
Wilmington has been selected as
the recipient of a $500
scholarship awarded by the
North Carolina Association of
School Librarians.
Mrs. Townsend, a native of
Columbus county and the
mother of two daughters, is a
teacher-librarian in Leland High
School. She received her A.B.
degree at Meredith College,
Raleigh, and has done graduate
work at East Carolina
University. Mrs. Townsend plans
to use the scholarship for
graduate work in library science
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sencland
Community
Action
Ditch Digger
One of the major construction projects in Southport
right now—and there are several—is the installation
of a storm sewer near the watertank. The above photo
shows a workman laying drain pipe in front of Oliver’s
Grill on Howe St. (Photo by Spencer).
Food Stamps Help
County’s Economy
Food stamps brought $21,505
of federal money into 349
Brunswick County households
during March and boosted farm
and grocer income, but sponsors
of the program are looking to
taxpayers for help in finding
irregular, illegal practices of
participating merchants.
According to Mrs. Gerald
Dowdy, officer-in-charge of the
Wilmington Field Office of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Food and Nutrition Service,
“the taxpayers are paying for
the bonus food stamps and we
expect to see that they are used
property.”
Mrs. Dowdy reported that
$29,860 worth of food stamps
were issued in Brunswick
County last month, although
program participants paid just
$8,355. This represents a bonus
to the county of $21,505, she
said.
The Food Stamp Program in
New Hanover, Bladen,
Brunswick, Columbus and
Robeson counties now involves
more than 5,000 households.
Value of the coupons bought by
these low-income families is
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Hit Or Miss?
A series by Ed Harper, staff writer
'Sencland has been involved in many programs during the past
several years that are not specifically related to public education, but
of all the programs with which the agency has been associated, the
most favored and highly received is Headstart.”
C. W. Du veins
Headstart children visit
airports and train stations, the
gateways to places their parents
cannot afford to go, and the lake
or ocean few of them have ever
seen. They visit banks where
their families have no money,
and learn that black and white
are water colors and not social
barriers.
Designed primarily for
impoverished children, Headstart
is a development program for
youngsters who will enter school
in the fall. Sencland Community
Action, Inc., receives the federal
funds for the program, but
!
administration is by the four
school systems in the
three-county area the agency
serves: the Columbus, Bladen
and Brunswick county units and
the Whiteville city system. The
anti-poverty agency oversees the
program, assuring that the
federal government-school unit
contract is fulfilled.
“VALUABLE” PROGRAM
Although Health, Education
and Welfare guidelines state that
this summer’s Headstart program
should involve only poverty-level
children, youngsters of higher
economic levels have been a part
of the six-week summer
development program for the
past several years. C.W. Duggins,
the superintendent of the
Whiteville school system and
president of Sencland’s board of
directors, believes that including
some of the more privileged J
children helps the program. ,
The superintendent described ,
Headstart as “valuable,” and said ,
the teachers and principals in the !
school system also consider the
program beneficial. .
“Headstart provides a |
meaningful experience for ,
children who have a limited (
environment,” Duggins stated.
Before the Headstart program ,
was begun in 1966, it took j
awhile for children attending ,
school for the first time to j
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Lennon Urges
Additional Aid
For Fishermen
Congressman Alton Lennor
has called for substantial])
increased support for Americar
fishermen. In strongly wordec
testimony before the Interioi
Subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee
Lennon emphasized the critical
need for improvement in the
fishing industries, and criticized
cuts in the proposed fiscal yeai
1971 budget for fisheries
research, fishing vessel loan, and
fishing vessel construction
subsidy programs.
In his testimony, Lennon
stated: “I believe that the future
of the American fisherman is in
the balance. Wc ^ust oe willing
to put what amount-; to a
modest portion of ine sums we
are already spending for
technological development in
other areas into fisheries
research. If we don’t, the United
States will never be able to take
its rightful place among the great
fishing nations of the world.”
The Congressman pointed out
that although the U.S. ranks
fifth among the fishing nations
in terms of production, more
than two-thirds of the fish
consumed in the United States is
imported. i
Lennon pressed the
Subcommittee for increased
appropriations to assist
fishermen, through loans, to
replace overaged vessels and
worn-out gear. He also asked for
maximum support for the
fishing vessel subsidy program
considered essential the
existence of the fleet.
In presenting his requests, the
Congressman emphasized that
these programs are investments
in the future that will produce
substantial returns to the nation
through the development of a
newer, mom efficient fishing
effort. He urged that all cuts in
the budget for fisheries research,
both commercial and sport, be
restored, and asked that the
marine game fish research
program be funded at the full
level authorized by law.
Alton Lennon is chairman of
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Aaron Johnson
Local Speaker
Aaron Johnson, Human
Relations Specialist for the State
Good Neighbor Council, was the
speaker Friday night at the
NAACP benefit banquet held at
the cafeteria of the Brunswick
County-Southport High School.
Mrs. Mattie W. Hewett,
chairman of the Freedom Fund’
Committee, presided. Following
her opening remarks, the
invocation was said by the Rev.
Moses Herring, who later closed
the meeting with the
benediction.
The welcome was extended by
Mrs. Mary S. Gore and the
speaker was introduced by
Eugene Gore, president of the
Southport-Brunswick County
Chapter of NAACP. At the
conclusion of the talk by Mr.
Johnson, a response was made
by Orree Gore.
In his remarks, Mr. Johnson
characterized the NAACP as
“the No. 1 organization in
America Fighting for freedom”
and called the Southport branch
me of the oldest and most loyal
chapters of the state
arganization.
“Men may not get all they pay
’or, but in the end they pay for
ill they get,” said the speaker,
le classified the Negro race as
he oldest ethnic group in the
Jnited States, save for the
ndians, and protested the fact
hat the contributions made by
he black citizens of this country
iave not been included in
istory books.
He said that “Freedom and
ustice for all is what the black
evolution is all about” and
expressed the hope that peaceful
olutions may be found to
iroblems on all fronts.
A representative of the junior
;roup of the organization
iresented gifts to Nelson Adams,
r., Mrs. Hewett and to Mrs.
lore.
Several candidates for public
iffice were in the audience, and
t the conclusion of Mr.
ohnson’s talk, each was
ntroduced and was given an
>pportunity to speak briefly.
Work On Taylor Field
o *■ 'Ej6 SfUtl^rt Jaycees 311(1 Carolina Power and Light Company joined forces
RoSrtmDlovell ^ Tay}OT Pield under the supervision of Brown and
Vr p ^ Jayce!? ^ove dumP trucks loaned by Blake Builders Supply
jEl ^H^^^S. Bobby Willis, Board of Education and the City of South
H* ^ ^‘T11 from the CP&L construction site and mov
ed to the Athletic field where the dirt was spread and leveled by a motor grader
Cf?panyJ°ok care of the fuel expenses involved to
T^, T£gnio Woiik resun^ °1 Tuesday with more dirt moving and leveling.
In the near future, plans call for the grassing of this area. (Photo by Spencer)
Missionary To
Speak Before
Baptist Women
For bathing in rural areas of
the Philippines, the proper
accessory is not a shower cap or
terry cloth robe, but a
patadyong. “A patadyong”, says
Miss Faye Tunmire, Southern
Baptist missionary, is a hoop of
cloth which is pulled up tight
Under the arms and tucked in at
the top to keep it up.” This
garment is necessary because a
stream serves as a bathtub.
Miss Tunmire learned how to
bathe in a patadyong, as well as
how to sleep on a hard bed of
split bamboo and live on a diet
consisting mainly of rice and
dried fish, while spending 10
weeks in a rural Filipino home in
1962. This, she says, was the
“graduate” course for a year’s
study of the Ilonggo dialect.
“The people were wonderful to
me and were just overjoyed that
I wanted to learn and would go
out and live with them,” she
says.
A missionary to the
Philippines since 1956, and a
native of Granite Falls, Miss
Tunmire now lives at Southern
Baptist College at Mland,
Cotabato Province, on the island
of Mindanao, where she directs
religious activities and serves as
advisor to Woman’s Missionary
Union of the island. She is in the
States now on leave but is
preparing to return to the
Philippines in early May. She
will be the feature speaker,
telling of her work in the
Philippines, at the 68th Annual
Session of Woman’s Missionary
Union (WMU) of the Brunswick
Baptist Association, at the Old
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Scott: State Has
Money For Island
EDNA M. GAUSE
Mrs. Gause Is
Assigned Duty
The Executive Board of the
North Carolina Library
Association recently appointed
Mrs. Edna M. Gause to serve on
the North Carolina Periodicals
Bibliography and Union List
Committee for the next
biennium. Mrs. Gause is the
Library Supervisor for
Brunswick County Schools
under the ESEA program, Title
Briefly, she is responsible in
the county system for
coordinating the library
program, seeing that every
school provides a basic program
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e And Tide
One of our all-time favorite pictures was on the front page of The
Pilot for Wednesday, April 17, 1940. The subject was a boy and his
horse, and they were Brother Christian and Cherry McDonald, and
together they had won first place in the local five-gaited class at the
Cape Fear Horse Show. A report from the grand jury indicated a
concern with school bus transportation, for members of that body
were asking for better buses. A Greensboro sport fisherman was
coming here on a fishing expedition and was bringing along his own
supply of homing pigeons, which were to be used to carry daily
reports of his trip.
The late F.D.R. also figured in the local fishing news, this time for
a trip he was not going to make. One North Carolina senator was
writing to explain that every reasonable effort had been made to
have President Roosevelt visit the coast of Brunswick, but this
section had lost out. Frank Sherrill, owner of the S & W Cafeterias
and also of Bald Head Island, had purchased a 78-foot yacht, which
local Chamber of Commerce representatives hoped would be based
at Southport—Deanna Durbin—remember her?—had matured to the
point where she was playing the lead in “First Love”; the red tulips
in the Cranmer front yard had come in for special attention; and a
Southport boy, Franklin Potter, had joined the Navy.
The front page of Wednesday, April 18, 1945, left no doubt that
the war was on and we were in it. There was another battle report
from Lt. J. H. Garrett, this one covering his participation in the
invasion of Iwo Jima Lt. Preston Bryant, whose picture was on the
front page, was the new commanding officer of a Navy cargo ship.
And twenty-five men had been called up^by the Selective Service
Board.
News from the Brunswick County Ration Board was that there
would be some canning sugar available, but that applicants would be
required to appear in person to claim their credentials of purchase.
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The Bald Head Island
development-conservation
controversy is not finished yet.
Most observers expected the
furor to end after Gov. Bob
Scott’s Thursday announcement
that the Nature Conservancy, a
private, non-profit organization,
had promised the state it would
purchase the island near
Southport at Frank Sherill’s
reported $5.5 million asking
price and hold it for the state.
But William R. Henderson,
president of the Carolina Cape
Fear Corporation said Monday
his firm already has the money
with which to buy the island and
intended to exercise the option
it holds for the purchase.
So the battle is back where it
was earlier: the private developer
versus the state; development
against conservation.
The state claims it can hinder
the island’s development by
disallowing the construction of a
bridge or ferry slips, while the
prospective developers contend
the government has no right to
restrict such access to the private
property.
The Bald Head controversy
became a statewide subject last
summer when Charles Fraser,
the developer of the Hilton Head
COonttmad Da Fata Foot)
Judging Team
Places Third
The Brunswick County 4-H
Livestock Judging Team traveled
to Durham last Friday to
participate in their second '
Livestock Judging Contest. And
placed third with 22 teams
participating in the contest.
Leading the team in scoring was
Sammy Bellamy with 253 points
out of a possible 300. Sammy
was the third highest scorer in
the contest. He also received the
highest scores on giving reasons
in the contest.
Roy Hewett was second in
scoring on the team with 213
points. Dean Hewett followed
with 212 and Kenny Bellamy
was alternate with 210.
Earlier, the team placed 6th in
a contest in Kinston. Kenneth
Hewett paced the team in that
contest as he scored 247 points
and was second high individual
in the contest.
The team is now preparing for
the contest next month at the
Southeastern Market Show in
Whiteville.
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CORN MEETING
John Glover, Extension
Agricultural Engineering
Specialist from NCSU, wiU be in
the county on Monday to
present a program on Corn
Storage and Drying Facilities.
The meeting will be in the
Extension Service Building in
Supply and will begin at 8:30
p.m.
New York Trip
Seeks Easing .
Of Bond Kate B
Six officials representing
Brunswick county were in New
York City Monday and Tuesday
presenting a financial picture of
the county to several credit
investment agencies.
The delegation included
County Attorney E.J. Prevatte,
County Commissioner V.A.
Creech, Jr., Southport City
Manager C.D. Pickerrell,
Waccamaw Bank Vice-President
Lester V. Lowe, Atlantic
Telephone Membership
Corporation Vice-President
Foster Mintz and Resources
Development Commission
Director Jackie H. Stephenson.
The group met with officials
of three agencies in New York
Moody Investors Service, Inc.,
Standard and Poor’s
Corporation, and Dun and
Bradstreet, Inc. The purpose of
the meetings was to discuss the
financial outlook of Brunswick
county in preparation for the
sale of bonds within the near
future to finance the
construction of three new
consolidated schools. These *
investment rating agencies will
evaluate the credit ability of
Brunswick county and will apply
a credit rating, available to all
potential investors who might
consider buying the Brunswick
County School Bonds. The last
such rating was applied to the
County in 1963, and has not
since been revised. The sole
purpose of the New York
expedition was to bring the
picture of Brunswick county
up-to-date and to elevate its
credit rating.
A detailed study wa$
completed recently bjf
Stephenson, and copies were'
mailed to each of the credit
rating agencies. This week’s
meeting was then scheduled to eyas'(
permit a discussion session in \ ,
which all facets of Brunswick
county economy could be
reviewed. Past, current and
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New Numbers 5
For Southport
Some telephone numbers in 5
Southport will be changed by
Southern Bell in conjunction
with the delivery of the new
Southport directory in June.
R.E. Nantz, manager for
Southern Bell, said, “Letters
have been mailed to each
individual subscriber whose
number will be changed.” New
directory assistance files have
been prepared so there will be a
minimum of inconvenience to
persons receiving telephone calls.
Modernization of the
switching equipment in the
Southport exchange has made it
necessary to change some
numbers. Service should be
improved in that each subscriber,
will hear tess rings than under;
the old system. At the most, he;
will hear one ring other than his.
nwn. Better intercept and:
operator services can be
}rovided using the new;
jquipment. J
Tide Table
■
Following la the tide table
tor Southport daring tfae
week. Theee boon am ap
proximately correct and
were famished The State
Port Pilot through the
ooorteay of the Cape Fear
Pilot's Association.
Thursday, April 23,
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Friday, April 24,
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Saturday, April 25,
10:15 a.m. 4:40 a.m.
10:51p.m. 4:34 p.m.
Sunday, April 26,
11:09 a.m. 5:34 a.m.
11:51p.m. 5:28 pjn.
Monday, April 27,
12:15 a.m. 6:34 a.m.
6:34 p.m.
Tuesday, April 28,
12:57 a.m. 7:34 ajn.
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Wednesday, April 29,
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