The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT Most of the News A Good Newspaper In A Good Community All The Time VOLUME 41 No. 43 16-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1970 A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Vandals Damage Historic Site Sign This sign, located on N. C. 133 to direct visitors to Brunswick Town State Historic Site was recently damaged by vandals and almost destroyed by the 26 bul let holes and shotgun blasts. Several .44 Magnum cartridges were found at the seen* and the incident is under investigation by law enforcement officers. (Brunswick Town Photo) Southport Jaycee Officers These are the new officers of the Southport Jaycees, installed at their recent wmual banquet. They are, back row, left to right, Robert Howard president- Jim Kenney, secretary; Cheryl Johnson, Miss Fourth of July; Lee Aldridge director* "- ond^vif^^emPf,ey Hewett, first vice-president; Irvin®Smith, sec-' direcSr^lTb, IJJISjf’ tT*mvreI’ B»b St«l'y. a™**; Charles Trot., Record Number Of Candidates Saturday Is Date For Election When they go to the polls Saturday Brunswick county voters, both Democrat and Republican, will face multiple choices which promise to make the voting process slow and the ballot counting a chore. For instance, there are 32 names on the county ballot, including a total of eight candidates for sheriff and 14 for County Commissioner. There are _ 11 more names on the ballot for member of the Board of Education, a category in which both Democrats and Republicans are eligible to vote. Not only is the race for Board of Education a non-partisan election, but results are final. The three candidates with the highest number of votes will be elected to the board, this regardless of where they may live. No longer are board members to be elected from their own school districts, but on a county-wide basis. Three members of the present Board of Education are seeking reelection. They include Norman Bellamy, chairman, and Arthur J. Dosher and Homer Holden, members. In the field are two women, the first to seek election to this office. They are Mrs. May W. Barbee and Mrs. Helen S. Skipper, both of Southport. Two Negroes also are candidates for the Board of Education, Lewis A. Stanley of Shallotte, and Moses Clyde Herring of Lockwoods Folly. Other candidates are Donald R. White of Leland, Dr. John T. Madison of Shallotte, John R. Corbett, Sr., of Lockwoods Folly and Wilbur E. Rabon of Winnabow. On the county ticket a close race is in prospect between S. Bunn Frink and Odell Williamson for the State Senate. Each is a veteran legislator. Frink previously has served in the Senate as well as one term in the House of Representatives while Williamson’s service has been confined to duty in the House. The 15th Senatorial District, which the winner will represent, includes Brunswick, Bladen and Columbus counties. He will have no opposition in the fall. Every one of the four men in the race for the nomination for House of Representatives is a former member of that body. William J. McLamb represented Brunswick county for one term and both Clyde Collier and R. C. Soles have served one term as representative from the 13th House District, which comprises Brunswick and Columbus. Arthur W. Williamson is a veteran member of the General Assembly, and along with Soles is an incumbent. Two men will be nominated, and they will face opposition in the fall. The contest for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff has produced a hard fought campaign between a field of eight candidates which includes a woman and a Negro. Nell R. Hewett is the lady who is (Continued On Pace Seven) Sencland Community Action Hit Or Miss? A series by Ed Harper, staff writer “Neighborhood Youth Corps gives young people opportunities they did not realize they had. They have skills that can be developed, and they have something to offer the labor market. THESE people will not be on welfare rolls. ” Mrs. Helen Sanderlin, NYC Project Director Some people don’t like to be told what to do. Consider the high school dropout, untrained and with little chance of helping himself, much less others. Somehow, someone persuaded the youth that he’d be better off enrolled in the Neighborhood Youth Corps program. But the youth, burdened with a criminal record, would not listen to the advice nor instructions of his supervisor and was hurting others instead of helping himself. “We tried to solve the problem rather than remove it,’’ said Mrs. Helen Sanderlin, project director V v of Neighborhood Youth Crops. She requested the help of a Job Corps representative. “There is daily counseling and job training available at the Job Corps center,” continued Mrs. Sanderlin. “The youth realized we wanted to help him, but the special guidance that was needed was not available here. He readily agreed to enter the Job Corps.” Problems such as this are uncommon in the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) program, but the goal is constant: to motivate youth to develop their individual talents to the best advantage. THE ‘IN’S’ AND ‘OUT’S’ The NYC, sponsored by Sencland Community Action, Inc., has two components—the in-school and out-of-school programs. The in-school program is designed for disadvantaged youth who are potential dropouts and who could not continue their educations without financial help. Mrs. Sanderlin, who has been NYC project director since February, said the in-school program gives the students the opportunity to remain in school, as well as leam good work habits and gain experience that will help them later. “NYC helps in job placement after the student graduates,” said the director. “The student leams his potentials. Some students receive scholarships and (Continued On Pigi Two) i Annual Flower Show Scheduled Here Saturday The Annual Southport Flower Show will be held Saturday in the Community building with several new ideas being incorporated in the list of events this year. Entries will be accepted between 8:30 a.m. and 1 o’clock. It is unnecessary to be a member of a garden club to enter. There will also be a section for Juniors interested in flower arranging, bird houses, litter posters, etc. Schedule was published in last Thursday State Port Pilot. The show will be open to the public form 3 o’clock to 7:30 pan. Take out lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 o’clock. Following is list of categories: Ciyic development and prefects—ideas and suggestions for improvement and beautification, improving the streets, yards, buildings, parks, and entrances to town. Garden therapy—ideas to make life more interesting and hopeful for the shut-in, dish gardens, bedside trays, planters, indoor gardens to watch grow. An ti-litterbug—posters, litter bags, small signs, new ideas. Winning contest poems to be exhibited. Birds, our mosquito and other insect controllers—bird houses, (Continued On Page Seven) Small Loans Get Financing Parks C. Fields, County Supervisor of the Farmers Home Administration in Shallotte, has been informed by James T. Johnson, State Director, that the agency’s small loan program has been refunded for this fiscal year. This small loan program is available to provide the capital for rural residents who need to increase their incomes. Rural areas as administered by this program include towns of 5,500 population or less and open country. These loans permit Fanners Home Administration to purchase small parcels of land for farmers who are not eligible for such assistance under its regular Farm Ownership loan program, refinance real estate debts, or combine basic real estate developments and machinery and equipment purchases through a single loan tailored to the needs of small farmers with limited resources. These loans permit Farmers Home Administration to provide credit to individuals to start or continue a small rural business or trade. Among the major types of non-farm enterprises that may be financed are farm machinery repair shops, watch repair shops, beauty shops, carpentry shops, plumbing and barber shops. Funds under this program can (Oonttamd On Pag* Poor) Vascar Will Be Used In City Southport Chief of Police Walton Willis said Tuesday that Visual Average Speed Computer and Recorder equipment has been acquired for use in Southport. In abbreviated English that is VASCAR, and that is a word which stands for enforcement of speed laws through the methods described in the full title. Use of the equipment requires special training, which Chief Willis already has had. It includes classroom work as well as field application of this information. Policeman C. D. Thomas now is taking this special course. Acquisition of this equipment was made possible under provisions of the Governor’s Highway Safety Patrol through a 100-percent grant. Chief Willis reminds motorists that there are four speed zones in Southport, 45-mph, 35-mph, 25-mph and 20-mph. “I think it will be wise for them to become familiar with these zones,” he said, “and to plan to observe these regulations”. Repairing Bridge A Brunswick Town This Fort Anderson footbridge at Brunswick Town State Historic Site is undergoing extensive repairs. The 100-ft. structure, which is almost 25 feet above the ground in the center, connects one of the large buffer mounds with the mounqs of Battery “A”. Resting benches will be constructed in the center section, which, is 12-feet wide and 20-feet long. Shown here is Robert Johnson of the main tenance staff using a block and fall to raise the heavy cypress decking in the cen ter section. (Brunswick Town Photo) Bids Exceed Estimates Receive Bids On Schools Bids totalling almost $4 million dollars for the construction of three consolidated high schools in Brunswick County were opened Tuesday. ' { li The individual low bids for the schools totalled $3,932,832.24. This exceeds the available funds provided by a $2,585,000 bond issue approved last year, $506,000 in the school fund Award Contract Or Sunny Point Work D. R. Allen and Sons of Fayetteville submitted a bid of $212,713.45, the apparent low on construction of a 20-trailer capacity, earth-barricaded receiving yard and an 80-trailer capacity earth-barricaded holding yard at Sunny Point Army Terminal near Southport. The Engineers had estimated the cost at $251,861.50. This included the base bid plus additives. Second low bidder was S. E. Cooper Co. of Wilmington, who offered $243,766.80. The other three bidders and their bids include Lincoln Construction Co. of Wilmington, $249,893.59; Mack Construction Co. of Shallotte, $274,092.10; and East Shore Construction Co. of Stuart, Fla., $341,113.30. The job calls for placement of approximately 20,000 square yards of bituminous pavement with a thickness of l-'A inches; approximately 300 to 400 lineal feet of 18-inch storm drainage line; 14 acres of site preparation; and 100,000 cubic yards of excavation. All work is to be completed within 210 calendar days. e And Tide The front page of The PUot for April 27, 1960, had a strong political flavor, for not only was there a picture of Register of Deeds Durwood Clark,' then seeking the Democratic nomination for this office, but a photo and story as well of Dr. I. Beverly Lake, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor. Lt. James Varnum and his wife, Emily, a Brunswick County couple, had been featured in a double-page spread in Look Magazine; Mark Hewett had pitched a no-hit victory for Shallotte High School over Elizabethtown; and spelling bees were being held in the elementary schools of Brunswick County. Robin Green and Susan Harrelson, students at Southport High School, were going to the Governor’s School for summer study, and there was a front page photo showing them being congratulated by Principal L. R. Biggerstaff. That was in our edition dated April 28, 1965. A group of Southport students were rehearsing Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”; Watt Huntley, former Mayor Pro-Tern at Ocean Isle Beach, had been made publicity director for CP&L in Raleigh; and we carried a full-page feature regarding the eight candidates seeking three posts as members of the Southport Board of Aldermen. The occasion is something special. This week Time and Tide brings to mind the first issue of the State Port Pilot published by the current publisher—exactly thirty-five years ago. The issue is that of (Ooaamta on rm non * account and $165,000 awarded by an insurance company for the Southport High School that burned last year. There were 39 firms submitting bids for the construction job. Board of Education Chairman Norman Bellamy said he was I pleased with the interest shown L in the construction by the bidders. He added that the bids will be analyzed before they are awarded within the next 30 days. Superintendent of county schools Ralph King, who opened the bids in the Southport Brunswick County High School gymtorium here, said that “it is a pleasure to see so many interested people bidding on these projects and to see so many interested in getting school facilities that will mean so much to Brunswick County.” Approximately 40 persons gathered for the bid openings. The bids were received for the construction of individual schools, combinations of two schools and all three schools. Schools serving the Northern and Southern School Districts will have 81,813 square feet while the Western School will have 91,675 square feet. For the Northern high school near Leland, an apparent low general construction bid of $816,886 was submitted by C. T. Wilson Construction Co. of Durham. J. W. Cook and Sons, Inc., of Whiteville, submitted the low general construction bid of $876,000 on the Southern District school and also submitted the low construction bid of $912,000 for the Western District school. Dixie General Contractors of Wallace submitted a low bid of $1,747,500 to build both the Northern and Southern schools. Trogdon submitted the apparent low bid of $1,755,500 for construction of the Northern and Western schools. Cook submitted a low bid of $1,768,000 for construction of the Southern and Western Schools. Trogdon submitted the lowest overall bid for (Oonttnuad Ob Plfl roar) •■1 State Winner In Suit Over Salt Marshes Judge Walter J. Bone set aside the verdict of a Brunswick county jury in favor of the plaintiff in the suit of Joe Brooks vs the State of North Carolina here Tuesday, thus giving the state title to about 400-acres of marshland that has been in litigation of many months. Notice of appeal was given. The case had been remanded from the State Supreme Court to the Brunswick County Superior Court. The Wilmington firm of Rountree and Clark represented the state in the action here. Judge Bone declared the jury verdict which favored the Brooks’ interests was contrary to the evidence and set it aside. The case began in Brunswick County Superior Court and was appealed by the state to the court of appeals. Both courts upheld Brooks. The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court which overturned part of the previous decision and remanded this, the question of ownership back to Superior Court. Under the current decision, (Continued On Page Seven) Annual Fashion Show Is Success Thursday evening was an important night for Brunswick County’s 4-H seamstresses, the occasion was their Annual 4-H Dress Revue. 4-H girls modeled the garments they made themselves before an audience of parents and friends at the Extension Office Building in Supply. Debby Ann McKeithan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vinson McKeithan of Bolivia, won the pre-teen division with her dress of aqua dacron and cotton dotted Swiss. The A-line sleeveless dress was trimmed with a row of white daisies on the front. Winner of the eariy-teen division was Lisa Hewett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Hewett of Supply. Lisa looked very attractive in her bright orange 100 percent cotton A-line dress with short ragan sleeves, accented with three white buttons at the neckline. Sue Clemmons, the top entrant in the senior teen division, modeled her dress of green and orange multi-colored print. The puffed long sleeve A-line dress • featured a rolled collar and was accessorized with a white long length vest. Sue is the daughter of Mr.and Mrs. W. A. Clemmons of Bolivia. Sue and Lisa will represent Brunswick County at the District Dress Revue during the Southeastern District Day event to be held in June. All three girls will represent Brunswick county in the Star-News 4-H Honor Program in November. They will each make a new garment for this event. Tide Table Following Is the tide table tor Southport teh| (he weak. These hoars are ap proximately eoneet ail were (uihM The State Fort Pilot throagh the eourtesy of the Chpe Fear Pilot's h—nelatlna Thursday, April 30, 3:03 a.m. 9:34 a.m. 3:33 p.m. 9:58 pan. Friday, May 1, 4:03 a.m. 10:28 a.m. 4:33 p.m. 11:04 pan. Saturday, May 2, 5:03 ajn. 11:22 a.m. 5:27 p.m. 11:58 pun. Sunday, May 3, 5:51a.m. 12:10 ajn. 6:21 p.m. Monday, May 4, 6:45 a.m. 0:52 a.m. 7:09 p.m. 12:58 pjn. Tuesday, May 5, d 7:33 a.m. 1:40 ajn, 7:57 p.m. 1:40 Wednesday, May 6 8:15 ajn. 8:39 p.m.

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