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Brunswick County
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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VOLUME 41 No. 43
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1970
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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. '
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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4:33 p.m. 11:04 pan.
Saturday, May 2,
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5:27 p.m. 11:58 pun.
Sunday, May 3,
5:51a.m. 12:10 ajn.
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Monday, May 4,
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Wednesday, May 6
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