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VOLUME 41 No. 44
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1970
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Pouring Concrete At CP&L Plant
Hus was the scene at the CP&L nuclear power
plant site near Southport Tuesday as the first con
crete was poured for the 15-story structure that will
house the electric generating equipment. Five stories
of this hiulding will be underground. Some idea of
the depth of the excavation can be gained from not
ing the comparative size of men and trucks and other
equipment. Brown & Root Construction is building
the plant. (Photo by Spencer)
Board Of Education
Three Board Members Resign
Three members of the
Brunswick County Board of
Education have resigned and at
least two of these vacancies are
expected to be filled at a call
meeting tonight (Wednesday) by
the appointment of two persons
who were elected to membership
on the board in Saturday’s
voting.
Resigning were Chairman
Norman Bellamy, who
recommended that the board
appoint Dr. John Madison to
take his place; and Arthur J.
Dosher. It is thought that Mrs.
Mae Barbee, who was one of the
three successful candidates for
the Board of Education in
Saturday’s voting, will be named
to fill this vacancy.
A third vacancy was created
when Delmas Babson, whose
term as a member of the board
had three more years to run,
resigned. He represents
Waccamaw School District, from
which there was no candidate in
Saturday’s election, and it is not
known who will be named to fill
his vacancy.
With the resignation of
Chairman Bellamy, Homer
Holden, who was vice-chairman,
Sencland
Community
Action
This is the final installment of
an 11-part series about the
anti-poverty agency that serves
Columbus, Bladen and
Brunswick counties.
The agency is a tool used by
politicians in Washington;
money provided for the poor is
wasted, except for the dollars
paid to employees; the board of
directors is disorganized and
uncooperative; and the effort to
fight a war on poverty in
Columbus, Bladen and
Brunswick counties lacks
strength.
These are some of the
criticisms directed towards the
three-county Sencland
Community Action, Inc.,
program that was established in
1966. Is the agency as bad as
MRS. BARBEE
assumed the chairmanship. There
was some speculation that he,
too, may resign since he was the
third member of the old board
who failed Saturday in their bid
for reelection.
Normally, the three persons
elected Saturday, W. E. Rabon,
Dr. Madison and Mrs. Barbee,
would not be sworn in until next
April. It is provided by law that
vacancies on the board are to be
filled by appointment of
remaining board members.
The letters of resignation from
Dosher and Banson were brief
and to the point, but Chairman
Bellamy wrote a lengthy letter
which reflects some of the worry
and problems that have beset
him and his fellow board
members during the past few
months. Following is the text of
his letter:
“It is with deep regret and
DR. MADISON
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Hit Or Miss?
A series by Ed Harper, staff writer
these statements suggest?
Probably not. But neither is it
as successful as some supporters
claim it is.
The merits and demerits of the
organization must be weighed by
a public that is mostly
uninformed, misinformed or
does not care one way or the
other. This “lack of
communication” is something
that has bothered the program
more than anything else in these
three counties.
The sponsoring Office of
Economic Opportunity
conducted a research of the
agency’s operation last year, the
result of which causes one to
wonder how an organization
with so many ills held together
as long as it had. The analysis
charged waste of money,
r
employees and time during the
first years of the agency’s
operation.
The money given to the
agency has been reduced, so has
the number of employees, and
some programs have been
emphasized while others no
longer exist.
GETTING BETTER
Within the last year there has
been a marked improvement in
the operation of the agency.
Certainly, some of the critics
who believe the program is a
“miss” would concede that the
' agency is not missing as far as it
was before.
On the other hand, some of
the most capable men who
worked for the agency have
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with sincerity of the heart that I
have to turn in my resignation
from the Board of Education of
Brunswick County. I have served
over three years of my four year
term on the Board. It has been a
pleasure serving with all of you.
“I came on the board with
great determination of
up-grading our school system
from the teacher to the child.
With this in mind I tried to do
something about it.
“First by helping, developing
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Primary Election
Woman Wins, Negro Leads In Vote
Begin Study
Of Erosion In
Coastal Area
Col. Paul S. Denison, District
Engineer for the Army Corps of
Engineers, Wilmington District,
has announced the start of an
appraisal of erosion problems
along the Atlantic. The appraisal
will also outline possible
remedial measures.
The study was authorized by
Congress in the Rivers and
Harbors Act of 1968, but funds
to conduct the appraisal were
not provided by the Congress
until the 1970 appropriations
were recently approved. The
amount of $150,000 was
appropriated for this appraisal
which will have no effect on
planning or building shore
projects under other existing
authority.
Public agencies at all levels are
being consulted and interested
groups or individuals are urged
to bring facts, cases, and views
to the attention of the
Wilmington District, Corps of
Engineers, Wilmington.
The study will focus on
shore-erosion problem situations
but possible remedial measures
will be appraised in the context
of alternative land and water
uses and the total natural
environment. Specific projects
or construction will not be
recommended in the study
report.
The study being conducted by
the Wilmington District is a
small part of the total
investigation which includes the
entire coastline of the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of
Mexico, the Great Lakes, Puerto
Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Upon completion of the
investigation, and after
comments of the states and
other Federal agencies have been
obtained, a report summarizing
the findings will be submitted to
Congress in the summer of 1971.
The South Atlantic Division
at Atlanta is responsible for
making an inventory of
shorelines in the Southeast and
publication of Regional
Inventory Reports showing the
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Flower Show Is
Held Saturday
Mrs. Georgina Pate was
Tri-Color winner at the
Southport Flower Show held
Saturday in the Community
Building. The general chairman
for this event this year was Mrs.
Davis C. Herring.
The Sweepstakes winner was
Mrs. E. C. Blake, with Mrs. Pate
second. Third place winner was
Mrs. Bobby Jones, fourth Mrs. J.
E. Dodson and fifth Mrs. Dan
Harrelson.
following is a list oi winners:
Shadow Boxes, “Through the
Years”: First Grandchild, Mrs.
Leila Pigott, blue. Birth, Mrs.
Sue Jones, red; Graduation, Mrs.
Doris Harrelson, white; Golden
Anniversay, Mrs. Georginia Pate,
yellow.
Dining Room: Mrs. Alice St.
George, blue; Mrs. Judy
Babbington, red; Mrs. Dorothy
Hardee, yellow; Mrs. Leila
Pigott, white.
Living Room: Mrs. Dorothy
Gilbert, blue; Mrs. Leila Pigott,
red, Mrs. Dorothy Hardee,
yellow; Mrs. Elizabeth
Harrelson, white.
“Anything Goes”: Mrs. Sue
Jones, blue; Mrs. Doris
Harrelson, red.
Birds and Insect Control: Mrs.
Gertrude Blake, blue (2); Charles
Borea, blue; Mrs. Ruby Swain,
blue.
Garden Therapy: Mrs. Josie
Smith, blue; Mrs. Jinx Rideout,
red; Mrs. Gay Ormily, yellow.
Oriental: Mary Evelyn
Appling, blue; Mrs. Sue Jones,
red; Mrs. Gertrude Blake,
yellow; Mrs. Leila Pigott, white.
Seashore: Mrs. Josie
McDougle, blue; Mrs. Leila
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FRANKLIN RANDOLPH
C. E. BELLAMY
Governor Comes
Up With New Plan
Gov. Bob Scott has outlined a
proposal for a non-profit
foundation headed by former
Governor Luther Hodges to
acquire Bald Head Island and use
it as a laboratory for marine
research and education
programs.
In a prepared speech released
Two Brunswick
Girls Chosen
Susan Usher, daughter of Mrs.
Ruby Usher of Shallotte and a
junior at Shallotte High School,
has been accepted to study
under a National Science
Foundation Award at the
University of North Carolina this
summer.
This program is one of
approximately 150 in the U.S.
planned to provide opportunities
for more than 4,100
academically outstanding
secondary school students to
obtain intensive experience in
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SUSAN USHER
e And Tide
May 1,1935, and the second issue of The Pilot under our direction
was off the press. There was sensational news of the capture in
South Carolina of a Wilmington man wanted for the hit-and-run
death of a child at Supply. The man responsible for the action was a
fearless storekeeper of that community named Harry Robinson and
his account of his chase across the" State line was breathtaking and
hair raising. A Brunswick County High School Field Day had been
held in Southport, and Shallotte came off the winner. Notable
among the contestants were Harry L. Mintz, Jr., of Shallotte, who
had taken first place in the declamation contest, followed by
Edward B. Taylor of Southport.
John D. Eriksen had been nominated for Mayor of Southport;
preparations were being made to entertain representatives of the
Eastern North Carolina Hospital Association at Southport; and a
new passenger bus with a custom body had been placed on the
Wilmington-Southport run.
Five years later a front page story told that Dr. Landis G. Brown
would move here from Clinton to do general practice of medicine
and surgery’. Plans were being worked out for the dredging of a yacht
basin at Southport, with necessary easements being obtained prior to
beginning dredging operations. Gwendolyn Krahnke of Leland was
the winner in the forestry essay contest among high school students
and Annie Lee Evans was the winner for elementary school
contestants. Each received a cash prize of $15. The Annual
Southport Woman’s Club Flower Show was slated for the following
Friday.
Fishermen were receiving a rare break with the appearance of roe
spots along the coast of Brunswick; Maxie Cooker had reported
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in Raleigh on Friday, Scott
suggested that the foundation be
similar to the Research Triangle
Foundation, that is located in
the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill
area. “It would be removed from
the political arena and would
not be under state control,”
Scott said.
He proposed that the owners
be the North Carolina schools,
colleges, and universities engaged
in oceanographic studies in
marine and biological sciences.
Any profits, he said, would be
for the benefit of the
institutions involved in the
programs.
Also on Friday, the Carolina
Cape Fear Corporation, a private
enterprise that wants the island
for development, announced
that a compromise could be
agreed upon that would allow
for private development as well
as the research proposed by
Scott.
Later in the week, Scott said
he would not rule-out the
possibility of a compromise.
Following is the text of Scott’s
speech:
Last September at your
meeting in Kinston, 1 first spoke
on a subject that since has come
to be very prominent in the
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Summer School
For Zachary
Leslie Beth Zachary, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Zachary
and a junior at Brunswick
County Southport High School,
has been notified that she has
been added to the list of those
accepted to attend the 1970
Governor’s School of North
Carolina.
Leslie is an honor student at
the local high school and holds
membership in the National
Honor Society, Dramatics Club,
Student Council and is secretary
of her class. Miss Zachary also
writes a weekly column for the
State Port Pilot under the
heading “The Leopard Spots.”
Leslie will study in the field of
Natural Science. It is hoped that
this experience will be helpful in
preparing for a career in
psychology.
LESLIE ZACHARY
Mrs. Mae W. Barbee became
the first woman ever elected as a
member of the Brunswick
County Board of Education and
Franklin Randolph led the vote
in the eight-place race for the
Democratic nomination for
sheriff in Saturday’s voting,
which brought out a record
number of voters for a spring
election.
Among other noteworthy
results was the one-sided vote
for S.B. Frink over Odell
Williamson in their home
county, resulting in a
district-wide victory for Frink.
Jack Brown was an easy winner
of the nomination for Clerk of
Court as was Lowell Bennett for
Coroner.
The ousting of the three
members of the Board of
Education seeking re-election
also was big news, for in
addition to Mrs. Barbee, W.E.
Rabon and Dr. John Madison
were elected. They replace
Chairman Norman Bellamy,
Arthur Dosher and Homer
Holden.
Congressman Alton Lennon
trailed Charles Rose in
Brunswick county voting, but
piled up a commanding lead in
other counties except
Cumberland and easily won
renomination.
The Republicans also
participated in Primary Election
voting, naming their slate of
officers for County
Commisssioner, for Sheriff and
for 7th District Congressman.
In Brunswick county voting W.
J. McLamb was high in the race
for nomination to the House of
Representatives with 2860, but
he wound up third in the district
as the two top places went to
Arthur Williamson and R.. C. '
Soles. In Brunswick Williamson
received 1406 votes, Soles 2564
and Clyde Collier, the fourth
candidate, 1197.
The vote for Frink in
Brunswick was 3575 to 1452 for
Williamson.
In the race for sheriff Franklin
Randolph was high man with
1314, followed by Clinton
Bellamy, with 1019. Bellamy
said this (Wednesday) morning
that he will call for a second
primary. Other totals in this race
between a field of eight were D.
E. Tripp 888, Clemit Holden
661, Drew Long 514, Milton
Bowen 365, Elbert C. Rogers
168 and Nell R. Hewett 160.
In the race for Clerk of Court
Brown had 3492 votes to lead
the ticket while his opponent,
Robert Galloway, had 1136.
In the race for county
commissioner, George Rourk,
chairman of the present board,
led the field with 2280 votes. He
was one of the five high men,
which also included R. L. Rabon
with 1897, L. T. Yaskell with
1644, Jerry Moore with 1692
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Tide Table
Following !• the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These hours are ap
proximately comet and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Pear
Pilot's Association.
Thursday, May 7,
10:03 a.m. 4:10 a.m.
10:21p.m. 4:10 p.m. \
Friday, May 8, \
10:45 a.m. 4:52 a.m.
11:03 p.m. 4:52 p.m.
Saturday, May 9, j
11:27 a.m. 5:34 a.m.
11:45 p.m. 5:34 p.m. ft
Sunday, May 10,
12:15 a.m. 6:22 a.m.
12:33 p.m. 6:22 p.m.
Monday, May 11,
1:03 a.m. 7:10 a.m.
7:10 p.m.
1:21a.m. 7:58 a.m.
1:57 p.m. 8:04 p.m.
Tuesday, May 12,
Wednesday, May 13,
2:09 ajn. 8:46 a.m.
2:51 p.m. 9:04 p.m.
Official
ary And School Board Election Returns On Page 10