The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
VOLUME 412
No. 5
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A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
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10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST A 1970
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Mobile OB Unit
This ambulance from Gilbert’s Funeral Service in Southport became the birth
place for a baby girl during a series of bizarre events which occurred Monday
afternoon. Mrs. Edna Warnett, left, grandmother of the new-born infant, perform
ed the services of midwife under the instruction of Tommy Gilbert, right, ambiUr,
ance driver, who made emergency use of prior instruction in patient care. (Photo
by Spencer)
Child Is Born
In Ambulance
Near Southport
A Southport woman gave birth
to a baby girl Monday while
enroute to a hospital in
Wilmington as her mother, under
the direction of a young
j ambulance driver, performed the
j services of a midwife. Both the
1 mother and the child survived
the ordeal.
“If it hadn’t of been for
Tommy the baby probably
would have been born dead”,
V Mrs. Edna Wamett said Tuesday.
1 “He told me what to do, and
$ when I said ‘I can’t do it’ he told
me ‘the hell you can’t’, so I did
what he said.”
She was talking about young
Tommy Gilbert who was driver
of the ambulance called for a
trip to Wilmington when her
daughter, Bertha Wamett, began
to have labor pains for the
second time that day.
Earlier in the day Mrs. Warnett
had taken her daughter to a
Wilmington hospital where a
nurse had examined her and
described her condition to a
Wilmington doctor. Without
seeing the patient, he expressed
the opinion that the trip had
been premature and told them
to go on back home and come
again when the expectant
mother began to have labor
pains.
That was at about 4:30
Monday afternoon. Gilbert was
$ called, the patient and her
mother were loaded and they
stopped by Dosher Memorial
Hospital where they were told
;/■ they would have plenty of time
to get the patient to Wilmington,
where OB services would be
available.
The ambulance had not
reached the Board of Education
office before a crisis developed.
“Something had to be done,”
COmttBMd On Pip Twm)
Bolivia Officials
Get $37,000 Check
Bolivia officials were presented
a check for $37,000 today
(Wednesday) in ceremonies held
at the Bolivia town hall. The
check represented the proceeds
from the sale of water bonds to
Farmers Home Administration
which, together with an FHA
grant of $31,000, will be used to
finance a $68,000 water system
for the town.
James T. Johnson, State
Director of the Farmers Home
Administration, presented the
check to J.M. King, Mayor of
Bolivia. In presenting the check,
Johnson noted that the town
had recently awarded
construction contracts and that
the deep weels and water lines
were under construction and the
contractor for the elevated
storage tank was working on this
part of the system.
Johnson pointed out that the
town has had no central water
system and that individual
families and businesses have
been depending on shallow wells
for their water supply. These
wells, usually located near septic
tanks, have presented a constant
health hazard in addition to the
high iron and sulphur content of
the water.
The new water system
underway will solve these
problems for the town residents
and should mark the beginning
of a new era for the town.
Central community water
systems usually mean new home
construction, remodeling of
existing homes for bathrooms,
and water using appliances such
as washing machines,
dishwashers, and disposal units.
Although Bolivia is a small
town, it is located on U.S.
Highway 17, a heavily traveled
road, and is in the central trade
center for a large area of
Brunswick county.
“I look for a change in
community attitudes and predict
a new period of growth for the
town,” said Johnson.
Johnson further noted: “The
administration is committed to
building rural communities
through programs such as the
water and sewer programs of the
Farmers Home Administration.
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Employees Of
DuPont Honored
Du Pont construction
employees at the Du Pont Cape
Fear Plant received the
Company’s Board of Directors’
Award last week for their safety
performance.
Earle F. McSpadden, field
project manager for the
construction forces, accepted
this award on behalf of the
many hundreds of people who
have contributed so much
toward this achievement. This
award is in recognition of more
than 1,124,000 hours and 847
days without a lost-time injury.
By comparison with the safety
performance of the construction
industry throughout the United
States, thirty-one disabling
injuries have been avoided at this
site during this span of time.
In addition, the employees of
the electrical and insulation
contractors have worked more
than 500,000 hours without a
lost-time injury during this same
time period.
Five hundred and
twenty-seven employees have
been given individual recognition
for their outstanding safety
performances.
Basin Used For Unloading
This is the Willis Yacht Basin on Moore St. in Southport which recently has
become the busy scene for the unloading of building material for the CP&L plant
now under construction near Southport. Sand and gravel for the cement plant at
the building site come in by barge and are unloaded by equipment shown in the
background. (Photo by Spencer)
Public School
Opens Friday
For Fall Term
School doors open for
Brunswick County students
Friday morning for a half-day
session. Regular classroom hours
go into effect Monday.
More than 6,000 county
students are expected to report
for classes, according to Supt.
Ralph King.
The county’s 260 teachers
reported for work Thursday to
begin their work for the 1970-71
school year.
Principals serving Brunswick
Itounty schools this year are
Wade H. Duncan, Bolivia High
School; E.L. Pettiford,
Brunswick-Southport High
School; W. Nelson Best, Leland
High School; James F.
Clemmons, Lincoln Elementary
School; Jasper T. Keziah,
Shallotte High School; Col.
Marion L. Bums, Southport
Elementary School; Jonathan
Hankins, Union Elementary
School; and Roland W. English,
Waccamaw High School.
All children entering the first
grade are supposed to have
immunizations required by the
county Board of Health. The
school principals are on duty
and should be contacted if there
is any question concerning these
requirements.
Moose Members
Hear President
The North Carolina
Association of Moose held its
state convention last week at
Timme Plaza Motor Inn in
Wilmington with a record
registration that included more
than a score of Brunswick
county members and their wives.
A highlight of the convention
was an address by State
President Lance J. Spencer who
talked at length about the
influence that the youth
revolution is having upon life in
the United States. His speech
was entitled “What’s Happening
To America”, and following are
excepts from his talk:
“Most of us here today are
parents, and many of you are
grandparents. We have seen and
heard a great deal from our
young people lately, about their
disillusionment with their world,
their society, and our
generation.
“One thing our country needs
to fear is the current disdain for
orde1' among some of its citizens,
and particularly the
discontented, dissatisfied young
Americans of whom I speak
today. I am not for or against
the ardent liberals and
conservatives of our generation,
but in recognition that there is
good and bad in both, and we
have a need for all Americans to
work together—to build up and
not tear down.
“We have been so materialistic,
they say, that we have forgotten
the real values of life and love.
As a result of our greed and
timid conformity we have
missed the boat, and in the
process have left them a
mess . . . They may be right in
part, but I do not believe they
are all right.
“It is strange that their
generation should be the most
favored and yet the most
self-pitying. If they think we
value too highly the security of
material possessions, let us
remind them of this: most of us
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Dedication 01
Plant Friday
Lackey Industries, Inc., will
hold a dedication ceremony
Friday afternoon at their facility
near Leland.
The building, which contains
200,000 square feet and
5,000,000 cubic feet of storage
space, was completed in May of
this year. Since that time it has
been in use by a number of
major business concerns in this
area, including DuPont, Sears
Roebuck, Riegel and others.
Basically the building is a
storage warehouse, but as such it
also has become a distribution
center. It is located on a railroad
spur adjoining the DuPont plant
in Northwest township.
Savings & Loan Office Ai Shallotfe
ou ,This is the a“ra.ctive new office of Security Savings and Loan Association at
Shallotte. The building was completed several months ago, and has been in use for
some time, but this picture shows it since the grounds were graded and the sign
erected. (Photo by Spencer)
Says Corn Crop
Is Badly Hurt
In Brunswick
Many Brunswick county corn
growers will suffer severe loss of
yield in their corn Helds this
year because of Southern Corn
Blight, according to Archie F.
Martin, County Extension
Chairman.
This is apparently due to a
new strain of the fungus
Helminthosporium Maydis that
is infesting about 80 percent of
the varieties now being grown.
The disease started in Florida
during March and has since
spread to the Canadian border.
“We have had a small problem
with blight for many years, but
it has never caused such a severe
loss,” Martin said. “Hot, humid
weather has caused the disease
to spread rapidly in the fields of
susceptible varieties and in many
cases the ears are infected as well
as the leaves.”
‘‘There are no control
measures that the farmer can
take now,” he said “but if you
have fields that are affected you
should harvest them as soon as
the moisture level will allow.
The longer the com is left in the
field the larger the loss in the
field will be.”
Com breeders will be making
an effort to produce seed for
next year’s crop that have shown
resistance to the new strain of
Southern Blight. The varieties
that seem to be most severely
damaged are those that were
produced with male sterile lines
in the hybridization program.
Some breeders are planning to
produce seed corn this winter to
provide a supply for next year’s
crop.
Locate Body Of
Lanvale Man
An autopsy performed by the
State Medical Examiner revealed
no foul play in the drowning
death of Roy Marshall Ganey,
41, last week in the Brunswick
River.
The body of the Lanvale man
was recovered Thursday
afternoon and Brunswick
County Coroner Lowell Bennett
ordered the autopsy. Ganey
reportedly was fishing with a
companion Tuesday when their
boat capsized, and Ganey was
unable to swim ashore.
The body was recovered
during a search by the Leland,
Acme-Delco-Riegelwood, Town
Creek and Pender County rescue
squads, Brunswick County
sheriffs deputies. State Wildlife
protectors and members of the
Leland Volunteer Fire
Department. The Ogden Rescue
Squad participated in the first
day’s search.
Sencland Director
Hears Accusations
By ED HARPER
The position of Sencland
Community Action executive
director may be worth $13,500,
but A.J. Smith can’t see it.
That is perhaps the nicest
thing the Whiteville builder said
about Charlie Mum ford all night.
From there Smith, along with
fellow directors Mrs. Delilah
Blanks and Fairley Newton,
launched a verbal attack on
Mumford, the Sencland director,
that disrupted procedure and
forced adjournment of the
meeting of the agency’s board of
directors. The session was held
in the Columbus County
Courthouse Tuesday night.
Contributing to the attack on
Mumford was a petition by a
disgruntled employee. Mrs.
Thetis Dixon’s complaint was
heard by the personnel
committee before the full-board
session and the committee
decided to uphold Mumford’s
action that transferred Mrs.
Dixon from the Baltimore
Center to the Leland Center.
Mrs. Blanks accused Mumford
of bringing other business before
the personnel committee “to
hide the real issue” and later
charged that the executive
director showed “no common
sense” when he transferred Mrs.
Dixon.
But the major criticisms came
from Smith and were endorsed
by Newton.
Smith started the next round
Mrs. Marilyn Russ Pinkleton of
Leland has graduated from the
North Carolina Baptist Hospital
School of Nursing in
Winston-Salem. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Russ and is a graduate of Leland
High School. Her husband
Dennie L. Pinkleton, is a 1970
graduate of Wake Forest
University and is headed for
active duty in the Navy as an
officer candidate in the aviation
program.
Time And Tide
A front page story in our issue of August 28, 1935, declared that
record prices were being paid for tobacoo, and averages quoted for
succeeding days were $26.04, $28.03, $24.63 and $24.32-but it is
well remembered that this was in the mid-thirties and that the
depression was not long past. Schools were to open that fall on
September 19.
Mrs. Anna Davis of Southport owned a time-keeping machine that
had the 8-day clock backed off the boards. Her clock, brought over
from Switzerland by her father, the late L. Miller, required winding
but once each year. Efforts were being made for a cooperative
advertising venture for promotion of Brunswick county.
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of debate by asking “what are
the poor going to get?”,
referring to the budget that sets
aside a considerable portion for
salaries and much less for
emergency relief in the form of
medical services and food
stamps.
Deputy Director A.P. Worley
answered that the community
action agency is not intended to
supplement the Department of
Social Services. “This is not a
hand-out program,” he said,
“The poor will get the services
of these paid workers.”
“That’s thoroughly
uuuersiuua oy me, omun
replied, “but there is a lot of
money going to someone.” He
termed Mumford’s use of money
“shenanigans”
Mumford, accused of padding
his own salary, stated that his
pay is the same that the
executive director has received
since the agency was funded in
1966. Worley said his salary has
been reduced, and that most
lower-echelon employees have
received a five percent increase.
Mumford remained quiet
throughout most of the meeting
but offered an occasional
statement in rebuttal of Smith.
For example, when Smith said a
$20 stipend for a room while
Mumford visited OEO in Atlanta
“seems like paying for a suite in
the Waldorf Astoria,” Mumford
replied that $20 does not even
(ObotUmad On Pip Two)
Says Hospital
Makes Progress
L.T. Yaskell, chairman of the
Board of Trustees for Dosher
Memorial Hospital, was speaker
at the regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club Thursday
night and reported on recent
improvements at the hospital.
Tlie speaker reported that the
recent completion of an
emergency room has provided
additional medical services that
are badly needed, especially on
weekends. During this period
every week two young doctors
from one of the nearby military
bases come in for duty and give
round-the-clock service.
The board chairman reported
that an orthopedics specialist
now has regular hours at the
hospital each week and that a
specialist in cardiology also is
seeing patients at the local
hospital.
U1V.1UUC
VJ wici unpujYcnicnto
the addition of an inhalator,
improvements to the operating
room and airconditioning for the
entire hospital.
Yaskell said that a project now
is underway to upgrade facilities
for handling OB cases with the
objective that the hospital at
Southport may be in position to
offer care for all except cases
requiring the services of
specialists in rare fields of
medicine.
The board chairman chided his
audience for having too little
concern for the hospital except
when they have need of its
services. “We are proud of the
place and we would like to show
it to you,” he said. “We invite
you to come out for a tour of
inspection.”
Ballots For
ASC Election
Being Mailed
On September 1, ASC
community committee election
ballots will be mailed to all
known eligible farm voters in
Brunswick county, according to
Edgar L. Holden, chairman of
the Brunswick County ASC
Committee.
Farm voters may vote for up
to three of the candidates listed,
or they may write in their
choices on lines provided at the
bottom of the ballot. They must
not vote for more than three. To
be counted, all ballots must be
properly signed and mailed or
returned to the County ASCS
Office by September 11. Votes
will be tabulated September 15,
beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the
ASCS Office in Shallotte.
In each of the ASC
communities m the county,
three community committeemen
and two alternates will be
elected. The candidate receiving
the largest number of votes
becomes chairman; the second
largest vote-getter,
vice-chairman; third-high, regular
member; fourth and fifth highest
become first and second
alternates who may serve on the
committee if regular members
are temporarily absent or if a
permanent vacancy occurs.
ASC community
committees are elected for
one-year terms, beginning
October 1.
Holden said, “It’s very
important that farmers elect
their most qualified
farm-neighbors for community
committee posts. These
community committees elect the
County ASC Committee and
choose its officers. They also
assist the County ASC
Committee in local
administration of government
farm programs and help keep
farmers informed on how the
program affect individual farm
operations.”
Any farm owner, tenant, or
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Food Stamps
Demand Higher
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s food stamp
program aided almost twice as
many needy North Carolinians
in June 1970 as in June 1969.
Participation increased from
74,523 to 147,847 persons.
In Brunswick county the
number was 1,582 this year as
compared to 1,117 last year.
In addition, 127,237 needy
persons in the state received
USDA donated foods through
the family food distribution
program in June.
Total participation in both
food programs increased 29 per
cent, from 213,807 in June
1969 to 275,084 in June 1970.
In North Carolina, the food
distribution program is
administered by the North
Carolina Department of
Agriculture, and the food stamp
program is administered by the
North Carolina Board of Public
Welfare, both in cooperation
with USDA’s Food and
Nutrition Service.
Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These hours were
furnished to The State Port
Pilot by the Cape Fear Pilots
Association.
High Low
Thursday, August 27,
5:21A.M. 11:34 A.M.
5:57 P.M. 12:22 P.M.
Friday, August 28,
6:15 AM. 12:22 A.M.
6:30 P.M.
Saturday, August 29,
7:03 A.M. 1:00 P.M.
7:27 P.M. 1:10 P.M.
Sunday, August 30,
7:45 A.M, 1:52 A.M.
8:03 P.M. 1:52 P.M.
Monday, August 31,
8:21 A.M. 2:28 A.M.
8:39 P.M. 2:34 P.M.
Tuesday, September 1,
8:57 A.M. 3:04 A.M.
9:09 P.M. 3:16 P.M.
Wednesday, September 2,
9:33 A.M. 3:34 A.M.
9:39 P.M. 3:52 A.M.