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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1970
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Water Intake Pipes At CP&L Plant
The huge conduits shown in the foreground are
pipes being installed in the cooling system of the
CP&L Nuclear Plant near Southport. Water for this
purpose will be brought in by canal from the Cape
Fear River and discharge will be by canal to the
Atlantic Ocean. The rapid rate of progress in con
ventional construction is evidenced by the concrete
structures in the background. (Photo by Spencer).
County Enrollment Increases
To Almost 6,000 Students
The enrollment in public
schools in Brunswick county is
expected to reach nearly 6,000
for the 1970-71 school term by
the end of the week according to
Ralph C. King, Superintendent
of Brunswick County Schools.
According to best estimates at
JOHN KING
Lion President
To Be Speaker
District Governor John King
will be the honored guest at the
meeting of the Southport Lions
Club Thursday, according to an
announcement by Fraser Law,
president. The meeting will be
held at 6:30 o’clock at Chez
Steak at Yaupon Beach.
Governor King is from
Wilmington and is the current
governor of District 31-H. This
district is composed of 14
counties in Southeastern North
Carolina. There are 40 clubs
with 1,350 members in this
district.
During ms term ot otfice,
Governor King will visit ail 40
clubs. This visit to the local club
marks his first official visit to
the Southport Lions Club. The
subject of his message to this
active civic group will be
“Involvement Now”.
Lions International is the
world’s largest service
organization. There are over
25,000 clubs with nearly
1,000,000 members in 145
countries or geographical
locations. The main project of
the Lions of North Carolina is
their work with the blind and
visually handicapped. Other
projects include Boys Home at
Lake Waccamaw, and Camp
Dogwood, a summer recreational
camp for the blind.
Governor King is married to
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least 150 county students are
attending private institutions in
and outside the county.
However, it appears that this
loss of students has been offset
by the influx of new students
into the county. All schools have
reported a number of new
students enrolling for the first
time in the county schools.
Enrollment had reached 5,960
as of Tuesday with additional
students expected to enroll
during the week. The school
system requests that all students
enroll as promptly as possible so
that their presence will be
reflected in the first ten days
attendance reports.
The county’s public schools
opened smoothly and almost
without incident Friday.
Bolivia High School was the
scene of the only indication of
major discontent. There black
students boycotted the school
on opening day Friday, this in
protest of the fact that only one
of six full-time high
school teachers is a Negro. In
addition, the parttime driver
education instructor is a member
of that race.
ou£jei in leiiuem rung iliei
Monday with a group of black
parents and patrons of the
school in an effort to iron out
any existing difficulties. He
promised the group that an
effort will be made to involve
more Negroes in teaching
assignments in the Bolivia
faculty.
The group meeting with King
spoke highly of the efforts being
made by Principal Wade Duncan
to maintain control of his school
situation.
Franklin Randolph, Negro
longshoreman who is a resident
of the Bolivia community, acted
as spokesman for the dissenting
group and said that the boycott
will be called off until after the
next meeting of the Brunswick
County Board of Education,
which is scheduled for
September 8. He did indicate
that unless demands for
additional Negro faculty
members, plus elimination of the
dual bussing system, are met the
boycott will be resumed.
Grape Growers
Hold Meeting
“Potential for grape growing is
good,” members of the New
River Grape Growers
Association were told Thursday
when they held their annual
meeting at the Community
Building in Southport.
This is not just because the
market is good, said Dr. T.
Carlton Blalock, assistant
director of the Agricultural
Extension Service. “The
muscadine variety is native to
this region,” he reported.
A session of the meeting was
held at the grape vineyard
operated by Harry Sell and his
son of Southport. The vineyard
is located near the Intracoastal
Waterway between Southport
and the bridge to Oak Island.
More than 100 extension
workers and association
members were told that present
markets could handle several
hundred more acres of
muscadine type grapes if the
fruit were available. During the
tour of Sells’ vineyard the
visitors were shown a new trellis
system for mechanical harvesting
and studied the good and bad
features of grape growing in
general.
The group included extension
workers and farmers from
throughout southeastern North
Carolina, from as far awav as
Robeson and Lenoir counties.
Joe F. Brooks, North Carolina
State University Extension
horticulturist, said that grape
vineyards are scarce in the region
but are scattered throughout the
area.
Interest was focused on the
Geneva trellis system that lends
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1935 it still was flourishing, and Peter McLaren, native of Australia
and claimant to the world s title in this field, was coming to the CCC
Camp at Southport to put on a demonstration. There was a front
page picture of him m our issue of August 28,1935. Application had
been made for funds with which to repair and enlarge the municipal
power plant in Southport; and the Southport unit of North Carolina
Fisheries, Inc., had received its charter.
Mrs. U.L. Rourk had been named post master at Leland- C A
Ledford had reported as principal of Southport High School and
Miss Lois Jane Bussells had been hostess at an all-giri house party at
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MRS. GRIFFITHS
Congresswoman
To Be Speaker
Representative Martha W.
Griffiths of Michigan, who will
be the principal speaker at the
banquet of the Fall Conference
of Democratic Women of North
Carolina on October 2, was the
chief strategist in the recent
passage by the U.S. House of
Representatives of the proposed
constitutional amendment to
guarantee equal rights to
women.
A veteran political campaigner
who first was elected to the
House in 1955, Mrs. Griffiths is
a former Detroit judge who is
one of only ten female members
of the House. She is a forthright
speaker for women in politics as
well as their champion for the
elimination of discrimination.
Her address will highlight the
50th anniversary of women’s
suffrage and will follow a
business session on Friday
afternoon and reception at the
Executive Mansion where Mrs.
Robert W. Scott will receive
those attending the 2-day
conference.
Sargent Shriver, former
ambassador to France, will be
the concluding speaker of the
conference at a luncheon on
Saturday. Mrs. James M. Harper,
Jr., Democratic Executive
Committee vice-chairman, will
preside at the sessions. The Wake
County Democratic Women,
headed by Mrs. C. Gordon
Maddrey, are hosting the
conference.
Mrs. Griffiths was appointed
to the Joint Economic
Committee (1961), and elected
the Ways and Means Committee
(1962). She is presently
chairman of the Subcommittee
on Fiscal Policy of the Joint
Economic Committee. In 1969
Mrs. Griffiths was appointed to
the House Select Committee on
Crime.
Congresswoman Griffiths
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New East Coast Highway
May Come Through County
A planning committee met
Sunday to set the stage for a six
state “Citizens” conference in
October to promote a modem
Coastal Corridor Highway
reaching from the Norfolk,
Virginia area to the vicinity of
Savannah, Georgia.
The Conference is set for
October 19 at the Myrtle Beach
Convention Center. It is
expected to attract as many as
1500 interested citizens and
development leaders from the
Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia,
Maryland and Delaware. Florida
is expected to participate.
The “citizens movement”
conference idea was originated
and launched by the Mid-East
Economic Development
Commission with offices in
Washington, North Carolina.
Frank M. Kivett, Executive
Director of Mid-East is Secretary
to the Conference Committee
which met in Myrtle Beach
Sunday to draw up an agenda
and make arrangements.
Committee members represent
each state involved in the
proposed coastal corridor and
terminals.
Dr. Leo W. Jenkins was named
chairman and moderator for the
October East Coast Highway
Conference. Dr. Jenkins is
President of East Carolina
University at Greenville and is a
long-time leader in pushing
educational, industrial and
economic development in the
coastal region. He expressed
enthusiastic support for the
“citizens movement” idea.
Dr. Jenkins says, “We have
long recognized the need for
adequate highway transportation
in an area which has been
neglected in the past.
Cooperative action by those
concerned, speaking with one
voice, appears to be a positive
approach to getting things
done.”
The agenda for the conference
adopted by the committee
includes testimony on such
subjects as tourism and
recreation, agri-business,
aqua-business, industry and
industrial development, business
and finance, motor
transportation, general
economics, inter-government
relations and regional
humanistics; all in relation to
improved highway
transportation.
Terminal Centers of interest
include the Chesapeake Bay
Bridge-Tunnel and Hampton
Roads areas, including the
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Farm Election
Ballots Mailed
ASC community committee
election ballots were mailed cm
September 1 to all known elgible
farm voters. Eligible 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 for the ballot
will not be counted if they do.
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 Tuesday,
September 15, at 8:30 a.m., in
the county ASCS Office.
In each of the ASC
communities in the county,
three community committeemen
and two alternates will be
selected. 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 becomes 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.
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 it’s
officers. They also assist the
County ASC Committee in local
administration of government
farm programs and help keep
farmers informed on how the
programs affect individuals farm
operations.
Any farm owner, tenant or
sharecropper, who is of legal
voting age may vote if he has an
interest in a farm and is eligible
to participate in any ASCS
programs administered in his
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Planning Youth
Meet Sunday
The young people in the
southwest end of Brunswick
county have decided it is high
time that there was a
“Happening” for youth in these
parts. Consequently, they are
planning a Celebration of Life
for Sunday afternoon at 5:30
o’clock on the front lawn of
Calvary Baptist Church in
Shallotte.
The Baptist youth and the
Brunswick United Methodist
youth are sponsoring the event,
and will p rovide an
interdenominational worship
service for this “Happening”.
Young people are invited to be
present. Adults accompanied by
young people may also attend.
Those who own and can play
musical instruments are asked to
bring them along. Special music
and group participation will be
featured.
Refreshments will be served.
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tECOMDUY—CERIBIUMXS am INTERSTATE ROUTES
Lackey Distribution Center
Near Leland Is Dedicated
Lt. Governor Pat Taylor sees
eastern North Carolina changing
from a consumer region into a
section of the state where
industrial expansion is taking
place at a rapid rate.
Brunswick Now
Has 1890 Vets
There are 1890 veterans in
Brunswick county and 531,000
in North Carolina, according to
Veterans Administration figures
released today. These figures are
based on America’s 27.3 million
former servicemen as of the
beginning of 1970, according to
W.R. Phillips, Director of the
Winston-Salem VA Regional
Office.
According to the latest
available figures, some 280
Brunswick County and 71,000
North Carolin veterans were in
service during the Vietnam
era—that is after August 4,1964.
World War II veterans make up
the largest group of veterans
with 950 from Brunswick
County and 283,000 from North
Carolina.
Some 240 Brunswick county
and 62,000 state veterans saw
military service only between
the Korean Conflict and the
Vietnam Era (February 1
1955-August 4, 1964), Phillips
said.
Of 26,000 World War I
veterans in North Carolina, 120
are from Brunswick county.
Phillips pointed out that there
are some duplications in these
figures since some veterans
served in more than one conflict.
An estimated 66 of American’s
5,000 Spanish-American War
veterans live in North Carolina.
Those who served since
February 1, 1955, may be
eligible for GI Bill training.
Those who served since June 27,
1950, may be eligible for home
He was the speaker at
dedication ceremonies for Lackey
Industries, Inc., Friday
afternoon where he was
introduced by President E.G.
Lackey as “the next governor of
North Carolina.”
Taylor said that he has made a
number of visits to industrial
sites in connection with their
dedication or opening operation
and “it seems that about half of
them either are in Brunswick or
New Hanover counties.”
He then told the story about
the man who made fun of North
Carolina as a state that was
forced to make use of products
from every other region of the
United States, only to be
reprimanded by a loyal Tar Heel
who had some superlatives to
cite for the benefit of his cynical
friend. The lieutenant governor
left little doubt that he believes
North Carolina is in the
mainstream of progress.
He gave some of the pertiment
details of the facility which was
being dedicated Friday in the
presence of about 200 city and
county officials, businessmen
and customers. The Lackey
Industries Building is 200-ft x
1,000-ft, a total of 200,000
square feet. It has a cubic foot
capacity of 5,200,000, is
fireproof and has a sophisticated
sprinkler system.
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Lackey Plant Dedicated
ci Governor Pat Taylor was the principal speaker
riday for the dedication of the Lackey Industries
building near Leland. Shown above, left to right, are
L. R. Bovvers, president of Waccamaw Bank & Trust
c 'j. ’ ^ov- Taylor, Cephus Long, member of the board
of directors, and E. G. Lackey, president of Lackey In