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Brunswick County
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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VOLUME 42 No. 11
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SOUTHPORT, N.C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1970
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Presents Check For Bookmobile
**fSter*XWe- vice President of Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co., presents a check for
J500 to Mrs. A. P. Henry, Brunswick County Chairman for Friends of the Library,
pus was the kick-off for the fund drive to pay for the new bookmobile. The gift is
for the Southport, Shallotte, Bolivia, Leland and Yaupon Beach branches of the fin
ancial institution. In the group are library officials and members of Friends of the
Library organization for Brunswick county. (Photo by Delores 'Spencer)
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Lions Collect For Bookmobile
Tommy Harrelson and C. D. PickerreLl, members of the Southport Lions Club,
accept a contribution for the Bookmobile Fund Drive from Mrs. Irene Hankins
counselor for the Brunswick County Schools. The Lions Club is cooperating with
Friends of the Library in raising funds to pay for the new Bookmobile, shown in
the background. (Photo by Delores Spencer)
Shallotte Girl
Receives Honor
Letters of Commendation
honoring her for her high
performance on the 1970
National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test (NMSQT) have
been awarded to a student at
Shallotte High School, Principal
J.T. Keziah has announced.
The commended student is
Susan T. Usher, who is among
35,000 students in the United
States who scored in the upper 2
percent of those who are
expected to graduate from high
school in 1971. The commended
students rank just below the
14,750 semifinalists announced
in September by the National
Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Edward C. Smith, president of
NMSC, said: “Although
commended students advance no
further in the Merit Scholarship
competition, their standing in
this nationwide program
deserves public recognition.
Their high performance on the
NMSQT gives promise of
continued success in college.
“The commended students
should be encouraged to pursue
their education since their
intellectual talent represents an
important and much needed
natural resource. Both these
students and our nation will
benefit from their continuing
educational development.”
The commended students’
names are reported to certain
scholarship-granting agencies and
to the colleges they named as
their first and second choices
when they took the NMSQT in
February 1970. The reports
include home addresses, test
scores, and anticipated college
major and career intentions of
the commended students. NMSC
encourages these students to
make every effort to continue
their education.
Begin Fund Drive
For Bookmobile
Friends of the Library for
Brunswick county have launched
a fund raising campaign for the
purpose of paying for the new
bookmobile.
The first major contribution
was made Friday morning when
Lester Lowe, vice-president of
Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co.,
presented Mrs. A.P. Henry, Jr.
Flood Insurance
Now Available
The U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development
announced today that effective
Sept. 18,1970, local property and
casualty agents can start selling
HUD national flood insurance in
Long Beach.
Hie National Flood Insurers
Association has designated the
Kemper Insurance Co.,
Charlotte, as the servicing
company for the Town of Long
Beach. Agents should contact this
company immediately to obtain
policy forms, rates, flood in
surance manuals, and any other
necessary information.
According to Federal In
surance Administrator George K.
Bernstein, “now that the com
munity has established its
eligibility, homeowners and
owners of small businesses
should take prompt advantage of
this vital insurance protection.”
He pointed out that annual U.S.
property damage resulting from
natural disasters averages $1
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president of the sponsoring
organization a check for $500.00.
Later in the day members of
the Southport Lions Club, whose
members have pledged their
support for the current project,
set up business near the bank
when people came in to cash their
paychecks. In a couple of hours
they had collected $200 to add to
the bookmobile fund.
Robert Howard is serving as
chairman of this drive, and he
has made contacts throughout
the county in an effort to bring
about general participation.
“The bookmobile serves
everybody,” he said, “and I think
everybody in the county has
something at stake as we raise
money to pay off the debt on the
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Representative R.C. Soles will
be the speaker at Friends of the
Library meeting next Wednesday
evening at 7:30 o’clock at the
home of the president, Mrs. A.P.
Henry, Jr.
Deadline To
Register Is
October 5th
Monday is the deadline for
registering in time to participate
on the General Election in
November, H. Foster Mintz,
chairman of the Brunswick
county Board of Elections
warned this week.
This means that Thursday and
Saturday are the only days when
the Board of Elections office at
Bolivia normally would be open,
but Chairman Mintz says that
registration may be done at any
time between now and 6 p.m.
Monday if they will contact him
or the executive secretary.
Mintz calls attention to the
fact that scores of new people
have come into the county since
registration prior to the primary
election and this will be their
last chance to become eligible to
vote in November. “In
addition,” he says, “we have
those who have changed their
place of residence within the
county. It will be necessary for
them to be properly registered in
the books for the precinct where
they now reside.”
We want to make it possible
for every eligible voter to
register before the deadline,
Mintz emphasized. “If they will
cooperate with us we can handle
the job.”
Brunswick Man
To Guatemala
Berry J. Bland, of Long Beach,
who retired this year as Group
Manager, Galey and Lord
Division, Burlington Industries,
Inc., has accepted an assignment
with the International Executive
Service Corps to serve as a
volunteer executive in
Guatemala with Passarelli y Cia,
Ltd. This textile manufacturing .
company asked IESC to locate an
executive experienced in dyeing
and finishing textile fabrics to
help the company improve ef
ficiency, quality of product and
customer relations. Bland, who
will be accompanied by his wife,
is planning to leave on September
30 for his three to four months
assignment abroad.
The International Executive
Service Corps was organized in
1964 by a group of American
businessmen, headed by David
Rockefeller of the Chase
Manhattan Bank, to help speed
economic growth and strengthen
private enterprise in the
developing countries. While
supported in part by the U.S.
Agency for International
Development, IESC also receives
financial sponsorship from over
200 major U.S. corporations, and
is managed independently by
private businessmen.
Frank Pace, Jr., a former
Secretary of the Army and chief
executive of the General
Dynamics Corporation, is
president. George D. Woods,
former president of the In
ternational Bank for Recon
struction and Development (the
World Bank), is chairman of the
IESC board; Philip D. Reed,
former chairman of the board of
the General Electric Company,
heads the executive committee;
and Ray R. Eppert, former
chairman of the Burroughs
Corporation, is vice chairman of
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Mobile Classrooms Arrive
Mobile classrooms for use by elementary school students at Southport have been
delivered and will be located on the property where the old Southport High School
building once stood. Two sections of the brick structure also will be used. (Photo bv
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.Receives Legion Of Merit
Brigadier General Otis E. Winn, USAF, Deputy Commander, Military Traffic
Management and Terminal Service, center, pins the Legion of Merit medal on
Lieutenant Colonel Biggerstaff while Colonel Robert D. Reid, Commander, Military
Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point, looks on.
Hospital Has
Many Services
Dosher Memorial Hospital is a
small county-city hospital, but it
affords a comprehensive health
program.
In order that the public may
know of the medical services
available, a list of the medical
staff and their functions is
published.
Active Medical Staff
(physicians who admit and care
for patients daily): Dr. Gene A.
Wallin, general practitioner; Dr.
Norman Templon, general
practitioner; Dr. Fred Burdette,
general practitioner and surgeon;
Dr. J.L. Sampson, Jr. surgeon;
Dr. Richard Corbett, radiologist
in x-ray, (comes each Tuesday
and Friday), Dr. Richard
Conrad, dentist.
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e And Tide
There was much talk of the Jenrette murder case, and a front page
picture in our issue of September 25, 1935, showed the scene and
some of the men who helped capture the defendant. Judge Clawson
Williams was the judge designated to preside over the forthcoming
trial. A survivor from the shipwrecked Dixie had written a local civic
club official to say that “it was almost worth being shipwrecked to
have had the opportunity to come to your community and to meet
the hospitable people there”.
Mrs. Annie K. Vitou had been hostess to the “F.F.” Club at a crab
supper during the previous week; the editor thought that school bus
drivers should be required to take a driving test; and there was a
front page feature of Uncle Jim Lewis, the faithful janitor at the
Southport postoffice for more than a quarter century.
A front page feature in The Pilot for September 25, 1940,
recounted the beginning of the merchandising career of one Harry
Robinson. It was the story about the big pile of matches he salvaged
when the J. Allen Taylor Wholesale warehouse in Wilmington
burned. Gene O’Brien still was flying homing pigeons, and this time
a couple of his birds were shown being released in Whiteville by the
Tobacco Sales Supervisor, who sent the latest word of the high
prices being paid on that market that day. W.F. Ward, who had been
given up as drowned in an accident off Calabash several weeks
before, had been found well and walking in a Georgia town.
Work of dredging the Southport yacht basin had been completed;
a headline brought word to the married men that they were not
exempt from the draft; and plans were being made for a local tennis
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Officer Receives
Legion Of Merit
Lieutenant Colonel Jack
Biggerstaff, Deputy Commander
of the Military Ocean Terminal,
Bunny Point, has been awarded
the Legion of Merit for service
performed in Vietnam just prior
to his assignment to Sunny
Point. The citation reads as
follows:
“By direction of the President,
the Legion of Merit is awarded
to Lieutenant Colonel Jack
Biggerstaff, Transportation
Corps, United States Army, who
distinguished himself by
exceptionally meritorious
conduct in the performance of
outstanding service during the
period July 1969 to July 1970
while serving as Commanding
Officer, 4th Traffic Region,
507th Transportation Group
(Movement Control) in the
Republic of Vietnam. Upon his
assignment. Colonel Biggerstaff
immediately recognized an
urgent need for standardized
procedures for the control and
management of Sea-Land Van
use. He prepared such a
comprehensive Standing
Operating Procedure that it was
subsequently adopted as the
accepted procedure for all of
Vietnam. Realizing a need for a
m ore versatile transportation
system within the Southern II
Corps Tactical Zone, he planned
and implemented procedures to
upgrade the rail system. Colonel
Biggerstaff’s expertise in traffic
management has resulted in a
significant increase in efficiency
and has led to a tremendous
financial savings to the
government. Colonel
Biggerstaff’s total dedication to
providing complete support to
the combat soldier earned the
praise and admiration of the
logistical and combat unit
commanders of both United
States and Free World Military
Assistance Forces. Through his
initiative, resourcefulness and
readiness to resort to the
expedient, he has materially
contributed to the allied effort
in the Republic of Vietnam.
Lieutenant Colonel Biggerstaff’s
professional competence and
outstanding achievements are in
keeping with the highest
traditions of the military service
and reflect great credit upon
himself, his unit and the United
States Army.”
Colonel Biggerstaff, whose
permanent home address is
Bostic is currently residing in
Wilmington with his wife,
Patricia, daughter Sonja, and son
Steven.
Road Project
Bids Submitted
An apparent low bid of
$83,010.50 for a road project in
Brunswick and New Hanover
counties have been received by
the State Highway Commission.
The project calls for 7.6 miles
of sand, asphalt and bituminous
concrete surface for surfacing
three sections of secondary roads
and one access road, and
resurfacing one section of
secondary road and streets in
Willow Woods.
The apparent low bid was
submitted by Dickerson, Inc., of
Monroe, and will be reviewed by
the State Highway Commission
when it meets in Winston-Salem
on October 1.
Completion date for the
Brunswick-New Hanover project
is set for December 15.
Brunswick Has
Low College
Student Rate
Are North Carolina High
Schools graduating more
students than in years before?
This and other pertinent
questions are answered in a
recent publication released by
the State Department of Public
Instruction and entitled “Follow
up Survey of North Carolina High
School Graduates, 1969.”
Of the 67,287 students
graduating from North Carolina
High Schools in 1969 (an increase
of 3.9 percent over 1968), the
percentage of those entering
college increased to 40.98 per
cent. Only 38.47 percent entered
college in 1968. In comparison to
the State average, 26.9 percent of
the 1969 graduates in Brunswick
county entered college.
Graduates who don’t enter
college proceed down a number
of paths. Some 28 percent of the
graduates enter the job market, a
percentage second only to the
number who attend college. 43.7
percent of Brunswick county’s
graduates took a job after
graduation.
A high percentage of 1969
graduates (16.8 percent) entered
a trade school. Many female
graduates entered business
schools, nursing schools,
stewardess schools, programing
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Lion Governor
To Be Speaker
District Governor John King
will be the honored guest at the
Thursday meeting of the Bolivia
Lions Club according to an
announcement by Johnny M.
King, president. 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 his term of office,
Governor King will visit all 40
clubs. This visit marks his first
official visit to the Bolivia Lions
Club. The subject of his message
to this active civic group will be
“concerned with the
Involvement of the Bolivia Lions
in worthwhile activities.
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.
Gives Warning
On Registering
Noting that Thursday and
Saturday of this week are the
last days to register for the
November General Election,
Brunswick County Republican
Chairman Thomas J. Harrelson
has reminded prospective voters
of his party’s offer of free
transportation to the registration
point in Bolivia.
Several weeks ago, Harrelson
charged the Democratic
leadership of the County Board
of Elections with jumping the
gun in ending precinct
registration and instituting
county-wide registration at a
single point—Bolivia—prior to
the January 1, 1970, deadline
set by a new state law.
“The Democratic scheme to
discourage registration of new
voters has succeeded,” Harrelson
said this week. “Registration has
been kept down—less than 50 to
date, compared with several
hundred last March.”
Harrelson urged all qualified
persons, regardless of party, to
register this week for the
November election—and for
those without transportation to
Bolivia to take advantage of the
Republican offer of free rides to
the registration point.
Those desiring such
transportation were asked to
contact Mrs. Kenneth Smith,
Southport; Mrs. C. Raymond
Babson, Freeland, or Mrs, Joe
Keiser, Leland.