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VOLUME 42 No. 12
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SOUTHPORT, N.C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1970
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Application To
Build Trestle
For Railroad
The Carolina Power and Light
Company of Raleigh has made
application for a Coast Guard
permit to construct a road and
railroad trestle across Nancys
Creek, approximately 1.5 miles
above the mouth of the creek in
Brunswick county, near
Southport.
Plans submitted for approval
are for a timber pile trestle
approximately 480 feet in length
having a vertical clearance of
12.0 feet above mean high water
and a horizontal clearance of
10.4 feet in the navigational
openings, with fill to be placed
at both ends of the trestle. The
fill is to be confined to land
elevations above mean high
water. Copies of the plans
showing the location and other
details of the work are attached
to this notice.
The purpose of this nonce is
to inform all who may be
interested. The decision as to
whether or not approval of
location and plans will be
granted will rest primarily upon
the effect of the proposed work
on navigation and on the human
environment. Pertinent factors
such as the effect on wildlife and
water-fowl refuges, public parks,
historic sites and recreation areas
will be considered in
determining whether or not it
would be in the best public
interest to grant the approval.
Protests or comments
concerning the proposed work
should be submitted in writing
to the Chief, Aids to Navigation
Branch, Fifth Coast Guard
District, 610 Federal Building,
Portsmouth, Virginia 23705 and
will be received through October
29.
Making Plans
For Road Meet
The Conference Committe has
announced the agenda for the
East Coast Conference in Myrtle
Beach, October 19.
Citizen groups and local public
officials along the east coast are
promoting the conference in
support of a Coastal Corridor
Freeway.
There is a strong possibility
that the highway would be routed
through Brunswick County.
County.
The Conference will be a
one-day session. It is designed to
present testimony pointing up to
the need for a coastal north-south
highway connecting the Norfolk,
Virginia, and Savannah, Georgia,
areas. Such a highway would
influence economic activity to
the north and south of the
highway area and will have
untold effect on coastal North
and South Carolina.
A resolution to Congress and
the Department of
Transportation will be adopted.
Dr. Leo W. Jenkins, president
of East Carolina University in
Greenville, will be the moderator
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Construction At CP&L Plant
.This was the scene this week at the Carolina Power
and Light Co. nuclear generating plant near Southport
where employees of Brown-Root Corporation still are
ahead of schedule in the construction of this $300
million installation. Ideal weather conditions have
prevailed during the past few weeks to help oper
ations. (Photo by Spencer)
CP&L Files For
Rate Increase
Carolina Power & Light
Company has filed with the
Federal Power Commission for
an increase in the rate it charges
municipalities and electric
membership corporations which
buy power for resale.
Based on 1969 operations, the
proposed increase would yield
CP&L approximately 32 percent
more revenue from its sales to
wholesale cutomers.
Shearon Harris, president of
CP&L, said the company is
seeking a rate that would result
in wholesale customers paying
their proportionate share of the
utility’s total cost of providing
electric service.
He noted that requests for a
general rate increase of ap
proximately 14 percent on ser
vice to the company’s retail
customers are pending before
state regulatory commissions.
Harris emphasized that in
flationary pressures have made
it essential for CP&L to increase
rates.
“Fuel costs have skyrocketed
during the last year and continue
to rise,” he declared. “New
facilities which are essential to
meet future power needs are
more expensive to construct, and
the cost of money to finance
construction has been at record
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Board Ready For
Opening Of Bids
At their meeting here Monday
night members of the Brunswick
County Board of Education
discussed plans for the three
consolidated high schools for
which construction bids will be
opened next Wednesday. It was
agreed that everything is in
readiness for acceptance of the
bids if they fall within financial
estimates.
Earlier bids for construction of
the three schools were rejected
because they exceeded available
funds. Alteration of plans by the
architect followed, and con
tractors now are considering
plans which it is believed will be
coverd by available school
building funds.
The board met in regular
session on Monday and heard
Francis Smith, auditor, reviewall
schools’ financial reports for the
1969-70 school year.
The following resignations
were accepted: Miss Billie
Foster, teacher Shallotte High
School; Mrs. Edna R. Price, Title
I bookkeeDer-secretarv.
Teaching contracts for the 1970
71 school year were approved for
Shallotte—William D. Chapman;
Ronald P. Sellers; Southport—
Elizabeth J. Dean; Waccamaw—
Clifton A. Jones.
The following substitute
teachers were approved:
B.C.H.S.—Mrs. Barbara
McKenzie Gore, Mrs. Elizabeth
J. Dean, Mrs. Shirley Evans;
Lincoln—Mrs. Peggy Limos,
Mrs. Emelie Freeman Todd,
Mrs. Narine Russ; Shallotte—
Mrs. Magdeline Bennett, Mrs.
Louise Holden, Mrs. Estelle
Hudson, Mrs. Luerevia E. Moses,
Mrs. Zebulon Reed, Mr. Henry
Register, Frank Salmon, Miss
Mary A. Slade, Mrs. Sylvia
Tripp, Mrs. Monnie Williams,
Mrs. Miriam Speicher, Mrs.
Catherine Benton, Frederick
Mintz; Southport—Mrs.
Elizabeth J. Dean.
The following teacher aides
were approved to be used for
substitutes Bolivia-Mrs. Myrtle
Carroll, Mrs. Cora Louise
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Long Beach Qualifies
For Flood Insurance
Long Beach has qualified for
emergency flood insurance,
according to the North Carolina
Department of Air and Water
Resources.
The state department also
reported that Yaupon Beach is
among other North Carolina
municipalities that have shown
Chairman Sets
Top Draft No.
H.A. Livingston, Chairman ot
the Brunswick County Local
Draft Board 10, announced this
week that Random Sequence
Number 176 is the highest lottery
number reached by the local
board so far this year.
Livingston also said that the
local board's draft calls for the
remainder of 11)70 probably can
be filled without going beyond
number 176, but this will not
definitely be known until
sometime in November when the
local board’s induction call for
December is received from State
Headquarters.
The local board spokesman
also said that in compliance with
the recently announced White
House Executive Order, all
registrants of Local Board 10 who
are in Class I-A or Class 1-A-0 on
December 31, 1970, and who hold
a lottery number equal to or
lower than the highest number
reached by the board during 1970,
but who, for any reason, are not
issued orders to report for in
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an interest in qualifying for the
program.
The emergency flood
insurance program, adninistered
by the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban
Development, has been
established as an interim
measure pending the
qualification of communities
under the regular program
authorized by the National
Flood Insurance Act of 1968.
Under the regular program, an
actuarial rate-making study for a
community must have been
completed for that community
to become eligible for flood
insurance. Such a study usually
takes six to eight months. The
emergency program is designed
to provide limited coverage at
federally-subsidized rates until
acturial studies are completed.
The Flood Insurance Act
limits Federal financial disaster
aid for flood losses incurred by
property owners in an eligible
community who fail to buy
flood insurance.
Under the emergency program,
insurance at federally subsidized
premium rates may be purchased
in amounts up to SI7.500 for
single-family homes and up to
$30,000 for two-to four-family
homes. On structures, rates will
range from 40 to 50 cents per
SI00 for insurance, depending
on the value of the structure.
Contents may be insured up to
55,000, with rates ranging from
50 to 60 cents per SI00 of
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And Tide
A headline in The Pilot for October 2,1935, reported that the first
degree murder trial of Dillon Jenrette would begin on the following
Monday with Judge Clawson Williams presiding. Another headline
reported that U.L. Rourk had resigned from the Board of Education.
Col. Earl I. Brown, Division Chief for the U.S. Army Engineers, was
a visitor in Southport aboard the engineer’s yacht Falcon.
Caption beneath a front page picture of Fort Johnson reported
that this building had been turned over to the Bureau of
Lighthouses. “Plenty Of Good Mules and Hackney Wagons” were
advertised by a Whiteville livestock dealer; Mrs. Irma Carr had been
honored at a surprise birthday party given in her honor at Clear Lake
Inn by Mrs. J.W. Ruark; and the Southport Woman’s Club was
planning to present “The Dixie Minstrel” later in the month.
A robber who had held up Hobson Kirby, Shallotte merchant, got
nothing for his trouble but experience according to a report of the
incident in The Pilot for October 2, 1940. There was a spectacular
display of pulchritude on the front page with a leggy young miss
shown in three artistic attitudes of shark hunting—from a menhaden
boat with a rifle, no less. The Outdoor Writers of America had
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insurance.
For small business coverage,
federally-subsidized premium
rates will also be graduated: SO
cents per $100 for properties
valued at $60,000 or more.
Contents may be insured at $1
per $100 of insurance up to
$85,000 maximum.
Municipalities besides Long
Beach that have qualified included
Greensboro, Franklin and
Wrightsville Beach, while other
towns that have expressed
interest are Charlotte, Durham,
Asheville, Winston-Salem and
Carolina Beach.
Jaycee Horse
Show Coming
The 1970 Southport Jaycees’
Western Horse Show will be held
at 1 p.m., Sunday, October 18.
There will be 18 events
consisting of western pleasure
classes and western games. Grace
and obedience will be judged in
pleasure classes, while speed and
accuracy will determine the
winners of western games.
The western pickup event
involves two men, one stationed
between barrels to picked up by
the other on horseback.
In order to win he egg and
spoon class, the rider must
outlast his competitors by
retaining possession of an egg
held in a spoon while having his
horse obey the instructions of
the ring master. The barrel crawl
is a timed event in which the
rider must dismount, crawl
through a barrel and then
remount.
The apple bobbing event, for
13-year-olds and under, will give
the youngsters who don’t have a
horse the opportunity to win a
cash prize dong with a blue
ribbon.
The winner of the costume
class will be so judged because of
the attire of both horse and
rider.
Refreshments of all kinds will
be on hand—soft drinks, hot
dogs, pop corn, candied apples
and cotton candy. The parking
area is large and rest rooms will
be available.
Admission price for spectators
is $1 for adults and 50 cents for
children under 13. All the
proceeds from the show will be
used by the Southport Jaycees
for community development and
improvement.
Terminal Personnel
Honored For Service
Both military and civilian
personnel assigned to the
Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny
Point, have been cited by the
Commander, Military Traffic
Management and Terminal
Service and the Commander,
Eastern Area, Military Traffic
Management and Terminal
Serivce for service performed
prior to and during Operation
Chase.
Operation Chase (Cut Holes
And Sink ’Em) involved the
loading of 418 concrete and steel
clad vaults containing obsolete
chemical munitions at the An
niston and Blue Grass Army
Depots following which these
vaults were transported by rail to
the Military Ocean Terminal,
Sunny Point and loaded aboard a
vessel hulk which was then towed
to sea and scuttled some 286
miles off the Florida coast
For his performance of duty
during the Operation, Colonel
Robert D. Reid, the Sunny Point
Commander, received the
Meritorious Service Medal. The
citation accompanying the medal
reads as follows:
“Colonel Robert D. Reid,
Transportation Corps, United
States Army, distinguished
himself by outstanding
meritorious achievement in the
planning, preparation for and
execution of Phase Cl of
Operation CHASE (the disposal
of obsolete nerve agents at sea)
at the Military Ocean Terminal,
Sunny Point, Southport, North
Carolina, from 11 June to 16
August 1970. Phase II involved
the receipt at the terminal of 418
concrete and steel vaults con
taining nerve agent rockets and
the loading of the vaults aboard a
hulk, which was towed to see
and sunk. Colonel Reid, as
Commander, Military Ocean
Terminal, Sunny Point, was
responsible for all personnel and
activities involved in the project
at the terminal. He demonstrated
outstanding leadership and
initiative in successfully planning
and executing this complex,
dangerous and joint operation
despite adverse conditions.
Colonel Reid dealt expeditiously
and competently with problems
which arose from unique security
requirements, delicate public
relations considerations, union
attitudes, the need for close
operational coordination with the
United States Navy, and
numerous other factors. Colonel
Reid’s professional competence,
sound judgement, and firm
direction of operations were the
key factors in the successful
completion of this important
mission and reflect great credit
upon himself, the Military Traffic
Management and Terminal
Service, and the United States
Army.”
Terminal personnel who
received Certificates of
Achievement from the Com
mander, DAMTMTS, for their
role in Operation Chase were
Lieut. Col. Jack Biggerstaff,
MOTSU Deputy Commander;
Lieut. Col. James D. Lester,
Director of Operations; Major
Oscar G. Oaks, Contracting
Officer’s Representative
(stevedore); Major Dan G.
Shellabarger and Captain John
P. Stobie, assistants to the
Director of Operations; Captain
William R. Cousins and 2nd
Lieut. Robert K. Kindsey, Cargo
Operations Division; Master Sgt.
Loren B. Wray, Operations
Directorate; Russell P. Hewlett,
Director of Administration;
Andrew H. Lennon, Director,
USASTRATCOM Activity;
Robert A. Jones, Chief, Engineer
Division; Leslie R. Bellows,
Plans Officer and Information
Officer; James W. Evans and
James A. Aldridge, Engineer
Divison; Richard E. Farmer and
Raymond G. Spencer, Equip
ment Divison; and Lewis B.
Harvell, Procurement Office.
The Certificates of Appreciation
read as follows:
“This certificate is presented
for your outstanding per
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One Party Phone
Service Objective
On-party telephone service is
coming to rural Burnswick
County.
Reports at the annual meeting
of Atlantic Telephone Company
Friday night indicate that
progress is being made in he
conversion to a one-party
telephone system.
The cooperative obtained a
$1,465,000 loan from REA last
Homecoming At
Ocean View
Annual Homecoming will be
held at Ocean View United
^Methodist Church, Yaupon
Beach, on Sunday, with Church
School at 9:45 a.m. followed by
worship service at 11 a.m.
The Rev. M.W. Warren, Jr. will
deliver the message. Afterwards
a picnic lunch will be served on
the grounds.
The Rev. Warren and members
of the Church extend an
invitation to all former
ministers, members and friends
to join them for this
homecoming. Among those
expected to attend are the
founder and first pastor of
Ocean View Church, the Rev.
L.D. Hayman and Mrs. Hayman
of Methodist Retirement Home,
Durham; and former pastor, the
Rev. J.S. Huggins and Mrs.
Huggins of Harrells.
In preparation for this yearly
event, there will be a clean-up
and picnic at the church on
Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m. All
parents and children are urged to
come and help clean and
beautify the church building and
grounds, and to renew a good
spirit among all the homecoming
occasion.
January to finance the first part
of the program. The Bolivia and
Seaside service areas will be the
first served by the one-party
system, according to W.E.
Bellamy, Jr., who is general
manager of the cooperative.
Other exchanges are at Holden
Beach, Longwood and Shallotte,
and these areas will be converted
as soon as money and equipment
are available for the project.
The Bolivia exchange is being
expanded, Bellamy said, and in
the Seaside service area there is a
new exchange under
construction that will serve the
Ocean Isle Beach, Sunset Beach
and Calabash areas.
The co-op, which has a
membership of 3,500, serves all
of Brunswick County except the
Southport and Leland areas.
Bellamy said the organization
had grown by about 300
subscribers a year until this past
year, when the membership
increased by 400.
Harry Mintz of Shallotte,
president of the organization,
said application has been made
for an additional $1,415,000
loan to complete the upgrading
program, but he noted REA has
many more loan applications on
hand than it can handle with
present funds.
He noted it would be cheaper
for the co-op if it could obtain
the money when the present
work program is completed and
go ahead with the remainder of
the job before price increases
force costs even higher.
Bellamy told the membership
at the annual meeting that due
to the upgrading, many numbers
will have to be changed in the
near future.
The new exchange is costing
about $300,000, Bellamy said.
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Speaker At Telephone Meeting
Dr. Kermit Traylor was the speaker Friday night at the 13th Annual meeting
the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation at Shallotte. In the background
officers and members of the board of directors.