THE STATE PORT PILOT
Librarian At
Leland Honors
Mrs. Hilda Wilson Town
send, a Wilmington resident
and Leland High School
librarian, has been
nominated as a director ot the
North Carolina Association of
School Libraries for a four
year term, with election
slated during the November
biennial meeting in Winston
Salem.
For seven years she was a
teacher • librarian at Leland
High School, and this year is
serving there as the school’s
first fulltime librarian.
Mrs. Townsend is a native
of Columbus County and
taught there for several years
after graduating from
Meredith College in
Raleigh in 1945.
She holds a bachelor of arts
degree in English with
related fields in hiBtory,
French and Greek.
Winner of the 1970 NCASL
|500 scholarship, she spent
both sessions last summer on
the campus of East Carolina
University working toward
certification in library
science and is currently
enrolled in the graduate
school there to earn the
Master of library Science
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Honors For
Heart Staff
Cecil Register, Mrs. Willie
D. Ward and Kenneth Hewett
are among selections from
over 100,000 North Carolina
Heart Volunteers who will
receive an award for out
standing service at the North
Carolina Heart Association’s
22nd Annual Meeting in
Winston-Salem, May 26-27.
Mrs. J. Dewey Dor sett, Jr.,
wife of the President of the
Association, will make the
presentations at the annual
Awards Breakfast to be held
May 27 in honor of the win
ners.
Cecil Register has served
as the Brunswick County
Heart treasurer for a four
years and has compiled
records for the Heart
Association each year with
up-to-date facts and figures
for reporting any moment the
N.C. or American Heart
Association might call him
This is Mrs. Ward’s first
year as Rural Heart Chair
man, but she has done “a
terrific job and a job well
done,” said Mrs. Freeman
Hewett, president of the
Association. “She is well
deserving in her capacity as
the Rural Chairman.”
And this also is Kenneth’s
first year in the field of Public
Education chairman. He had
some films on “Heart” for
the recent first aid classes at
be rescue building, and has
distributed heart information
in the Post Office and Public
Library for the public’s
convenience. He also wrote
the Heart Hews for the local
news media and has urged
many folks to honor the
memory of a relative, friend
or business associate by
contributing to the fight
against heart disease.
“To make a memorial gift,
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Food Stamp
Use Rising
Food stamp users in
Brunswick County received
$40,392 bonus from the
federal government in April,
according to information
received from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
Food and Nutrition Service
field office in Wilmington.
According to the monthly
report, 2,355 persons in 652
Brunswick families received
aid during April. Users got
$57,825 worth of stamps but
paid only $17,433 for the
coupons, leaving the $40,000
bonus to be paid by die
USDA.
The food stamps are issued
to families with limited in
comes who are certified by
the Department of Social
Services. The cost of the
coupons to each family is
based on its income and the
number in the family.
Nature Paintings By Area Artists
these area artists are pictured left to right as
are their paintings, respectively, of indigenous
plants that may be seen along the Brunswick
Town Nature Trail: Mrs. Pearl C. Wells (par
tridgeberry, moth mullen, button bush); Mrs.
Bette Legett (pitcher plant, Venus fly trap,
arrowhead), Mrs. Toni Oliver (cattail, loblolly
bay, beauty berry); and Mrs. Esther W. Cotton
(yaupon, sparkleberry, Hercules club). The
paintings, which are done in acrylics on masonite
pannels, will be permanently installed in an
exterior exhibits case near the Nature Trail
marker and starting point. (Brunswick Town
photo)
County Schools Surveyed
Members of the Brunswick
County Board of Education
met jointly with the Board of
County Commissioners last
Monday afternoon.
Dr. J.L. Pierce, Director,
Division of School Planning
and Lacy M. Presnell,
Educational Consultant,
Division of School Planning,
presented to the two boards
findings of a comprehensive
system-wide school survey
conducted in March. The
survey was under the
supervision of N.C. Division
of School Planning.
The purpose of the study
was to determine the
possibility for improvement
Republican Rally
To Hear Broyhill
Congressman James T.
Broyhill will speak Friday
night at a $10-per plate
Republican fund raising
Rally at Chez Steak at
Yaupon Beach. The meeting
is scheduled for 6:30 o’clock
with a fellowship hour
preceeding the steak dinner.
Congressman Broyhill
presently is serving his fifth
term as Representative from
the Ninth District. He is
recognized as an outstanding
leader of the Republican
party in North Carolina and
has prominently
mentioned as a possible
candidate for governor in the
1972 general election.
Congressman Broyhill is a
native of Lenoir, having been
born there in 1927, attended
public schools there, and in
1950 was awarded his B.S.
degree in Business Ad
ministration from the
University of North Carolina.
Prior to being elected to
Congress he was an executive
with the firm of Broyhill
Furniture Industries of
Lenoir, being in charge of
manufacturing and ad
ministration for that firm.
As a businessman he has
been active in civic affairs,
having served two terms as
president of the Lenoir
Chamber of Commerce and
two terms as a board
member of that organization
He was active in the North
Carolina Development
Association and served as
vice-chairman of the Hard
wood Research Council. Also
he was a member of the
Board of the North Carolina
Forestry Association and in
1957 was named by the local
Lenoir Chamber of Com
merce as the “Young Man of
the Year.” He is an active
member of the First Baptist
Church of Lenoir, is a Mason
and a member of the Oasis
Temple of Shriners.
He was elected to the 88th
Congress in November of
1962, being the first
Republican to serve the 9th
District since 1910. He is
presently serving his 5th
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BROYHILL
and submit recom
mendations for short and long
range improvement of public
education with special em
phasis upon the organization
and facilities of the.
elementary schools. Dr.
Pierce and Mr. Presnell
stressed patterns of
population growth, school
finance and tax rates, school
organizations and population,
school facilities and main
tenance of plants,
professional staff and
educational progress.
A six-eight year plan for
school organization was
presented along with
recommendations for tax
levies for capital outlay, debt
service, and current expense
to prove these improvements
and expansions for facilities
and educational programs.
The following teacher
resignations were accepted:
Elizabeth Swain, Lincoln;
Dudley Lowe and Esther D.
Suggs, Shallotte; and Palmer
D. Suggs, Waccamaw. A
Teaching contract for Bar
bara Yount at Lincoln School
was approved.
Representatives from the
Union School PTA appeared
before the board seeking
financial assistance for
construction of a covered
walkway from the main
building to the cafeteria. The
board requested the group to
receive cost estimates from
contractors and inform the
board of bids. Action is to
occur after information has
been presented.
The board discussed the
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Time And Tide
There was a front page picture of the late Dorothy Bell,
Southport girl in The Pilot for May 13,1936. She had received a
levy of student honors at High Point College, where she was a
member of the junior class. Commencement programs were in
progress in Brunswick county, and as a feature of the closing
exercises in Southport, Dan Walker had won the declamation
contest with his rendition of “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me
Harry Robinson has sold enough radios to win a trip to Cuba;
an Alabama man had reported theft of his automobile by a man
he had befriended by giving him a ride; and the Southport High
School Glee Club was planning a variety show.
Commencement speakers at Shallotte High School back in
1941 were Ernest E. Parker, Jr., and Roderick Bellamy,
valedictorian and salutatorian of their class that year Their
photos appeared on page 1 of The Pilot in the May 14 issue The
late J.N. Coburn, president of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust
Co., had been elected president of the N.C. Banker’s
Association, and his picture also was on the front page.
Waterspouts had been visible offshore from Southport during
a period of freakish weather the day before publication; the
late W.B. Keziah had written a guest column for The
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Man Drowns
In Cape Fear
The body of Andrew H.
Grab has been recovered
from the Cape Fear River
near Sunny Point where he
drowned Wednesday night.
Grab and another man
went walking along the river
bank, spied a raft and went
out on the river at Sunny
Point, said Coroner Lowell
Bennett.
Bennett said Joseph D.
Cadden, 21, accompanied
Grab. Cadden told officers
the pair walked along the
river’s edge and saw the raft
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County To Separate
Under District Plan
Brunswick and Columbus
counties will be divorced
from the House of
Representatives district that
they have been sharing if the
recommended map devised
by the full House
Redistricting Committee is
approved.
Tuesday morning the
committee met and finally
agreed on the make-up of
House districts which will
satisfy high court rulings that
each Representative must
represent approximately the
same number of constituents.
The proposed map has
Columbus, Bladen and
Sampson comprising one
district with three
representatives; Brunswick
and Pender have been
coupled to form another
district with one represen
Armed Forces
Day Saturday
The Military Ocean Ter
minal at Sunny Point will
hold open house on Armed
Forces Day, Saturday.
Visiting hours will be from 10
a.m. until 4 p.m.
Upon arrival at Sunny
Point, visitors will be briefed
on the operation of the ter
minal followed by a guided
tour of the operational area.
During the tour visitors will
be permitted to observe such
terminal features as the rail
classification yard, rail
holding yards, truck holding
yards, and the wharves.
Demonstrations of the
terminal’s firefighting
capability will be conducted
at a wharf and also at the fire
station.
Athletic contests will be
conducted at Taylor Field,
Southport, from 11 a.m. to 1
P-m. with youngsters from
the community competing for
various awards.
A bus will also be on hand
at Taylor Field to transport
personnel who desire to be
taken on a tour of Sunny
Point.
Terminal Hosts
Special Training
The Senior Army Reserve
Unit from Mobile and
Baldwin Counties, Alabama,
is currently undergoing ra
the-job training at Military
Ocean Terminal at Sunny
Point. The 1184th United
States Army Terminal Unit
arrived at Sunny Point on
May 2 and will complete their
Annual Training on May 15.
Col. Alton R. Brown, Jr., a
Mobile attorney, commands
the 22-man unit. The 1184th
has won many awards in
cluding the National Reserve
Officer’s Association Award
for the Outstanding Small,
Army Reserve Unit in the
Continental United States
Army for Training Year 1968.
Members of the Unit are
assisting and training in such
areas as the Financial
Management and Budget
Offices, the Adjutant
Division, the Civilian Per
sonnel Office, the Security
and Surveillance Divisions,
and the Cargo and Freight
Traffic Divisions. Other
assignments are in the
Electonic Accounting
Machine Division, the Con
tracting Office, the Engineer
Division, the Fire protection
Branch, and the Harbor Craft
Section.
In addition to working with
their civilian and military
counterparts, the 1184th has
been asked to supply support
and assistance to improve
methods of administration
and operation at the ter
minal.
Co., Thomas G. Haake,
commander at Sunny Point, !
>ias asked the 1184th to give *
him an unbiased and ob- t
jective operational
evaluation of his
organization.
Staff personnel of the 1184th
will first familiarize them
selves with the duties
perfomed in the staff sections
to which they are assigned.
Following this, an objective
and constructive evaluation
of the operational efficiency
and performance will be
incorporated in a report to be
submitted to the Terminal
Commander prior to the
unit’s departure so that
corrective action can be
accomplished were in
dicated.
tative.
After the committee ap
proval Tuesday morning, the
bill was sent to the floor of the
House of Representatives. If
this body sanctions it, the bill
then will be sent to the
Senate.
Rep. R.C. Soles, Jr., ad
mitted disappointment that
the first choices of the
Brunswick and Columbus
Democratic executive
committees were not adopted
by the House of Redistricting
Committee.
“At least the second
choices of each of the
counties’ executive com
mittees were accepted,” Rep.
Soles said.
The Brunswick Democratic
executive committee had as
its first choice a district
composed of Brunswick,
Columbus and Pender with
two representatives.
Columbus County’s
Democratic executive
committee preferred to have
Columbus as a district in
itself with one represen
tative.
If the plan whereby a
district is formed with
Columbus, Bladen and
Sampson as a three
representative district, Soles
said he would work toward
having each of the three seats
numbered, whereby a can
didate would run for a
specific seat (No. 1, No. 2, or
No. 3).
Rep. Soles said he worked
toward establishing districts
that would have complied
with the first choices of both
of his counties. “From the
beginning, however, we
realized that this would be
virtually impossible because
there were some smaller
counties that had to be an
nexed to other counties,” he
commented.
Fisheries Get
Help From Bill
Two bills introduced this
week in the State Legislature
by Representative R.C. Soles
will give a boost to separate
phases of activities in
Brunswick County under the
jurisdiction of the Com
mercial and Sports Fishing
Division of the Department of
Conservation & Develop
ment.
Representative Soles, who
is a Democrat and whose
home is in Columbus County,
said that he would ask
Representative Thomas
Harrelson, Republican
member from Brunswick
County, to sign these bills
with him.
The first of these would call
for an appropriation of
$136,500 to provide certain
additional facilities for die
building now under con
struction at the Southport
Boat Harbor. Text of this bill
follows:
A bill to be entitled An Act
to Appropriate Additional
Funds for the Division of
Commercial and Sports
Fisheries Research Facilities
at Southport.
“The General Assembly of
North Carolina do enact:
“Section 1. There is hereby
appropriated from the
General Fund the additional
sum of $136,500 to the Division
of Commercial and Sports
Fisheries to increase its
research facilities at South
port by adding thereto the
following structures and
items: boat access channel,
concrete pier, dry laboratory
space, wet laboratory space,
sheltered laboratory space,
laboratory fixtures and
nonmovable equipment,
movable laboratory equip
ment, maintenance and
supply building and asphalt
paving.
"Sec. 2. This act shall
become effective upon
ratification."
The second is a bill to be
entitled “An Act to Provide
Additional Appropriations to
the Division of Commercial
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Juniors Push
Homemade Ste
Brunswick Stew will be the
patron for the Junior
Woman’s Club’s Fourth of
July Arts Festival.
Club members will prepare
and sell the homemade stew
on May 22 to help make ex
penses and Purchase Award
money for the 1971 Show.
The Brunswick Stew will be
ready on Saturday morning,
May 22, at 10 o’clock in South
port at B & D Fabrics and on
the beach at the Red and
White Store. Club members
will be on duty to dish up the
stew for those who wish to
bring their own containers for
$1.75 per quart. With the
container furnished the stew
will cost $1.90 per quart.
As the stew will be made
fresh on Friday it will be just
right for freezing or eating.
Junior Woman’s Club
members suggest that every
one take home some for the
freezer to serve during the
rushed days of the Fourth of
July Festival.
FTepaid orders may be
made with any member of the
Junior Woman’s Club or with
Mrs. Judy Wiggs 278-5202 or
Mrs. Beth Sell 457-6520. Rain
or shine, Brunswick Stew will
be served on May 22 for the
benefit of the Arts Festival.
New Mayor And Board Members
Lowe if shown presiding over his first session of the South
K)r\®°^rti °j Aldermen following swearing - in ceremonies at the City Hall
ast Wednesday. In the left foreground is J Harold Davis, and identifiable on
he right are Mrs. Dorothy R. Gilbert and A1 Martin. on