THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
lYOLUME 42, , NO^4512 PAGES TODAY WEDNESDAY, MAY26, 1971 SOUTHPORT, N. c7 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY '
Sailing Ship Prepares To Dock
This is the Coast Guard Barque Eagle as she
approached the City Dock Tuesday where she is
moored for three days. The crowds along the
waterfront were impressed by the men aloft, who
were manning the rigging. A sturdy little tugboat
which is hidden from view was providing the
power for the docking operation. (Photo by
Spencer)
Bald Head Tax Value Up
The tax tab for Bald Head
Island will go up this year,
but not as much as had been
announced several weeks
ago.
Previously the island had
been on the tax books at a
$380,000 valuation, but
members of the Board of
County Commissioners took
the position that this figure
was unrealistic in view of the
$5.5-million reported sales
price. There was talk of
setting the valuation at this
figure.
The new valuation has been
set at $1.2 million.
Developers of the island
protested this action,
Isolated Duty
claiming that is was
discriminatory. As a result
Tax Supervisor James Jef
fries and E.J. Prevatte, at
torney for Carolina Cape
Fear Corporation, got
together to work out some
compatible solution which
was given official approval
this week by members of the
Board of County Com
missioners, sitting as the
Board of Equalization and
Review.
Various factors entered
into this compromise
agreement. One is the fact
that several thousand acres
of the island are claimed by
the State of North Carolina.
Another factor was a
developer’s discount,
something which has been
used previously by other
developers in Brunswick
County.
A spokesman for Carolina
Cape Fear Corporation stated
positively that development
plans will proceed according
to schedule, and as they do
increase values will result.
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Terry Sanford
Guest Speaker
Terry Sanford, president of
Duke University and former
governor of North Carolina,
will be the guest speaker at
Brunswick-Southport High
School graduation exercises
in Southportnext Wednesday.
In announcing that ex
governor Sanford had agreed
to address the largest
combined graduating class in
Southport history, Principal
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Sailing Ship Eagle Here;
Open For Visitors Today
An ocean-going sailing ship
spent last night in Southport
harbor and will remain here
until Friday, the first time in
many decades that this has
occurred in this historic
seaport.
This was the U.S. Coast
Guard Academy training ship
Eagle, whose officers are
members of the faculty at the
Coast Guard Academy at
New London, Conn., and
whose crew included 168
cadets. Also aboard are
members of the regular crew.
The ship is on a training
cruise in South Atlantic
waters and Southport is the
only port she will visit while
on this trip.
On hand to welcome the
visitors when the ship docked
about 11 o’clock Tuesday
morning were Mayor Lester
V. Lowe and other Southport
officials. The mayor went
aboard and presented a Key
to the City to Commander
Harold A. Paulsen, captain of
School Funds
‘Not Adequate’
One of the most important
aspects of a survey recently
conducted by the Division of
School Planning of the State
Department of Public In
struction of the Brunswick
County School System was
that of school finance.
Results of the study charges
.that local county financial
resources for public
education has historically
been totally inadequate to
provide the kind of
educational program
adequate to meet the needs of
all students in the school
system.
The following is the text of
a statement from the survey
relative to school finance in
the Brunswick County School
System:
“The financial input, if
planned and used properly, is
probably the one best single
determinant in a quality
program of education. It is
true that money alone will not
guarantee a good program of
instruction for students;
however, it is also true that if
all things are equal, more
funds buy more education.
Therefore, it is altogether
fitting and proper for the
citizens of Brunswick County
to be concerned with
providing adequate financial
support for the public schools
in order for education to be
provided at an adequate and
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DuPont Company
Plans Expansion
The Du Pont Company’s
Cape Fear Plant will be
expanded by the addition ot
facilities for the manufacture
of dimethyl terephthalate
(DMT), the major ingredient
of the “Dacron” polyester
fiber which is made here.
Time And Tide
It was May 28, 1936, and a couple of new tennis courts in
Franklin Square were the latest additions to the recreational
facilities of the community. Joe Jelks of Southport was to be a
member of the 140-member graduation class
at Wake Forest College. Good progress was reported on the
renovation of the old frame high school building in Franklin
Squire, now in the process of being made into a City Hall and
Community Center.
Mr. and Mrs. M.M. Hood and son had moved back to South
port from Bald Head Island; and Shallotte Trading Co. (Kir
by’s) had a special on ice cream freezers.
The May 28, 1941, edition of The Pilot carried the headline:
“Rural Electrification Program Six Years Old.” Members of
the N.C. Bird Club had held a meeting in Brunswick county and
had visited Orton, Battery Island and Bald Head Island, among
other places. Announcement had been made that Orton pond
would be open to the public, for a fee.
The late FDR had given up on his purpose to advance the
accepted date for Thanksgiving and had announced that
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Clarence E. Dickey, Plant
Manager, said construction
of the new unit will begin this
summer with initial
operation scheduled for early
1973. The multimillion dollar
expansion will add about 100
new jobs at the site, and
hiring to fill these openings
will begin in late 1972.
The DMT manufacturing
equipment is being designed
to avoid air or steam
pollution, Dickey said. En
vironmental control facilities
including a major waste
water treatment plant will be
built along with the DMT
manufacturing plant.
DMT is used by Du Pont in
the manufacture of “Mylar”
polyester film, “Cronar”
polyester photographic film
base, and “Reemay”
spunbounded sheet struc
tures, as well as “Dacron”
fibers. The DMT produced at
Cape Fear will be consumed
at the local plant or shipped
to other Du Pont facilities. Du
Pont currently manufactures
DMT at Gibbstown, New
Jersey, and Old Hickory,
Tennessee.
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the Eagle.
Visitors were permitted
aboard starting at three
o’clock, and this continued
until four o’clock. Between 4
o’clock and 6 o’clock a
reception was held on the
after deck far city and county
officials and other invited
guests. Last night the Coast
Guard Academy Cadets were
guests at a dance at the
Key To City
Commander Harold A. Paulsen, skipper of the
U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle, is shown here as
he is presented a Key to the City Tuesday by
Mayor Lester V. Lowe. (Photo by Spencer)
Drug Dangers
Told At School
High School students in
Southport were warned
Thursday that the use of
drugs, even marijuana, can
lead to the inability to get a
job and to the loss of the right
to vote and other privileges of
citizenship.
That word came from H. G.
Grohman, lieutenant
detective with the drug squad
of the New Hanover County
sheriff’s office and an Air
Force veteran. His visit to
Southport was arranged by
the Southport Lions Club,
members of which had heard
him describe the perils of the
drug traffic at a Leland Lions
Club meeting last winter.
Lt. Grohman told his young
listeners at a series of
meetings that it is wrong to
consider marijuana - or
“pot” - as a harmless drug.
Quoting patients at Lexington
and other hospitals for drug
addicts, he said marijuana is
a stepping stone to the use of
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Community Building, an
event for which Mrs. Dorothy
Gilbert, mayor pro-tem, was
in charge, assisted by Mrs.
Jean Kenney as chairman
and Mrs. Connie Young as co
chairman. Members of the
Junior Woman’s Club and
their husbands were
chaperones.
Today visitors have been
welcomed aboard during
the morning and afternoon,
from 9 to 12 and from 1 to 4,
and the same schedule will be
followed on Thursday. The
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Radio Station
Heart Award
Radio Station WVCB in
Shallotte will receive the
Willard G. Cole Award for its
outstanding efforts to reach
the public with “Heart News”
during the month of February
and throughout the year,
announced J. Dewey Dor
sett, Jr., president of the
North Carolina Heart
Association.
This award is presented to
outstanding broadcasters for
distinguished reporting on
cardiovascular diseases.
Named in honor of Willard
G. Cole, Pulitzer Prize
winning Tar Heel editor who
died of a heart attack in 1965,
the awards will be announced
Thursday at the 22nd annual
meeting and scientific
sessions of the North Carolina
Heart Association to be held
at the Convention Center in
Winston-Salem.
“Station managers A. Earl
Milliken and John G. Worrell
have devoted many hours of
time to Heart and it is with
their untiring efforts and
work that Heart in Brunswick
is a success each year, along
with the many other
dedicated workers
throughout our wonderful
county,” stated Mrs.
Freeman Hewett, president
of the local association.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Earl
Milliken will attend the
awards breakfast and receive
the award for WVCB-radio.
“Not Take A Message”
Mayor Lester V. Lowe, who is shown here as he mans the halyarc
U.S. Weather Bureau tower on the Garrison. He is using signal flags
out a welcome to the U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle. (Photo by Spend