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VOLUME 43
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
NUMBER 12 WPAGESTODAY^ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13,1971 SOUTHPORT, N. C. 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Work On New Jail
This is the new Brunswick County jail in South
port where work is progressing on this modern
facility. In the background is the two - story
Brunswick County jail which will be abandoned
when the new building has been completed.
(Photo by Spencer)
Island Promised High-Level Bridge
A one-way bridge over the
intracoastal waterway on the
Beach Road near Southport
was opened to traffic Friday
.-.afternoon bringing relief
to the crisis brought on when
a barge crashed into the
drawbridge at that location
on September 7.
During the intervening
period residents of Oak
Island had been cut off from
the mainland except for ferry
traffic and a smallboat
shuttle service for
passengers at the site of the
demolished bridge. There
were periods when fuel and
certain supplies were com
pletely depleted, and only the
Rip Howard
Joins Firm
The president of Cameron
Brown Company has an
nounced that Jesse Wayne
(Rip) Howard has joined the
firm under its management
training program.
: Howard will be training in
Cameron - Brown’s Resi
dential Production office in
Fayetteville.
A Southport native, Rip
- graduated from East
Carolina University with a BS
degree in business ad
ministration.
Prior to his employment
with Cameron-Brown, he
taught school for five months.
He has also served on active
duty aboard the U.S.S.
Putnam with the United
States Navy.
His wife is the former
Dudley Barbee of Yaupon
, Beach.
A Raleigh-based mortgage
; banking firm, Cameron
Brown Company operates in
eight states and Washington,
D.C.
RIP HOWARD
week before there had
been much uneasiness on the
part of residents of Long
Beach, Yaupon Beach and
Caswell Beach as Hurricane
Ginger posed a threat to this
section of the North Carolina
coast.
Restoration of bridge
traffic on this date
represented a major ac
complishment on the part of
State Highway Commission
forces who had been charged
by Governor Bob Scott to deal
with this emergency as ex
peditiously as possible. It had
been estimated that
Cause Found
In Joye Death
A Wilmington black man
has been bound over to
Superior Court on charges of
murder in the shooting death
of a former Southport
resident.
Daniel J. Joye was killed
October 4 in Wilmington
following a prolonged dispute
with his neighbor, William
McGhee. McGhee reportedly
surrendered to the
Wilmington Police Depart
ment, claiming that he shot
Joye in self-defense.
The shooting occurred
during a time of racial ten
sion in Wilmington, but
officials said the disorders
had nothing to do with Joye’s
death.
Probable cause for the
murder charge was found
Thursday in Wilmington
District Court by Judge
Gilbert Burnett. There was
no bond set by the court.
In testimony during the
preliminary hearing, a
witness said she went to
McGhee’s home and saw him
with a rifle. He reportedly
told her he’d had enough of
Joye’s threats to his family
and himself, and that he was
going to do something about
it.
The witness, Mrs. Betty
Tarkington, said McGhee
went to the front of his house,
the rifle still in hand, and she
saw Joye on his front proch
with a pistol. She reported
that shots were fired and
Joye fell.
Joye, a white man repor
tedly died from a bullet
wound in the abdomen.
November 1 was the earliest
date this replacement bridge
could go into operation, and
SHC forces beat this deadline
by more than three weeks.
As a matter of fact, the SHC
is the one state agency which
had consistently been praised
by island residents during
this work in setting up ferry
operations, at one time
employing the use of four
vessels, and the shuttle
service had earned praise for
doing everything they could
to help relieve the
emergency.
Division Engineer Floyd
Bass had shown up at the
accident scene before day on
the morning it occurred and
remained on duty throughout
the day. Hugh Salter, in
charge of ferry service for
the SHC, worked to expedite
movement of vehicular
traffic on and off the island,
pot to mention the separate
transportation facilities set
up for the more than 200
school children on the island.
The present bridge has a
center section which is built
on a barge. This permits the
span to be opened to allow
passage of intracoastal
waterway traffic. It is too
narrow for cars to pass, and
an electric signal wUl be used
to control one-way traffic
flow.
This bridge is not intended
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ESEA Has I
pact On Schools
Many times each year local
and area newspapers
reporting on school activities
and programs make
reference to ESEA, Title I.
Few people not directly
associated with public
education realize the im
portance of this federally
funded program to the local
school systems.
From the time of its
passage by the U.S. Congress
in 1965, the Elementary and
Secondary Act (ESEA) has
had as its goal the upgrading
and assisting of educationally
deprived children throughout
the nation. Local authorities
are given considerable
latitude in determining the
type of program that will best
achieve this end. The
teachers, principals, general
supervisors, parents and
ESEA staff have determined
that the most pressing need of
educationally deprived
children in Brunswick County
is in the area of language
arts, which includes reading,
spelling, and written and oral
communications.
In order to qualify for
special assistance under Title
I, a child must be reading in
the lower 25th percentile as
indicated by standardized
tests. Teacher judgement and
the child’s past performance
are also primary factors in
determining who may
qualify. The economic status
of the child’s family is not
considered in the deter
mination of who shall receive
aid. Participants in the Title I
program during the 1970-71
school year numbered 1670 at
a cost of approximately
1375,102.84.
Under the direction of Mrs.
France B. Stone, Assistant
Superintendent in charge of
Federal Programs, Title I
has sought to remove the
Time And Tide
Thirty -five years ago this week a new bus had been placed
into service by the W.B. & S. It was a long, sleek - looking sedan
by Chevrolet — which appeared ten years ahead of lagging
automotive design. There had been a raise in bid for Bald Head
Island, with the price resting at $4,575 at a tax sale.
A shrimp truck had backed into a cedar tree at the Whittlers
Bench and had chipped away about one-half the limbs of this
famous landmark. Goshen Baptist Church was host to the
annual Brunswick Baptist Association; and at the local theatre
die latest Shirley Temple picture, “Dimples,” was playing.
The Pilot for October 15,1941, announced approval of a USO
Hut for Southport, a project slated to cost $22,000. There was
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reading deficiencies of
participating children
through a variety of activities.
The instructional program
with supportive services
make up the overall Title I
project. The instructional
services are supervised by a
reading coordinator for the
project. Her primary duties
are to insure that special
reading materials are
provided for educationally
deprived children and to
provide assistance to those
teachers who are working
with these children.
One of the most notable
aspects of Title I is the
library services program.
Since 1966 over 15,000
volumes have been added to
the eight school libraries in
Brunswick County. In ad
dition to book purchases,
Title I now pays the salaries
of eight school librarians and
a library supervisor. The
regular library services are
supplemented by the addition
of SRA Reading Laboratories
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Powell Bill Money For
County Totals $157,000
The Brunswick County
developments of Boiling
Spring Lakes and Long Beach
have received more than
$100,000 in Powell Bill funds,
money distributed from the
state collection of gasoline
taxes.
Next year, however, the
allotment for the two sub
divided communities will
remain approximately the
same, while other towns in
the county should receive
about twice as much as this
year.
The funds have been
distributed on the basis of 50
percent based on a
municipality’s population
and 50 percent based on the
street mileage which is not a
part of the state highway
system. Next year, though,
the distribution will be made
on the basis of 75 percent
population and 25 percent
road mileage. This will keep
the funds for Boiling Spring
Lakes and Long Beach about
the same as this year, while
the other towns will profit
from an increase form one
half to a full cent in tax
money available for
disbursement.
The total paid in North
Carolina under provisions of
the Powell Bill was $12.5
million, up from the $11.9
million paid last year.
Boiling Spring Lakes and
Long Beach, both with small
populations, led Brunswick
County towns in the receipt of
Powell Bill money. Boiling
Spring Lakes, with a
population of only 245,
receives $57,603.42 because of
the 92.91 miles of roads inside
the town limits.
Long Beach, with most of
Harold Davis
On Committee
Republican State Chair
man Jim Holshouser has
announced a twelve-member
Platform Committee, headed
by State Senator Harry S.
Bagnal of Winston-Salem and
State Representative Charles
Taylor of Brevard, to prepare
a proposed platform to
present to the GOP State
Convention in November.
The committee includes a
black appointee, J. Harold
Davis of Southport, and a
youth representative, Miss
Vickie Ransom of Pembroke.
Two women are on the
committee. They are Mrs.
Fran Tomlin of Concord,
vice-chairman of the Eighth
District, and Dr. Faye B.
Eagles of Rocky Mount, vice
chairman of the Second
District.
Also named to the com
mittee were Mayor Tom
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the road mileage in the
Tranquil Harbour sub
division, receives $50,494.39,
with road mileage listed at
80.14 and a population ot 493.
Southport, with a 1970
census of 2,220, receives
$16,463.05 for 16.48 miles of
streets. Shallotte, with 5.85
miles of streets and a
population of 597, gets
$5,295.78 from the Powell Bill
funds.
Other Brunswick County
towns, and their allotments,
include: Bolivia, with 185
residents, receives $1,247.40;
Holden Beach, 136 residents,
$4,352.64; Ocean Isle Beach,
78 residents, $5,539.67; Sunset
Beach, 108 residents,
$4,884.71; and Yaupon Beach,
334 residents, $6,206.89.
The huge grants to Long
Beach and Boiling Spring
Lakes, along with other North
Carolina communities where
road mileage is propor
tionally much greater than
the population, caused the
General Assembly to change
the distribution to favor
towns on a per capita basis.
County Schools Received
$2.3 Million Last Year
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The Brunswick County
school unit received
$2,325,881 from the state nine
months school fund for the
year 1970-71.
The figures are based on an
audit of the fund by the State
Board of Education which
showed a nine-percent in
crease for all North Carolina
school units. The nine months
school fund includes the bulk
of the state money allocated
for public education.
The greater part of the
money is earmarked to pay
teachers, principals,
supervisors and school
superintendents. During 1970
71, Brunswick County
received the following ex
penditures:
General control, $46,008;
instructional services,
$1,735,281; operation of plant,
$91,671; compensation,
$252,345; auxiliary agencies,
$200,575.
The county school unit
ranked in the upper one-half
of the state’s school systems
in the amount of money
received. The figures are
state money only and do not
include local supplements.
The average classroom
teacher in North Carolina
earned $7,612 last year, $589
more than the previous year.
By comparison, the average
teacher pay five years ago
was $5,112 and in 1961 it was
$3,811.
These figures do not in
clude any supplement paid to
teachers by local school
units.
The average salary in 1870
71 for supervisors in North
Carolina schools was $10,116
and the average for school
principals was $11,569.
Superintendents had an
average salary of $15,836.
Again these figures do not
include any local sup
plements.
The number of classroom
teachers and principals paid
from the nine months school
fund was 44,671 in 1970-71 as
compared with 44,949 in 1969
70, which shows 278 less in
structional positions were
paid from this fund. The
decrease was due to a decline
in student enrollment.
The number of classroom
teachers for 1970-71 includes
1,961 special education
teachers who were employed
freon a separate allotment.
This number represents an
increase of 17 over the
number employed for 1969-70.
These teachers work with the
retarded, those with speech
and hearing handicaps, those
who are emotionally
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Brunswick ASC
Plans Elections
The Brunswick County ASC
Committee has scheduled the
1972 community committee
elections for its six
agricultural communites.
These communities are Lock
wood Folly, Northwest,
Smithville, Shallotte, Town
Creek and Waccamaw and
the boundaries are the same
as for the townships of the
same name.
Candidates for these
committees will be obtained
by petition during the period
of October 4 through October
27. If petitions for at least six
eligible nominees are not
received by October 27 the
incumbent committeemen
will nominate enough can
didates to bring the number
in each community to six.
Ballots will be mailed to all
persons who may be eligible
to vote on November 19.
These ballots must be
returned to the ASCS office or
postmarked by December 1.
These will be publicly
tabulated at the ASCS office
on December 6.
The newly elected com
mitteemen will meet at the
ASCS office as delgates to a
County Convention on
December 13, at which they
will elect a County Com
mitteeman for a three year
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Beneath The Flags
A new United States flag and a flag of North Carolina have been purchased
by members of the Board of County Commissioners for display in their
meeting room. Seated, left to right, are County Manager Jerry Lewis, Board
Chairman W.A. Kopp, Jr., and John Bray. (Photo by Spencer).