VOLUME 43
THE STATE POST PILOT
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A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
16 PAGES TODAY SOUTHPORT, NORTH CAROLINA DECEMBER 22, 1971 5 CENTS A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY i
Juniors Name
New Officers
Mrs. Sandy Spencer was
installed as president of the
*- Junior Woman’s Club of
Southport Friday night at the
club’s annual Christmas
banquet at Jones Restaurant.
Mrs. Mary McHose,
retiring president, presided
over the candlelight in
stallation following dinner.
She introduced the guest of
honor, Mrs. Margaret
Harper, who installed the
new officers. Mrs. Harper
has been president of the
Southport Woman’s Club,
District 11 president, and
president of the State
Federation of Women’s
Gubs. Each new officer was
introduced by Mrs. Harper as
her duties were described.
They will be President, Sandy
Spencer; vice-president,
Susan Herring; secretary,
Alneta Crowe; treasurer,
Betty Trunnell; Newsletter
Editor, May Barbee;
Publicity Director, Fonda
Stephenson.
The highlightof the evening
was the presentation of the
Club Woman of die Year
award, voted on by the club
members themselves. Mrs.
McHose, last year’s winner,
presented the silver bowl to
Mrs. Alneta Crowe. Mrs.
Crowe is the only club
member who ever received
this award twice. She
received the silver bowl once
before in 1965.
Three new members during
1971 were given the pledge oi
membership and official^
welcomed into the club by
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Good Reaction
To Bridge Site
Reaction to the an
nouncement last week by the
State Highway Commission
Planning Board that a new
fixed span bridge across the
inland waterway to Oak
Island will be in ap
proximately the same
location as die old bridge has
met with general approval.
The citizens of Yaupon
Beach understandably were
pleased, for it means that
traffic patterns to the beach
area will be unchanged.
Mayor C.E. Murphy spoke for
most of his people last week
when he said, “We couldn’t
be happier. Now all we want
them to do is start to work.”
This week City manager
Jack Hayward of Long Beach
declared that he and the
majority of the people in that
beach community are
pleased with the speed that
has been shown by the
Planning Board. “We are
delighted that the Planning
t Board has agreed upon the
location of a high level bridge
to serve the island. We hope
they will be able to begin
construction soon.”
When asked if he could be
quoted he replied “You
certainly may”.
A spokesman for the State
Highway Commission said
this week that every possible
effort still is being made to
expedite this project, and this
probably dates from
Governor Bob Scott’s original
message to the Highway
Department the day
following the accident which
destroyed the old bridge.
World from Raleigh is that
an environmental study is a
requirement for this project,
but that orders have been
given to move with red tape
cutting speed. Instead of the
usual several months, it is
anticipated that this phase
will be limited to only a few
weeks.
The bridge project is a
major construction project,
and the prospect is that it will
require many months for
completion.
Garden club members of Southport combined
efforts Tuesday in their annual project to make
Christmas wreaths to be placed on the doorways
of the various church in Southport. Shown here,
left to right, are Mrs. Dan Harrelson, Mrs. Fred
, Presents Gift To Library
Mrs. Mae Bamber, former Mayor of Southport, are Mayor Dorothy Gilbert, Postmaster Marjorie
England, is shown here as she visited the South- Livingston, Mrs. Bamber, City Manager C.D.
port-B runs wick County Library Monday to Pickerrel and Mrs. Dorothy Davis, librarian
present an autographed copy erf “Southport (Photo by Spencer)
(England) Architecture”. With her in this picture
Past Southport (England)
Mayor Pays Another Visit
Mrs. Mae Bamber, former
Mayor of Southport, England,
and long-time friend of South
port, North Carolina, was a
visitor in this city-over the
weekend and while here
visited the Southport
Brunswick County Public
Library for the purpose of
delivering a book on the
architecture of Southport,
England, courtesy of the
author.
Mrs. Bamber is on her way
to spend Christmas with her
sister in Florida.
The book is entitled
“Thatch, Towers and
Colonnades” and the author
is Cedric Greenwood. In the
past Mrs. Bamber has been
responsible for a number of
books being added to the
shelves of the local library.
She was mayor in 1957-58 and
ki 1965 sent a teak-chest of
books from various
organizations and individuals
in her city to the North
Carolina Southport’s library.
She is a founder and former
national president of the
Transatlantic Brides and,
Parents Association. When
she is in this country she tries
to visit the four Southports,
one in Maine, one in Con
necticut, the North Carolina
Southport, and one in Florida
which is now a ghost town.
While here she also
presented to the editor of the
local paper a copy of the
Southport (England) Visiter,
featuring their award win
ning design.
e And Tide
Our Christmas week issue of The Pilot for 1936 came out on
December 24, and for this one time we used green ink, a sort of
color printing that was 20 years before its time. May it never be
said that The Pilot is not a pioneer! (confidentially, it was a sort
of sickly green, barely legible. And we never have tried it
again.) The Southport business district was decorated for
Christmas, with colored lights across the streets at the four
principal business intersections.
There was good news from the Post Office Department:
Sunday morning delivery in Southport was scheduled to begin
on January 3, 1937. Shipments of Christmas evergreens,
principally, holly, was adding to the income of several Brun
swick fanners: and Christmas vacation for Brunswick county
school children had included those for the one-teacher unit at
Bald Head Island.
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Willing, Mrs. Clint Bellamy, Mrs. Guy Garrett,
Mrs. Robert Thompson, Mrs. Davis Herring,
Mrs. Jack Vermillion and Mrs. M.M. McHose. In
the foreground is Mrs. Lewis Hardee. (Photo by
Spencer)
Service For
Farm Families
The Brunswick County
Agricultural Extension
Service is located in Supply to
serve the education needs of
the people of Brunswick
County in the fields of
agriculture, family living and
youth. The County Extension
service is a part of the
Cooperative Extension
Service.
Cooperative Extension
work in Agriculture and
Home Economics is a part
nership undertaking between
each land-grant college or
university, which is N.C.
State University at Raleigh,
and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, in cooperation
with local governments and
local people. Extension is a
unique service of three levels
of government permitting
maximum flexibility and
adaption to local conditions
and needs while carrying a
hard core of purpose, ob
jectives and focus.
ihe major function of the
Cooperative Extension
Service, as stated in the
Smith Lever Act, is: . .To
aid in diffusing among the
people of the United States
useful and practical infor
mation on subjects relating to
agriculture and home
economics, and to encourage
the application of the
same..
This broad charter clearly
identifies Extension’s func
tion as education. This is not
education in the abstract, but
education for action. It is
education of an informal and
distinct type. It is education
directed to helping people
solve the various problems
which they encounter from
day to day in agriculture,
home economics, and related
subjects.
In performing this function,
the Extension Service has
always held high those ob
jectives which help people
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Shallotte To
Handle Folders
Shallotte has been selected
by the U.S. Postal Service to
make available to the public
the 1971 Commemorative
Stamp Folders, marking the
first time in history that such
mini-albums have been
distributed through post
offices, the postmaster said.
“We are pleased that we
can make available these
attractive mini-albums
throughout our area,” he
added.
The folders will contain all
commemorative stamps
issued in 1971, plus two
Christmas stamps issued on
November 10.
The starter kits will be sold
in Shallotte at the post office
and in the following com
munities at the local post
office: Burgaw, Wilmington,
Tabor City, Wallace and
Whiteville.
The kits contain 24 com
memorative stamps and a
mini-album with a
description of each. They are
primarily designed to en
courage stamp collecting by
young persons and will cost
$2.50
“The stamp folders make it
possible for young adults and
collectors to purchase a full
year's issue of com
memorative stamps at one
time,” the postmaster,
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Free Phone Service
For County? Maybe
The possibility of toll-free
telephone service for
Brunswick County was
discussed Monday by the
board of commissioners and
representatives of the
Southern Bell and Atlantic
telephone companies.
Many problems would have
to be eliminated before such a
county-wide service could be
offered, the board was told by
Ron Nance, manager of
Southern Bell’s Wilmington
office, and George Harmon,
district manager of that
company.
Harmon said a cost factor
would have to be studied.
Initial studies could show
there was not enough interest
to establish the service, then
if a service were established
a large increase in phone
calls would occur.
He explained that people
who would have limited their
calls because they were
calling long distance would
use the service much more
frequently, thus creating a
need for a larger number of
circuits.
Cost of providing a toll-free
service could increase rates
by as much as 60 percent, he
noted.
W.A. Kopp, Jr., chairman
of the county commissioners,
gave his reasons for wanting
toll-free services established.
“For a long time there has
been a sectionalism or split in
Brunswick County and I feel
it is in part due to a lack of
communication within the
county. Trying to get the
county together is one of the
objectives of this board, and
I’d like to see it done during
our time or as soon as
possible.”
Harmon said Southern Bell
was considering giving
people who make numbers of
calls throughout the county a
modified WATS arrangement
for in-county calls.
County commissioners are
studying possibilities for the
service, and are awaiting
results of another telephone
company study. Also present
was Earl Bellamy of Atlantic
Telephone company, who
agreed in-county service
would cause problems, but
said his company could
handle it if Southern Bell
decided it was feasible.
The county currently has
service from Southern Bell
and Atlantic Telephone,
making it long distance to
call each other’s exchange. In
some places it is long
distance to call someone who
live five miles away.
In other business Monday,
the board chairman referred
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to Corncake Inlet and its
affect on pollution in the
marshlands behind Bald
Head Island.
“It is beyond me to realize
how the government will not
take into accout the
tremendous economic loss to
the people of Brunswick
County because of the
polluted area in and around
Bald Head Island which, in
my opinion, has become so as
a direct result of the closing
of Corncake Inlet several
years ago,” the board
chairman said.
“Public officials ,nd
private citizens of Brunswick
County have plead, with
apparent failure, for Corn
cake Inlet to be opened to
achieve the same results to
be achieved by the opening of
Drum Inlet (further up the
N.C. coast),” he added.
In a letter Col. Albert
Costanzo of the U.S. Corps of
Engineers, Kopp said the
Cape Fear River has polluted
the marshes and shellfish
breeding areas near the
island.
“Why then is it not feasible
to open Corncake Inlet,
thereby improving the salt
water circulation so that
these marsh areas will once
again be productive?” he
asked.
State Jaycee President Here
Avery Nye, state president of the Jaycees, visited Southport Thursday and
was greeted by City Manager C.D. Pickerrell. On the right is William Ezzell,
president of the Southport Jaycees. This was one stop in a tour of the state
mapped out by President Nye, who is from Fairmont. (Photo by Spencer)
Terminal Ships
Go ‘Piggy-Back’
A third packaging in
novation was given its first
try here Saturday when
several flatcars piggy-loaded
with large trailer vans were
unloaded.
While piggy-back is nothing
new in railroading, Lesie R.
Bellows, public information
officer of the Military Ocean
Terminal, said, “we haven’t
tried it.”
Bellows observed this was
an experiment on the part of
the railroad (Seaboard
Coastline) as well.
A tractor-truck was backed
up a ramp from ground level
to the level of the flat cars
holding the trailers. It hit
ched on the trailers and
pulled them off to their
destination in the yards of the
Terminal where they will
await unloading on to ships.
The trailers carried about
40,000 pounds each and were
loaded two to a car. Each
trailer was 40 feet long.
“There can be a cost ad
vantage to moving trailer this
way,” Bellows believes.
As far as the work at the
Terminal goes, this method of
cargo movements makes
little difference. He added it
might make a difference at
some of the depots at which
the ammunition is loaded into
truck trailers or railroad
cards.
Earlier this year the
Terminal off-loaded its first
LASH cargo on the 800-foot
long LASH Italia. In this
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Local Girl
Star In Play
Rachel Ann Harrelson,
daughter of Mrs. Edwin C.
Harrelson, Southport, was
one of the 24 students taking
part in the production, “Alice
Construction Co.” Last week
at N.C. State University. A
junior at and sociology
major, Rachel played one of
the Alices and appeared in
several scenes and dances, in
each one a different
character.
This is State’s entry in the
American College Theater
Festival. Ten productions
will be chosen for presen
tation in Washington in April
at the John F. Kennedy
Center for Performing Arts,
which presents the Festival
along with the Smithsonion
Insitution.
To quote Bill Morrison,
Entertainment Editor for
New and Observer, Raleigh,
“Alice Construction Co. is the
most usual theater ex
perience I’ve ever ex
perience. If it were possible
to take this show off the
Thompson Theater stage, I
would give it to every person
on my Christmas list. It’s a
psychedelic happening, a
satire, a side show, a
pleasure. It a profusion of
dazzling entertainments,
funny or frightening in
terludes and memorable
vignettes.”