THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Police Arrest
Theft Suspect
A third principal suspect in
the October 29 robbery of
Waccamaw’s Sawdust Trail
bank has been arrested
following an investigation by
the FBI and the Wilmington
police department.
Lawrence Edward Frost,
32, of Wilmington was taken
to New Hanover County jail
and placed under $20,000
bond. George Atkinson, Jr.,
41, of Winnabow was also
arrested and charged with
aiding and abetting in the
robbery.
Atkinson’s bond also was
set at $20,000, according to
Robert M. Murphy, special
agent in charge of the FBI’s
Charlotte division.
Earlier, warrants had been
issued against Thomas
Hailstock and Frank
Reginald Pryor who are in
-custody - of the Wilmington
police on other charges. The.
U.S. Marshal’s office has
issued detainers for the two
men.
Boat Harbor
To Be Funded
An application for funds to
enlarge Southport’s Small
Boat Harbor is expected
January 28 from the
executive director of the
State Ports Authority in
Wilmington.
The SPA is requesting
$325,000 in Economic
Development Administration
funds and another $325,000 in
federal loans, a total of
$650,000.
The funds would be used to
add 14 covered boat slips to
accommodate vessels up to 60
feet; a new open berth pier;
and a new 250 by 20 foot pier
suitable for commercial use.
A 6,000 square foot seafood
building which would be
leased to seafood processors
is also planned, as well as
covered dry boat storage for
50 boats, enlargement of the
restaurant and parking area,
and possible dredging.
Funds would be provided
under the Public Works and
Economic Development Act
of 1965.
Stc.en Tools
Bring Arrests
Arrests have been made
following the theft of tools
from the Brown and Root
construction site during
Christmas.
Michael Edward Town
send, 23, of Wilmington;
David Michael Beasley, 18, of
Hallsboro; Jerry Wayne
Norris, 19, of Wilmington and
Timmy Clarence Packer, 19,
of Clarkton were charged
with stealing tools valued'at
$200 from the company’s
CP&L site. The thefts
reportedly occurred
December 24 and 26.
It is understood that the
thefts had no connection with
earlier thefts at the con
struction site.
Time And Tide
There was a picture of a submarine on the front page of The
Pilot for January 6,1937. It was the Perch, which was scheduled
to arrive here on Thursday of the following week. There was a
headline rumor that a couple of pulp manufacturers were in
terested in Brunswick as a possible location for a mill.
The master of the Greek ship Mount Dirfys, which had
broken in two and sunk on Frying Pan Shoals the week before,
expressed his gratitude for the hospitality and generosity of
Southport citizens. The crew still was in town. There was keen
interest, even in the winter off-season, in a yacht basin for
Southport.
One month after Pearl Harbor, The Pilot came out on
January 7,1942. A front-page headline announced the beginning
of tire rationing, with L.T. Yaskell and Prince O’Brien chair
man and secretary, respectively, of the first rationing board.
Another war note was the beginning of a course of instruction in
home nursing, with Mrs. L.C. Fergus, a registered nurse,
conducting the class.
Word from the State Highway Commission was that a new
drawbridge over the Intracoastal Waterway would be built at
the same site that was being served by the pontoon bridge on
the Caswell Beach road. “If The Girls Don’t Marry Seems Its
Their Own Fault”, teased a front-page headline story which
reported that official census figures showed there were 327
more men than women in Brunswick.
In our issue for January 8,1947, the front-page picture proved
that the war was over. Three of Mr. Willie Halmes’ boys were
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Winter Scene
This deserted dock at the old Southport yacht
basin shows empty slips as most of the local
shrimp trawlers have gone south for the winter.
In the left back-ground is one trawler which
stayed at home.
Civil Defense Shelter Plan Girls Nabbed
Prepared For Distribution InDrusRaid
The Brunswick County
Community & , '*er Planning
project of the Nor*. Carolina
Civil Defense Agercy took
Brunswick County into the
group selected for planning.
The first step in the project
was a study of the location
and capacity of public fallout
shelters found in the National
Fallout Shelter Survey in
existing buildings. The
survey teams have now founcT
18 shelter locations in
Brunswick County with space
for 1,026 residents of the
county.
The purpose of the project
is to analyze the public fallout
protection found by the
National fallout Shelter
Survey and match it to the
population. Where public
shelter is not readily
available to the people, the
plan seeks to find other
fallout shelter protection to
meet their needs. Also, it
informs them on how to
construct, improve or im
provise home shelters.
Ordinances requiring
fallout shelter space to be
incorporated where practical
in all new public buildings
will be recommended to the
city officials of Southport and
Board of Commissioners of
Brunswick County.
The printing of a
newspaper supplement to be
distributed to every family in
the county will be paid for by
the U.S. Department of
Defense, Office of Civil
Defense. Non-Subscribers
will be informed by radio
broadcasts where they can go
to secure a copy of the
Brunswick County Com
munity Shelter Plan.
The families in the county
not receiving a copy will be
advised by radio that free
copies will be available at the
Brunswick County Civil
Defense Office. Ralph King,
Superintendent of Schools for
the county, has agreed to
permit the oldest child in
each family having children
in the school system, to carry
the supplement home. A.F.
Martin, Agricultural Ex
tension Chairman, will
distribute copies to his
contacts throughout the
county. Ralph Price, ASCS
Chairman, will also
distribute copies to rural
families. The Brunswick
Electric Membership Cor
poration and the Atlantic
Telephone Membership
Corporation will aid in the
secondary distribution
methods.
i nree young women
arrested December 31 at
Southport on possession of
Marijuana charges will
appear in District Court on
Monday.
Nancy Elizabeth Watkins,
16, of Long Beach; Beverly
Lorraine Thompson, 21, of
Wilmington; and Karen
Louise Williams, 16, of
Hillsborough were arrested
December 31 for possession
of less than one gram of
marijuana by Yaupon Beach
police and the Brunswick
County sheriff’s office.
Engineers List
Terminal Work
“New highs in contract
awards and construction
completed were achieved
during the 1971 calendar
year,” stated Colonel Howard
L. Strohecker, Savannah
District Engineer for the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, in
releasing a year-end report of
activities.
At Sunny Point Army
Terminal near Southport a
total of four jobs were
completed in 1971, covering
construction at Sunny Point
Army Terminal, having a
dollar value of $1,463,000.
This brings the total of
construction placed by the
Savannah District Army
Engineers to $28,380,514.
Another $300,000 of new
construction is being carried
over into the 1972 calendar
year.
The largest construction
contract completed in 1971
calendar year was the ex
pansion of the North holding
yard, costing $1,045,000.
Other jobs completed are a
barricaded truck holding
yard for $208,000;
classification yard tracks,
$115,000; and a sewage
disposal facility, $95,000.
“My office awarded 198
construction, engineering,
and supply contracts, totaling
$74.6 million,” said Colonel
Strohecker, compared to 104
contract awards in 1970,
having a dollar value of $53.5
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Health Board Okays |
Sanitary Dump Sites
Sanitary landfill sites at
Southport and Shallotte have
been approved by the State
Board of Helath, according to
Brunswick County Manager
Jerry Lewis.
He said that if other details
are handled according to
schedule, the county should
be able to begin using the
sites sometime in February.
The only restriction placed on
the sites by the Board of
Health is that dumping of
DDT and other pesticides or
petroleum products is
prohibited.
A third landfill site at
Leland was approved by the
state Board of Health earlier.
NO PENALTY
County Tax Collector
Homer McKeithan has an
nounced that no penalty will
be added to taxes paid by
yesterday, January 4.
Starting today (Wednesday),
a two-percent penalty is
added to county tax
payments.
Discounts were allowed the
first few months of this fiscal
year, he said, but taxes not
paid by the first of this year
are subject to the penalty.
The county commissioners
decided on Monday that
because the county office was
closed Friday, that payments
received by Tuesday would
be excused from the extra
fee.
Starting on February 1 and
then on the first day of each
month thereafter, an ad
ditional penalty of three
fourths of one percent will be
added, McKeithan said.
The tax collector reported
that a higher percentage of
taxes was collected during
the first six months of this
fiscal year than during the
corresponding period last
year.
FIRE ANTS
In other business before the
county board at the first
meeting of the new year,
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Electricity From Atom I j
Notes 20th Anniversary
The idea of generating
electricity with nuclear
energy may seem new to
some Carolinians, but not to
residents of eastern Idaho.
During December the
communities surrounding the
National Reactor Testing
Station (NRTS) near Idaho
Falls are celebrating the 20th
anniversary of the first
generation of electricity by a
nuclear reactor.
As one Idaho teacher tells
her classes, “the rest of the
country knows Idaho for its
potatoes, butin Russia we are
known for the world’s largest
collection of nuclear reac
tors.”
On that first occasion 20
years ago, December 1951,
the Idaho Falls reactor
generated the first useful
amounts of electricity from
the fissioning of atoms, and
nuclear-power generation
was born. Only four light
bulbs were lit, but the next
day the entire building was
operated on nuclear
generated electricity.
i ne anniversary this month
focuses not only on the rapid
development of nuclear
power, but also on the 20
years of experience with
nuclear reactors. From four
light bulbs to economical
million-kilowatt plants is one
of the major technical
achieveents of the past two
decades.
While the Carolinas’ ex
perience with nuclear energy
does not date back quite as
far as Idaho’s, the electric
utilities serving the two
states have worked for many
years to make electricity
produced by nuclear energy a
reality.
..Carolina Power & Light
Co.’ formal entry into the
nulcear age began in 1955,
when the Atomic Energy
Commission granted the
company an access permit to
receive classified in
formation on nuclear energy.
Employees of the company
also began taking extension
courses in the fundamentals
of nuclear energy from N.C.
State University, the first
cmapus in the U.S. to have an
atomic reactor.
Also during- the year,
CP&L, Duke Power Co., S.C.
Electric & Gas Co., and
Virginia Electric and Power
Co., formed a committee for
the exchange of information
and ideas on nuclear energy.
It was out of this committee
that the Carolina-Virginia
Nuclear Power Associates,
Inc., (CVNPA) was formed in
1956 for the purpose of
nuclear research and
development.
In 1958 construction of a
demonstration nuclear plant
was begun by CVNPA at Parr
Shoals, S.C., approximately
25 miles northwest of
Columbia. Durign con
struction, personnel from
CP&L and the other three
companies in CVNPA un
derwent extensive training to
enable them to operate the
plant.
Again during a December,
this time in 1963, the first
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Shrimp Areas *
To Stay Open
Harvestable shrimp are
still available in moderate
numbers along the coastal
areas of North Carolina,
according to the State
Department of Conservation
and Development, with the
largest concentration found
in the Intracoastal Water
way, inlet channels and
major sounds and rivers.
All statewide shrimping
areas (except for fixed nets)
were closed at midnight
December 31, with selected
areas allowed to re-open
January 1.
For Brunswick County
shrimpers, those open areas
include:
LOCKWOOD FOLLY
INLET CHANNEL - the
main channel ONLY from the
Intracoastal Waterway at
Flasher 46 to Lockwood Folly
Inlet. All other tributaries
will remain closed.
SHALLOTTE INLET
CHANNEL — the main
channel ONLY from the
Waterway at Marker 75 to
Shallotte Inlet. All other
tributaries will remain
dosed
MAD INLET CHANNEL —
from the “Bird Island
Bridge” to Mad Inlet. All
tributaries between the Bird
Island Bridge and the In
tracoastal Waterway will
remain closed.
BONAPARTE CREEK —
the main channel ONLY from
the Waterway at Marker 111
to the Little River Inlet. All
tributaries, including East
River and Dead River, will
remain closed.
The areas were certified by
Eugene Simmons, Director of 4
C&D, and Dr. Thomas Linton
of C&D’s Division of Com
mercial and Sports Fisheries.
The open areas will remain
open until further notice is
given by the Department of
Conservation and
Development.
Construction of Carolina Power & Light Co.’s No. 2 unit (upper left) at the
Brunswick County nuclear generating plant is approximately 44 percent
Sum*o^te* ^°* * unjt **ower r'ght) is approximately 26 percent complete.
The |377 million units, located near Southport, are scheduled for operation in
1974 and 1975, respectively.