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THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community * ————— ’ • ___ __1 ~ : i- : VOLUME 43, NUMBER 31 . 12 PAGES TODAY SOUTHPORT, NORTH CAROLINA FEBRUARY 23, 1972 5 CENTS A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY mrnmmmmmmm A New Day Dawning (Photo By Boyce Spencer) 1_ A A A A Tii And Tide A front-page article in The Pilot for February 24, 1937, not only reported steps being taken in an effort to secure a yacht basin at Southport, but related that this movement dated back to 1930 when the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers had conducted a study and had recommended such an improvement here. Orton gardens were in bloom—about six weeks earlier than usual: the USE Dredge Comstock had stopped over in South port; and death had removed one of Southport’s 1-time colorful characters, the late Pack Tharp. There was a front-page photo in The Pilot for February 25, 1942, showing some snow scenes in Southport: The cutlines said this was the heaviest snowfall here in five years. Bids for construction of the new bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway on the Fort Caswell road were being advertised. A Southport boy, Teddy Lewis, was in flight training with the Army Air Corps; a “bond” fire had been held by county officials, who had destroyed $120,500 of redeemed bonds in a public display; and Miss Louise Lewis had become the first full time clerk-typist with the Brunswick County Rationing Board. The date was February 26, 1947, the war was over and there was agitation to have the State of North Carolina take over Fort Caswell for operation as a State Park. David W. Watson, principal of Southport High School, was resigning to become a special agent with the F.B.I. Southport Lions had sponsored an old-time fiddlers con vention; a young lady from Quatemala was a “summer” visitor in town — during the month of February, and Southport boys and Bolivia girls had won their respective divisions of the Brunswick County Basketball Tournament. There was good news in the Pilot for February 20, 1952: A decision had been made to exclude St. Phillips Church and Brunswick Town from the land being acquired for Sunny Point (Continued On Page Four) State Plans To Take Developers To Court The importance of a Bald Head Island dredging operation has been greatly exaggerated, according to the president of Carolina Cape Fear Corporation which plans to develop the con troversial real estate near Southport. “If this minor activity is considered to be dredging,” said William Henderson, “then every child building a sand castle on the beach would require a permit under the state’s dredge and fill law.” Another chapter in the continuing Bald Head saga was written last week when a state fisheries supervisor found where Carolina Cape Fear Corporation had dredged a space large enough to accommodate a barge, which would land heavy equipment on the island. “To facilitate the safe unloading, the contractor temporarily pushed up some sand on the beach,” Hen Need Of Better Schools Shown By Recent Tour The Brunswick County commissioners, on an in vitation from the board of education, toured the South port Elementary School and the Leland High School last Wednesday. The purpose of the tour was to provide the commissioners with first-hand knowledge of the problems resulting from the crowded conditions in these two schools. The commissioners, ac companied by members of the board of education, began their tour at Southport Elementary School. Prin cipal Marion L. Burn used a sketch of the school to give the visitors an overview of the physical plant. The Southport school has been plagued by space problems since the destruction of the main building by fire some four years ago. Space problems have been further com plicated by increased student enrollment brought about by area construction projects. Prior to the influx of students, it was thought that the school could be phased out of operation with the opening of the new con solidated high schools. A series of temporary ad Extra Penny Tax Received The first distribution of funds received from the extra penny sales tax has been made in Brunswick County. According to County Manager Jerry Lewis, the county received $63,893.79 of the total allotment of $76,627.85. The Department of Revenue withheld 1.035 percent of the collections, but the remainder was distributed to the county towns on the following ad valorem basis: Southport, $3,364.32; Boiling Spring Lakes, $594.61; Yaupon Beach, $858.51; Long Beach, $4,771.57; Shallotte, $1,051.29; Bolivia, $51.13; Holden (Omtfrnied On Piffa FVnirS justments have left the facility with teaching stations in mobile units, the gym nasium, city hall, a church, the fire station, and the old marineology building. Following the Southport visit, the commissioners visited the South Brunswick High School site. It was noted that the sandy terrain would make the school parking lot unusable unless funds could be obtained for improvement. In the Leland area, the commissioners had the op portunity to compare the inadequate facility at Leland High School with the new consolidated high school which is now under con struction. W. Nelson Best, principal of Leland High School, pinted out some of the typical crowded conditions existing in his school. The most notable conditions cited were the utilization of the auditorium as a study hall and the partitioning of classrooms in order to provide enough teaching stations. -; *+*■*•? v'**' v. *•*• ■ derson said. After the barge was unloaded the landing spot was repaired—so well, in fact, that Corps of Engineers officials were unable to detect where any dredging had occurred. No matter, said the Corps’ Deputy District Engineer Maj. Joel Callahan: “If you do it (dredge below the high water mark) for a minute, you’re in violation of federal Local Woman Killed By Car A 62-year-old Southport woman was struck by an automobile and killed Friday night as she crossed Howe Street. Mrs. Nell Pendergraph died at Dosher Memorial Hospital at 7:55 p.m., about 25 minutes after the mishap. Southport Policeman Ray Becraft said no charges will be filed against the driver of the vehicle, 17-year-old Julie Amanda St. George of South port. “It was unavoidable,” said the patrolman. Becraft stated in his report that Mrs. Pendergraph had parked her car on Howe Street and was crossing the highway. Rain was falling, Becraft noted, and Miss St. George told him she did not see Mrs. Pendergraph before the impact. The fatality occurred between Leonard and Owen streets in a posted 35 mile an hour speed zone. Mrs. Pendergraph was the wife of Lee M. Pendergraph and worked at Dosher Memorial Hospital in South- i port. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at South port Baptist Church with the Revs. Mark Owens and John Dean officiating. Burial was in Northwood Cemetery. Besides her husband, survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Brenda Garner of Southport; seven sisters, Mrs. Edna Butler of Fayetteville, Mrs. Callie Allred of Greensboro, Mrs. Ruby Kendall, Mrs. Ruth Wicker, Mrs. Lena Jones and Mrs. Daisy White, all of Raleigh; and Mrs. Blanche Coggins of Alabama; three grandchildren, Jimmy, Kim and Shane Garner of South port. law.” The Corps also is involved in another matter that could affect the eventual use of the island—whether or not a permit will be issued for a small pier that Carolina Cape Fear built as a replacement for another dock that no longer was safe for use. Some observers believe that the pier issue, as well as the dredging, is trivial and is being used as a means to prevent development of the 12,000-acre island. Conservationists want the island protected and Gov. Bob Scott has sided with them, failing last year to secure tax funds for the purchase of the island but nonetheless continuing his efforts to see that the property is never developed into the multi-million resort that Henderson envisions. The state has announced its intention to pursue the (Oontktued Or Page Pour) Candidates Prepare For May 6 Primary An incumbent slate of Republican commissioners will be up for re-election next fall, but it will take a May 6 primary to determine which Democrats they will be running against. Vardell Hughes of Waccamaw Township paid his filing fee Monday mor ning, shortly before the 12 o’clock noon deadline. William A. Kopp, Jr., J T Clemmons, John Bray and Robert Simmons entered the race for the five county commissioner seats several weeks ago. In a surprise move Monday morning, George W. Frink <rf Bolivia announced he would contest incumbent Register of Deeds Durward Clark in the Democratic primary. The winner will be opposed by Republican Arthur Knox of Bolivia in the November general election. Candidates seeking the Democratic nominations for the commissioner seats in clude Herman Strong, Wayland Vereen and Bob Thorsen of Smithville Township; Dural Guiton and Lonnie C. McCoy, Jr., of Northwest; Ernest M. McGee, Jr., of Town Creek; Andrew Gray and John W. Reeves of Lockwoods Folly; and W.A. Stanley and C. Drew Long of Shallotte. There is no Democratic candidate from Waccamaw Township. The five Republicans will be listed cm the ballot in November, there is no question of that; the Democrats also will have five candidates — each from a different township. Wac camaw, which has no can didate in the primary, would have none in the general election, either. The Democratic nominations will not be awarded necessarily to the top five vote-getters: McGee of Town Creek apparently will be nominated, for example, although he might receive fewer votes than any (Continued On Page Two) Campaign Diary By MARGARET HARPER Things are picking up. I was in Greensboro last Wednesday to attend a meeting of the N.C. Bi centennial Commission, which was strictly a non political session. Still, my presence in Greensboro resulted in an interview with Pat Alspaugh and a couple of good stories in the Green sboro Daily News the next morning. The folks over at WGHP-TV in High Point heard I was up that way and sent a camera crew over for a short sequence that was shown that evening on their news program. On . Thursday morning I was at Peace College in Raleigh to talk with the student assembly. I had been invited by Jane Finch from Bailey, a real pretty girl who knows Cheryl Johnson. It delighted her to learn that Cheryl is traveling with me some during my campaign. I enjoy my contacts with college students. Not only are they sharp and fully aware of what is going on, this time they can vote! While I was in Raleigh, I was interviewed by Mary Dail Mordecai of the News and Observer. She is doing a story on woman candidates for state office and it is due (Continued On Page Pour) Official Takes Exception To Editorial On Smoking The staff director of the U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory Council on Smoking has taken exception to a recent editorial published in this newspaper. Dr. Eugene Guthrie wrote to the Pilot, he said, not so much to criticize the editorial but to give the readers a broader background of in formation. Dr. Guthrie is first cousin of Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson of Southport and vacations in the area each summer. His father, also a doctor, was stationed at the quarantine station here. The staff director said he could not let the February 2 editorial “Unfair Restric tion” go unchallenged. The editorial stated that “a requirement that cigarette manufacturers include a printed warning on each pack of their product is another step in the unfair persecution of an industry which has done nothing to deserve this treatment.” The editorial further stated that automobiles and liquor are potentially dangerous to one’s health but are not subject to the printed war nings. Dr. Guthrie cited statements in the editorial which read “cigarette menace to health is untrue” and “nobody in his right mind claims that cigarettes take the lives of as many people as do accidents in automobiles.” “Of the many diseases (OoatiHuad On Page Ftour) OVERCROWDED SCHOOL conditions at Southport and Leland were observed by mem bers of the board of county commissioners last Wednesday. The Southport area students are using makeshift quarters made necessary by the influx of families for the construction projects in the area. New consolidated high schools will ease the burden throughout the county, but a major problem is expected to continue here.
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