THE STATE PORT PILOT
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VOLUME 43 NUMBER 44 18 PAGES TODAY SOUTHPORT, NORTH CAROLINA MAY 24, 1972 ~" 5 CENTS A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Sales Tax Distribution
Reflects County Growth
Brunswick town and county
governments have received
more than (100,000 from the
second distribution of the one
»,* cent sales tax.
The distribution by the N.C.
Department of Revenue
includes proceeds for the
quarter ehding March 31. The
funds are distributed on an ad
valorem basis to the county
and the towns of Southport,
Long Beach, Yaupon Beach,
Boiling Spring Lakes,
Bolivia, Shallotte, Holden
Beach, Ocean Isle Beach and
Sunset Beach.
The Department of
Revenue withholds 1.035
percent of the collections as
its fee.
The county received
(88,500.67 from the sales tax
collected during January,
February and March. In the
first quarterly distribution,
the county had received
(63,893.79 of the total
distribution of (76,627.85.
The total distribution
reported this past week for
Brunswick County is
(107,248.92, substantially
more than the first quarter
funds. Also received this
week was the report of
collections in April, which
totalled (42,224.99 for the
greatest one-month collection
to date.
The collection of the sales
tax, which is applied to all
purchases subject to the
state’s three - percent levy, is
indicative of the economic
growth of Brunswick County.
The distribution of the
second - quarter collections
was made to Brunswick
T County towns on the following
basis: Boiling Soring Lakes.
$823.60; Bolivia, (70.83;
Holden Beach, $1,195.49;
Long Beach, $6,609.20; Ocean
Isle Beach, $1,061.06;
Shallotte, $1,456.16; South
port, $4,660.00; Sunset Beach,
$572.74; and Yaupon Beach,
$1,189.14.
Long Beach receives the
largest distribution because
of the large tax base for
ocean front property and the
Tranquil Harbour sub
division. If the collections
were distributed on a
population basis, Southport
would receive the most
money.
The one-cent sales tax was
approved last summer by the
county board of com
missioners without a vote of
the people. There has been
very little opposition to the
levy, however, as most
counties in this part of the
state have enacted the extra
sales tax.
The $150,000 the county has
received from the first two
distributions is the equivalent
of a 15-cent levy added to the
current property tax rate of
Angry Patient
Kayoes Doctor
A Southport woman who
attacked Dr. Norman Hor
stein with a Coke bottle May 9
was placed on probation in
District Court here Tuesday.
Dorothy Reifsnyder, 48,
pleaded no contest and was
sentenced to six months in
prison, but the term was
suspended upon payment of
$100 and court costs.
Dr. Hornstein, who told
Judge Ray Walton the woman
was under the influence of
either alcohol or drugs when
the assault occurred, said he
came to the hospital about 4
a.m. when it was reported the
defendant was creating a
disturbance. He called the
woman into the emergency
room so she could be treated.
“I won’t go in there,” she is
reported to have said, “he’ll
have to come out here.”
The Reifsnyder woman
reportedly began telling
whom she would call (the
SBI, FBI, Camp Lejuene),
and while Dr. Hornstein was
writing her comments, he
said, he was struck over the
head with the soft drink
bottle. The force of the blow
smashed the bottle, he told
Judge Walton, and the cut
required six stitches to close.
“It quite easily could have
caused a compound fracture
and death,” said the doctor.
Mrs. Reifsnyder, whom
Hornstein described as
seeming “more angry than in
pain,” did not testify. Her
lawyer contended that a
severe migrain headache had
caused her to act irrationally
in striking the doctor.
Said Judge Walton, “If she
had something besides a Coke
bottle, she might have killed
somebody.”
$1.90, and in the opinion of the
county board the fairest way
to add the needed, extra
revenue was through the
penny sales tax.
The sales tax collection is
expected to remain high
through the summer as
tourists flock to the Brun
swick County beaches. The
April collection will be added
to collections in May and
June, to be distributed for the
quarter ending June 30.
The N.C. Department of
Revenue reported earlier this
spring that Brunswick
County had experienced a
greater increase in sales tax
collection during the past 12
months than any of the state’s
other 99 counties.
During the 12 months cited
in the report, the collections
here increased 33.14 percent,
or three times the state
average.
Canal -Seeding
Due Next Fall
The banks of the canal
under construction by
Carolina Power and Light
Company in connection with
its Brunswick plant will be
seeded with grass and pine
trees at the earliest planting
opportunity this fall.
M.A* McDuffie, con
struction manager for CP&L,
says the banks will be planted
“by Christmas.”
McDuffie said it is the
policy of CP&L to restore
construction areas to an eye
pleasing condition. He said
the restoration of vegetation
is part of the company’s
commitment to protect the
environment.
Help Offered County Tourism
Bill Hensley, former
executive director of the
Travel and Promotion
Division of the North
Carolina Department of
Conservation and
Development, has challenged
a group of tourism interested
citizens of Brunswick County
to “get your house in order.”
Hensley, currently vice
president of the North
Carolina Motor Club and
vice-president of the Travel
Council of North Carolina,
related some of his own ex
^..^riences in the travel
V promotion business in of
fering ideas of methods to
increase the tourist trade in
Brunswick County during a
meeting last Tuesday night at
the Ebb Tide Restaurant,
Holden Beach.
The meeting was sponsored
jointly by the Travel Council
of North Carolina and the
Resources Development
Commission for Brunswick
County. Representing the
Travel Council were Carl
Lowendick, president of the
council, and executive
director of the North Carolina
Petroleum Council; Bob
High, public relations
director of the battleship
North Carolina, and vice
president, east, of the Travel
Council; Hensley; and Mrs.
Evelyn Covington, executive
Time And Tide
May 25,1937—Plans were being made for an outboard motor
boat race, with the Carolina Outboard Association as sponsor.
The farm outlook in Brunswick was described as good; and
Vacation Bible Schools were in progress throughout the county.
Fishermen were warned to time their trips with the tide;
fishing stories in upstate newspapers were attracting many to
this area; and there had been fun for all — plus a lot of action —
in an old - fashioned track and field meet at Camp Sapona.
The time was May 27, 1942, and Judge Clifton Moore and
Congressman Alton Lennon were engaged in a three-man race
with David Sinclair for the post of district solicitor. The
primary election was to be the following Saturday.
Plane spotters were warned that stations must be manned 24
hours a day (there was a war on); and the rationing board was
. swamped with requests for tire purchase certificates. There
were extra pages in The Pilot as candidates made their final
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secretary of the Travel
Council.
Jake Stephenson, director
of the Resources Develop
ment Commission for
Brunswick County, was
master of ceremonies for the
program.
More than 20 Brunswick
County citizens representing
seven county communities
and a scattering of business
interests attended the dinner
meeting. Represented were
banking institutions,
restaurants, charter boats,
campgrounds, government,
real estate and education.
The purpose of the
gathering was to present to
interested citizens new ideas
in promoting the tourist
business in Brunswick
County, and to inform these
citizens of the availability of
the North Carolina Travel
Council is assisting the
promotion of the area.
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THE CP&L VISITOR CENTER, located on NC
87 near Southport, is expected to be a top at
traction this summer. "The Energy Story" tells
of the nuclear power plant under construction
here, and relates what the multi-million dollar
facility will mean to people of North Carolina.
EROSION ON LONG BEACH near Lockwood
Folly Inlet slowed during the past week but still
threatens the state-maintained road through the
King's Lynn section. A series of groins on the
west side of the inlet, at Holden Beach, are to be
constructed soon, hopefully to halt even more
severe erosion on that strand.
County Board ‘Dismayed’
About Dredging Impasse
The maintenance of Lock
wood Folly Inlet, being paid
more attention here now that
the west end of Long Beach is
being washed to sea, came
under fire this week by the
Brunswick County board of
commissioners.
In a letter to the U.S.
Department of the Interior,
the county board expressed
dismay that “one so far
removed and with so little
knowledge of the local
situation has the ability to
completely stop a project
which would contribute to the
economy of our county.”
The objection by the county
commissioners was based on
the Department of the In
terior’s rejection of dredge
spoil sites after the sites had
been approved by the N.C.
Department of Natural and
Economic Resources, the
Department of Commercial
and Sports Fisheries and the
Environmental Protection
Agency.
After the rejection, county
officials sought alternate
sites, but the only site the
Interior Department would
approve included a good
stand of timber. This, in due
course, brought a letter from
Rep. Alton Lennon to Gov.
Bob Scott, stating that his
efforts to help find a suitable
spoil area have been futile:
“property owners have
refused to allow the spoil to
be placed on high ground,”
I^ennon told the governor.
The last-term
Congressman added that the
$99,000 allocated for main
tenance dredging is in
jeopardy, which could mean
a two-year delay. Lennon
said that Col. Albert Con
stanzo of the Corps of
Engineers reported to him
that dredging could begin
immediately if suitable spoil
areas could be found.
The blame for any delay,
county commissioners have
repeatedly said, lies in a
bureaiicratic government. In
reviewing the Department of
Interior rejection, their letter
stated, “it becomes very
apparent that many of the
statements made reflect a
Democrats To
Meet Saturday
Much needs to be done at
the Brunswick County
Democratic Convention at
Shallotte School this Satur
day at 2 p.m., according to
state party chairman John
Church.
Church pointed out that
only delegates elected at the
GOP Caucus
On Saturday
The Brunswick County
Republican Party will hold its
County Convention Saturday
at Shallotte Courthouse at 2
p.m, according to Charles E.
Blake, chairman.
The purpose of this meeting
will be to select delegates and
alternates for the district and
state conventions. There will
be a representative present
from each of the guber
natorial candidates’ cam
paign staff. All interested
Republicans are urged to
attend.
precinct meetings could vote.
Officers of the county
Executive Committee must
be elected this Saturday. This
includes a chairman, first
vice-chairman, which must
be of the opposite sex to the
chairman, and a second vice
chairman. If the chairman
and first vice-chairman are
of the same race, the second
vice-chairman must be of
that race other than the race
of the chairman and first
vice-chairman, which con
stitutes at least 20 percent of
the registered Democratic
voters in the County.
A third vice-chairman must
be 30 years of age or under if
the other vice-chairman are
over 30 years of age. A
secretary and a treasure
must also be elected.
Other positions to be filled
are: members of the state
Executive Committee,
members of the State
Senatorial, House of
Representatives, Judicial
and Congressional districts,
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Former Southport Doctor
Funds Citadel Scholarship
A former Southport
physician now semi-retired
and living in Charleston, S.C.,
has bequethed $250,000 to The
Citadel for scholarships to the
military college.
Dr. William S. Dosher, a
native of Southport, has
created a trust that will be
funded to the maximum
allowed by the Internal
Revenue Service. First
consideration for the
scholarships will be given to
young men who are residents
of either Brunswick or New
Hanover Counties.
Although not a Citadel
graduate, Dr. Dosher said, “I
am impressed with the All -
American boy image of
Citadel cadets and the out
standing quality of the
college’s graduates and their
dedication to the principles of
loyalty to God and Country.
Mrs. Dosher and I would like
others to be able to attain this
type of education.”
Dr. Dosher said the
scholarship fund established
in his name would provide
one or more $1,000 scholar
ships each year for “bright
and somewhat financially
disadvantaged young men”
without regard to race, creed,
or color. It is hope that other
persons will establish similar
scholarships for deserving
cadets or contribute to the
fund which he has
established.
Dr. Dosher received his
B.A. degree from Duke
University and his M.D.
degree from the Medical
College of Virginia in Rich
mond. He started his practice
in his hometown of Southport
and four years later moved to
Wilmington where he
practiced for 19 years. He
subsequently served for 12
years with Veterans Ad
ministration hospitals before
retiring as chief of the out
patient clinic in Manila in the
Phillippines and settling in
Charleston.
On accepting the Dosher
trust. Maj. Gen. J.W.
Duckett, president of The
Citadel, said, “I deeply and
sincerely appreciate this
generous endorsement of The
Citadel System of education
and pledge to continue
producing the high quality
graduate for which The
Citadel is known.”
complete lack of knowledge
of the local situation, and in
particular, it is evident that
the reviewing marine
biologist inclined about
every known species of fin
fish as well as wildlife in an
attempt to justify his
position.
“We invite any member of
your organization to locate
any muskrats, raccoon or
rabbits in the proposed spoil
area,” the commissioners
stated.
They called for the
department to re-evaluate its
decision and to make on-the
site inspections of the area.
The commissioners also
asked Rep. Lennon to
rebudget funds for the
maintenance dredging.
A public hearing about the
proposed dredging of the
Ixickwood Folly River and
Shallotte River will be held at
Shallotte June 12. According
to the notice of the hearing, a
resolution to study the river
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Burned Vehicle
Found On Pier
Investigation of a case in
which a car was pushed to the
end of the Yaupon Beach pier
and burned has resulted in
the arrest of three area youth
and a warrant for another.
Yaupon Beach Police Chief
Aubrey Hickman reported
that John Woods of Long
Beach, Ricky Smith of South
port and a juvenile have been
arrested and placed under
$700 bond. A fourth suspect
has fled out-of-state, Hick
man reported, and the FBI
has been called into the case.
Awaiting the fourth
defendant will be a $1,200
bond.
The four are charged with
setting fire to a 1965 Mustang
belonging to Brunswick
Motor Company of Southport,
and damage to the Yaupon
Beach pier. According to
Chief Hickman, quick action
by the Long Beach Volunteer
Fire Department saved the
end the pier from burning.
Hickman said his in
vestigation revealed the car,
which was found on the pier
early last Saturday morning,
had been loaned to John
Miller. The four other youth
reportedly held a grudge
against Miller, and decided to
push the vehicle off the
fishing pier. When the car
stuck at the end of the pier, it
was burned.
Assisting Hickman in his
investigation were the State
Bureau of Investigation and
Sheriff’s Deputy Tom Yar
borough. Trial is set for June
6 in Southport.