THE STATE POST PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
VOLUME 44 NUMBER 33 16PAGES TODA Y SOUTHPORT, NORTH CAROLINA March 7,1973 10 CENTS A~COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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FRYING PAN LIGHTSHIP should benefit
from sale of this painting of the restored Fort
Johnston main building, a featured part of the.
Southport waterfront. The painting was
presented to the lightship committee by Steve
Sunder (left), father of the commanding officer
at Sunny Point who lives irvthe Garrison building.
Accepting the painting on behalf of the lightship
restoration group is Pierce Horne, chairman.
County Trash Ordinance
Still Under Consideration
An ordinance regulating
storage and disposal of trash,
refuse, and garbage was re
submitted for rewriting by
the county commissioners to
the county attorney at the
’ ^ hoard’s meeting in Southport
on Monday.
In the final draft of the
proposed ordinance,
residents would have to
remove trash, refuse, rubbish
and garbage from their
premises at least once a
week. Collector’s permits
would be required under the
proposed ordinance tor those
who collect, dispose, or
transport garbage com
mercially. These permits
would have to be obtained
from the county’s Health
Director.
During the board’s
discussion of the ordinance,
which was presented as
Aldermen Get
Zone Proposal
Southport’s Planning and
Zoning Board recommended
last Wednesday that the
town’s extra-territorial area
be zoned to conform with
existing use.
This recommendation will
be made at the Board of
Aldermen’s next meeting
tomorrow (Thursday) night.
The extra-territorial area
includes the area within a
one-mile radius of South
port’s present city limits. The
planning and zoning board
Poster Contest
Winners Named
More than 2,000 entries
were received in the poster
contest sponsored by the
Brunswick Soil & Water
Conservation District, held in
conjunction with the Brun
swick County Clean-Up
Campaign during February.
Cooperation in sponsoring
the contest was received
from the Production Credit
Association; paper for
making the posters was
donated by Federal Paper
Board Company, formerly
Riegel.
Coordinating the contest
were Mrs. Ruth White of the
Brunswick County school
system; Maynard Owens of
the Soil Conservation Ser
vice; and Milton Coleman of
the county Extension Service.
Judges were Mrs. Doris
Redwine, Roy Mintz and
Rusty Hughes of Shallotte.
Mrs. White said all entries
were voluntary: “This was
not an assigned project.
Students were asked to
participate, but no classroom
credit was involved.”
First place winners in each
class were awarded $25
government bonds; in
dividual school winners in
each grade received $10 cash
awards.
County winners were
Timothy Ron Galloway,
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has had jurisdiction over this
area since last July.
At a recent public hearing,
the planning and zoning
board had proposed to
recommend that the extra
territorial area be zoned in
accordance with a plan
submitted by the Department
of Natural and Economic
Resources. The DNER plan
had included only two general
business districts (C2 zone):
the immediate Sawdust Trail
area and a section on
Leonard Street.
The DNER plan presented
at the earlier meeting had
met with opposition over the
limited amount of business
areas to be zoned within the
> extra-territorial area. A
recorded objection was made
by Bob Thorsen at this
meeting. Thorsen maintained
that the restricted general
business zoning would be
a hindrance to private en
prise.
The original DNER plan
was defended at that time by
W.B. McDougle, chairman of
the planning and zoning
board. McDougle held that
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recommended by the State
Board of Health, Com
missioner J.T. Clemmons
made a motion that the or
dinance be passed as read.
The motion died for lack of a
second, but Clemmons
demanded that his motion be
included in the minutes. After
the conclusion of the meeting,
Clemmons’ motion was
struck from the minutes at
his request.
The ordinance recom
mended by the Board of
Health would have included a
requirement that garbage be
collected and disposed of
twice weekly.
OTHER BUSINESS
A presentation was made to
the commissioners by
National Cash Register
Company to explain what
data processing machines
would be needed for the
county to up-date its tax
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Water, Sewer
Bond Upcoming
Southport’s water and
sewer bond issue probably
will not reach the voters until
May, according to Town
Manager Alvin Kornegay’s
most optimistic estimate.
The bond issue, which has
been in the developing
process for about two years,
"has - to* receive the Local
Government Commission’s
approval before it can be
submitted to the county’s
Board of Elections.
The final sewer and water
bond issue will be about
$500,000, Kornegay said
recently.
Grants received for the
project include $144,000 from
a Coastal Plains grant. The
Department of Housing and
Urban Development also
approved $282,500 for the
project the first of this year.
The original estimate of the
project was $750,000, ac
cording to Kornegay.
However, Kornegay also said
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Yaupon Okays
Dune Ordinance
At a Monday meeting of the
Yaupon Beach Town Council,
a Beach Dune Protection
Ordinance was adopted to
control construction from
Ocean Highway to the mean
high water mark.
This ordinance was
adopted in basic compliance
with a county prototype or
diance. The county’s
proposed ordinace recom
mends that construction be
controlled 300 feet beyond the
mean low water mark. Ocean
Highway is presently 150 feet
from the mean high water
mark, Mayor Clarence
Murphy said, so the or-,
dinance was adopted to
control construction on the
ocean side ot Ocean Highway.
The road through Yaupon
to Long Beach is identified as
Yaupon Drive.
Commissioner Bill Smalley
and Murphy also pointed out
that the Corps of Engineers
had control below the mean
high water mark. It was
concluded that the county had
meant to recommend con
trolling construction above
the high water mark.
Other business included
acceptance of a house and lot
numbering system prepared
by Bill Smalley to facilitate
the delivering of mail. The
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Hospital Question Still
Undecided After Meeting
A series cl meetings held
here during the past week
apparently leaves Dosher
Memorial Hospital in the
same relative position as
before with regard to
receiving an appropriation
from the Brunswick County
Board of Commissioners to
meet an existing financial
emergency.
Last Wednesday, the
commissioners met and
named three new members to
the board of trustees:
Johnnie Mills, Ed Johnson
and Willie Ward. They
replace Fred Mintz, Tom
Rabon and Pawnee For
myDuval. Willie Beatty and
A.H. Gainey, Jr., remain as
county apointees.
On Thursday, a committee
from the Board of Aldermen
met with representatives
from the Board of Com
missioners to discuss the
problems at the hospital and
to come up with some
proposals for their solution.
Representing the City of
Southport were Aldermen
Mary McHose and W.P.
Horne. J.T. Clemmons and
John Bray were the Brun
swick County represen
tatives.
A special meeting of the
Board of Aldermen was held
Friday at which the report
from Horne and Mrs. McHose
was received. -There was
discussion of the desirability
of reorganization of the board
of trustees and a meeting was
set up for Tuesday night
between the hospital com
mittee from the Board of
Aldermen and the hospital
trustees now serving under
appointment by the city
board.
In addition to Horne and
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Board Of Education Meets
‘Initial Step’ Is Taken
For Southport Primary
The first step in obtaining a
site for a new Southport
Primary School was taken by
the Brunswick County Board
of Education in a meeting
here Monday night.
A preliminary survey and
feasibility study will be
conducted for an ap
proximate 20-acre section of
the Cottage tract which lies
northwest of town. A portion
of the prospective site is
within the Southport city
limits.
Attorney Davis Herring,
who was asked to report to
the board of education about
the possibility of obtaining
the site, said the tract would
be suitable — “if it fills the
need” of the school system.
He suggested that the board
have the Soil Conservation
Service examine the site.
The Cottage tract was
subdivided in 1891 but the
project “never got off the
ground,” Herring reported.
The original owners bought
back most of the property,
but Herring noted there are
[ two houses in the area under
consideration. These, he said,
probably could be by-passed.
At its Monday night
meeting, the board of
education also considered
preparation of “Educational
Specifications’’ for the
proposed primary school.
Target date is September, a
date which may have to be
adjusted, Supt. Ralph King
said, because of the great
number of matters which
must be attended to. The
Monday night action was
“The initial step” towards
the new school. King said.
ESEA FUNDING
In other business conducted
by the Board of Education at
the regularly-scheduled
meeting, Mrs. Frances Stone
presented a review of ESEA
Title. I and the prospects for
future funding of the federal
program.
The ESEA, Title I program
serves 861 this year and Mrs.
Stone said she doesn’t think
next year’s budget would
allow for any additional
students — “not with the
reduction.” The program is
operating on $425,000 budget
this year but expects about
$61,000 less for the 1973-74
school year.
The board also gave a
favorable response to the
suggestion that the principals
be supplemented on the basis
of additional ESEA teachers,
the same as state-allotted
teachers, if this could be
worked into the Title I
budget.
Budget requests must be
submitted this month, Mrs.
Stone noted. “Our program
will be planned within the
limits of the budget.”
OTHER BUSINESS
Other business before the
board included Architect
Jack Croft's report on
lighting for the athletic fields
at the three consolidated high
schools.
The board authorized
advertisement of bids for 48
lights, each of 1,500 watts,
and eight supplemental
fixtures, each of 1,000 watts.
Even after 1,000 hours of use,
the minimum light on any
part of the field would be 30
School Make - Up Days
Students in Brunswick County will attend school
this Saturday (March 10) to make-up one of the
days lost because of the ice and snow storms this
winter.
A total of seven days have been missed due to the
inclement weather. Other make-up days will be
Saturdays March 24 and April 19; then, four days
will be added to the end of the school year, post
poning the start of summer vacation until June 13.
foot-candles, Croft noted.
The lights would be erected
on four steel poles able to
withstand winds to ISO miles
per hour. No wiring or
transformer would be above
ground.
Croft also discussed plans
for site improvement at
Lincoln School. The
schoolyard needs regrading,
he said, and efforts are being
made to re-route traffic that
must now pass through the
school property.
The mother of a South
Brunswick High School
senior spoke with the board
members, asking that the
explusion of her son be
reconsidered. He had been
expelled because he
threatened a teacher; the
mother was not questioning
the wrongness of the threat,
only the severity of the
punishment.
The board noted the ex
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To Give Or Not Give
$20,000 To Hospital?
Whether or not Brunswick County
will give $20,000 for support of
Dosher Memorial Hospital is a
matter now under consideration by
the board of commissioners.
That amount had been promised
earlier, provided the hospital and
the City of Southport meet certain
conditions. Monday, County At
torney Thomas Horne said that such
funding would be illegal: “You
cannot leggally contribute one red
cent,” he said when asked for his
legal opinion of the matter. Tax
money, he explained, could be used
only for “necessary public ex
penses,” a category in which
hospitals are not included.
County Manager Jerry Lewis,
meeting with the Southport Board of
Aldermen two weeks ago, said that
while tax money is not available, the
county had enjoyed a profitable year
in non-tax revenues and it appeared
that the sufficient money could be
found.
Conditions that were set by the
commissioners were, among others,
that the City of Southport give
$10,000 (which has been done); that
L.T. Yaskell, chairman of the
hospital Board of Trustees, resign;
and that doctors resume delivery of
babies.
Stated reason for calling for
Yaskell’s resignation, the com
missioners have said, is that the
hospital’s present financial
problems are due to poor
management.
The City of Southport contributes
$3,600 annually to Dosher Memorial
Hospital, which Horne said is in
violation of the law.
Bill Kopp, chairman of the board
of commissioners, instructed Horne
to investigate the possible uses of
revenue-sharing money. The county
attorney said it was his un
derstanding that the funds could be
used for education, transportation
and health needs.
Kopp offered some prospect that
funds could be provided: “I can’t
argue with the law, but ... we need
to find the means to support such
functions that provide a service to
the county’s citizens.”
MORE THAN 2,000 entries were received in the
poster contest held in conjunction with the county
wide clean-up campaign in Brunswick during
February. The effort was voluntary, said clean
up supervisor Ed Clemmons: "These were not
graded assignments; students were asked to
make the posters and they did." The contest was
sponsored by the Soil Conservation Service, while
poster paper was provided by Federal Paper
Board, formerly Riegel. This random selection
shows the message put forth in most of the en
tries.