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| VOLUME 64/NUMBER 7
SOUTHPORT, N.C.
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Our Town
County EMS workers say
they trust volunteer deci
sions, most times — page 2
Neighbors
The ‘Storm of the Century’
hit the Bmnswick coast 40
years ago this week - IB
* orecast
The extended forecast calls for cloudy
skies with showers likely Thursday
through Sunday. Lows will range in tem
perature from 55 to 60 and highs each day
in the mid 60's.
Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13
3:40 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
4:18 p.m. 10:27 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
4:41a.m. 10:48 a.m.
5:14 p.m. 11:20 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
5:37 a.m. 11:43 a.m.
6:06 p.m. p.m.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16
6:26 a.m. 12:08 a.m.
6:52 p.m. 12:33 p.m.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17
7:11a.m. 12:52 a.m.
7:34 p.m. 1:21p.m.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18
7:52 a.m. 1:33 a.m.
8:14 p.m. 2:01p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19
8:31a.m. 2:12 a.m.
8:51p.m. 2:41p.m.
The following adjustments should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10, low -7; Caswell
Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, high +7,
low +15; Yaupon Beach, high -32, low -45;
Lockwood Folly Inlet, high -22, low -8.
Separate
school tax?
You telT us
Should there be two county wide prop
erty taxing authorities in Brunswick and
the other 99 North Carolina counties?
Brunswick County commissioners want
the General Assembly to pass a new law
giving local school boards their own tax
ing authority. The commissioners say this
will stop the fighting between themselves
and members of the school board that has
marked budget passage the last two years..
The school board has not taken a position
on the matter.
County commissioners now adopt a
school system budget as they would a
budget for any other department of county
government and a portion of county taxes
goes to fund schools. Yet, an independent
school board is elected to govern public
education but does not directly control
local school dollars.
What do you think?
To let your voice be heard on this issue
you may dial one of two Pilot Line exten
sions. Your call expresses a "yes" or "no"
vote only; there is no opportunity to com
ment.
Votes will be accepted though Sunday
night. Results of the poll will be announced
next week.
Question: Should the General As
sembly grant taxing authority to the
local school boards in this state?
To vote yes, dial 457-5084, exten
sion 193.
To vote no, dial 457-5084, exten
sion 195.
The State Port Pilot
&&Pilot Line
THE TALKING NEWSPAPER
Photo by Jim Harper
A successful fisherman is one who knows when maximum
diligence must be tempered with maximum patience. This sue-'
cess story was enacted m the pleasant sun of the Southport
waterfront Saturday. ^
But action delayed
Program could aid
teens with children
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
More than 100 teenage girls in the Brun
swick County school system became pregnant
last year, and statistics show many will be
come pregnant again and eventually drop out
of school, Safe Schools project coordinator
Linda Shaddix told the board of education
Monday night.
Teenage girls also are charged more fre
quently than older mothers with child abuse
and neglect, Shaddix noted.
To keep young mothers in school, prevent
them from becoming pregnant again and help
them become better parents, Shaddix asked the
school board to support her effort to obtain
state grant funding of up to $75,000 per year
for five years to establish a teen pregnancy
prevention program.
School board members said they support the
concept, but were wary of committing them
selves to allocating the required matching funds
when they aren’t sure they will have money to
spend next year.
‘The goal would be to
help them become bet
ter parents and better
decision-makers.’
Linda Shaddix
Project coordinator
The state requires that one-fifth of the grant
money awarded be matched by local funds. If
the full $75,000 were awarded, the school
board would be required to allocate $15,000
per year for the project.
"I think this is a tremendous concept, and it's
probably something we ought to have been
doing for 20 years," said school board member
Bill Fairley. "All I want to know is what we're
See Aid program, page 10
X-rated
viewing
denied
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Democratic sheriffs candidate
Ronald Hewett Tuesday denied
charges leveled in a signed, notarized
letter delivered to The State Port Pilot
that he allowed a 1992 basic law en
forcement class at Brunswick Com
munity College to view a pornographic
video.
BCC president Dr. Michael Reaves
and Vickie Hardee, BCC director of
the basic law enforcement program,
said results of their own investigation
show the allegations against Hewett
to be groundless. Reaves said it was
Hewett himself who alerted BCC of
ficials on September 21 that the alle
gations might be raised during his
current political campaign. Hewett
asked the college to conduct an inves
tigation of the allegations at that time,
See X-rated, page 8
Water
studies
okayed
Long Beach decision
raises debate among
members, sewer foes
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
McKim and Creed Engineers, PA, of
Wilmington will conduct a 26-week study of
wastewater management and water quality is
sues for the Town of Long Beach, town council
decided Monday.
The study cost will be $24,500. Town man
ager Jerry Walters said that price was among
three closely priced offers received from firms
interviewed by council.
"I don't think money was the deciding fac
tor," Walters said.
McKim and Creed was chosen from among
15 firms which presented proposals to conduct
the study of wastewater and stormwater man
agement and water quality concerns for the
town. That list was culled to three by staff, and
council opted to hear verbal presentations from
four competing firms two weeks ago.
Council Monday night voted unanimously to
award the study to McKim and Creed with little
discussion. Only councilman Horace Collier
offered a reason for his support of the firm,
saying he liked its address of wastewater reuse
in its proposal.
While council members said little about their
decision in regular session, lively debate high
lighted an agenda meeting conducted for the
purpose of receiving citizen input on the night's
See Water, page 8
Public has
til Monday
to register
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Several important deadlines are facing county
voters who want to cast ballots in the upcoming
November 8 general election.
Monday was the last day to register by mail
on the new state forms obtained from libraries
or post offices.
But residents have another week to register in
person.
They may continue to register either at local
libraries, with local registrars or in person at the
Brunswick County Board of Elections office
near Bolivia until Monday, October 17,5 p.m.
Voters will elect a new sheriff and five county
See Register, page 10
Hazel still storm by which others are judged
By Jim Harper
Staff Writer
"It was October 15,1954," Mack McGiamery re
members, "and Hurricane Hazel hit Southport full
blast about 10:30 in the morning.
"We didn't have as good tracking for storms as we
do now, and they lost track of Hazel, and it hung off
the coast here about three days.
"1 called the Coast Guard about two o’clock that
morning and they didn't know where the storm was.
But by daylight the water was coming over the
bulkhead behind our restaurant.”
That was Mack's Cafe, which has since become the
Ship's Chandler, at the foot of Howe Street, and Mack
was there as the tide and wind increased, and he
*... I went out to warn them, and the wind
caught me and took me plumb to the end of
the porch and I grabbed the post and went
round and round,9
Mrs. Ruby Helms
remembers that the building was faring pretty well until, the shrimp docks along the
waterfront started breaking up and coming ashore.
"Then the lumber started pounding against the restaurant and tore us up.
"I stayed there until 10:30, and the water in the restau
rant was about waist deep — it was over the table tops
and the rubbish was starting to tear part of the building up
and ten-by-tens were coming through the bathroom doors.
"I said,' Mack, get out.’"
McGlamery did get out, backing across Bay Street so he
could avoid wind-driven debris as it hurtled toward him.
He crawled into the cab of his pickup truck that was
parked facing the oncoming storm, and rode the storm out
there.
When the storm subsided and he got back across the M
street into the restaurant he found that a refrigerator had *
washed across the room to the opposite wall. Yet a lamp . j
which had been set on a table earlier for illumination was ’
still sitting on that table, with a heap of seaweed and other ||