EDITORIALS:
GOOD REPRESENTATION
At the close of the 1959 session of
the North Carolina General Assembly
we are proud of the representation
from Brunswick county in both the
State Senate and in the House of Rep
resentatives. We feel that Senator S.
Bunn Frink and Representative James
C. Bowman not only represented the
best interests of their county, but we
think that they did so in a manner that
reflects credit upon Brunswick and her
citizens.
There could be no higher testimony
to the high esteem in which these men
are held by their legislature collegues
than was shown b ythe visit during the
past week-end of some of the most in
fluential men in State government to
our town and county. The Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina, the Speak
er of the House of Representatives,
President Pro-Tern of the Senate, Chair
man of the Senate Finance Committee,
Chairman of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, Chairman of the House Fi
nance Committee, Chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee, other
colleagues from the ranks of the legis
lators, friends from the business world
—these were some of the week-end vis
itors to Southport. Not only do these
men know where Brunswick county is,
they have honored us by their presence.
And this says more than words can
tell of the good impression that Senator
Frink and Representative Bowman
made upon the folks in Raleigh during
the past session of the State Legislature.
LIBRARY FACILITIES
Open House was held for the South
port Public Library Friday evening in
the new quarters on the second floor
of the City Hall, and fortunately the re
sults of this project afford plenty of
credit to be passed out to all to whom
credit is due.
First, we think, are the foresighted
founders of the Southport Public Li
brary, whose efforts go back to the
summer of 1909. Under the watch care
of the Southport Woman’s Club it serv
ed this community for many years, most
of that time while housed in one wing
of the Garrison Building, more recently
while quartered in one of the rooms at
the Community Building.
The project for revitalizing the
Southport Public Library had its begin
ning during the time of the last city ad
ministration, and to those men and to
the City Manager belong much credit
for envisioning a modern facility which
would be a source of pride for the citi
zens of this community. Not only was
the second floor of the City Hall offer
ed as quarters, but much time and labor
has gone into making this a suitable
home for the good books that comprise
a lending library. Not the least of their
contributions was to form a Southport
Library Board of Trustees which has
been responsible for planning and car
rying out the details of the operation.
Then there is credit due the members
of the present hoard of aldermen and
the mayor, because their willingness to
include in the new budget an appro
priation for the operation of the South
port Public Library insures the future
of this project.
The job of moving the library was
sheer drudgery, and that goes all the
way from the city employees who haul
ed the boxes over to the City Hall and
lugged them up the stairs to the volun
teer ladies and young girls who helped
to cull out and catalogue volumes that
were to go on the shelves.
Then there is Beth Grimes, faithful
librarian for lo these many years; and
there is Miss Gertrude Loughlin, bring
ing the benefit of her training and ex
perience to this fine, new project. There
are the donors of books, particularly
our good friends in Southport, England,
whose generosity has extended across
the seas to help bring the local library
up to a new, higher standard.
All of this has been a labor of love,
and in the years to come the dividends
will be paid in the inspiration and
learning that will stem from these
shelves in the tall, white building sen
tinel in Franklin Square.
ABOUT TOLL CHARGES TO WILMINGTON
During the past few days we have
learned that there is a distant possi
bility that telephone toll charges be
tween Southport and Wilmington may
be abolished within the reasonable fu
ture, and we have been further inform
ed that the initiative for this action
rests with the telephone subscribers.
In order to compensate for loss of
revenue now resulting from existing toll
fees between these two places, it may
be necessary to make a small increase
in the monthly telephone bill for South
port subscribers. But for most of us,
this will be negligible when compared
to the great savings and convenience
that toll-free service to Wilmington
wTould provide.
If within the next fewr days you are
approached on this subject, we invite
you to learn the facts, then give serious
consideration to joining a movement to
remove toll charges on Southport-Wil
mington telephone calls. Meanwhile,
phone us or write us or tell us in per
son what you think of this idea. Public
demand is the thing most likely to
bring it about.
TAKE IT EASY OVER THE FOURTH
Eight started out, seven ended up in
a mortuary and one in a hospital se
riously injured. That is what a news
story stated a few days ago. It didn’t
happen in this county but it could have.
It does happen to a degree most every
week.
With Fourth of July weekend coming
up with its heavier-than-usual traffic
the holiday will probably be tragic for
some. Who? We don’t know. It could
be you or any one or several of us. But
it does not have to be.
If you must travel during the long
holiday weekend do not get in a hurry.
Careless speeding on the highway is
taking a terrible toll, even in our own
community. These heart-breaking, body
crushing automobile accidents that kill
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Southport, N. C.
JAMES M. HARPER, JR.. Editor
Catered as second-class matter April 20. 1028
at the Post Office at Southport, N. C.p under
the Act of March 3. 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Brunswick and Adjoining Counties
and Service Men . $2.00 per year
Six Months . $1.50
Elsewhere in United States — $3.00
Per Year;—6 Months . $2.00
and maim are happening to some who
are close to us, many of whom were
right in so far as the law was concern
ed, but evenso are now dead or serious
ly injured now. So drive with spec'al
care at all times, especially during the
heavy holiday weekend traffic.
July 4th is Independence Day and it
is well to keep in mind its great signi
ficance, but why not let it be the day
motorists declare their independence
from those forces, evil or otherwise,
that seem to compel many of them to
dash forth onto crowded highways and
cause untold havoc, suffering and sor
row, to say nothing of monetary loss of
property and earning power.
The automobile, in itself is not dan
gerous, neither is dynamite, until man
takes over. When these instruments of
death and destruction fall into the
hands of careless and irresponsible peo
ple trouble, in big doses, follow.
The practice, by all drivers, of “cour
tesies of the road” will materially help
in reducing highway accidents.
You must make your own religion, and it is
only what you make yourself which will be of
any use to you.—Mark Rutherford.
In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always
leave room for the mouse.—Saki (Hector Hugh
Munro).
Salary is an amount of money no matter
how large it is the sum people spend more than.
•That Texas oilman was sure lucky when his
car went out of control and smashed into nine
other cars. It happened in his own garage.
BUNG *M BACK flftE/
By HENRY BELK, Editor
Goldsboro News-Argus
What America needs today is
to return to yaupon tea, the once
famous Indian drink. So says
Mayor Clinton Bellamy of this
beach resort on the southern edge
of North Carolina.
Backed by his official town
board, Bellamy today launched a
campaign which has as its pur
pose the revival of the use of
the tea which the Indians prized.
This same tea, made from the
leaves of the yaupon tree, enabled
the Colonists to resist the British
tea tax, first step in the Amer
ican revolution. The indignant
Colonists took to drinking yaupon
instead of British tea.
The Indians had prized the
heady brew of yaupon for its
medicinal qualities.
Ben Dixon MacNeill in “The
Hatterasman" writes that the
mountains of western North Car
olina made each spring the 400
mile journey to the North Caro
lina coast to purge themselves
of winter’s ills by a session of
yaupon tea drinking. They
brought with them artifacts which
they exchanged for the bracing
yaupon, MacNeill says. This
spring trek to the coast to drink
yaupon may explain why some
artifacts of the Cherokees have
been dug up around Hatteras.
Campaign Flans
Mayor Bellamy’s plans to offer
all America the benefits of yau
pon tea have been thought oul in
some detainl.
The official seal of his town
will be the yaupon bush or tree.
It is expected to be used on all
official village records and cor
respondence. All 30 of the year
round resident families will be
expected to use correspondence
paper which bears the insigne of
the town.
“There were so many of the
green and inviting yaupon bushes
here originally,” says Mayor Bel
lamy “that our people picked this
name, Yaupon Village. As we
cleared the hv.hd’-eds of acres ly
ing two blocks from the Atlantic
and put down streets, we tied
wherever possible to have the
yaupon trees. You will see them
everywnere.
“And it is the wish," he con
tinued, “of the town board that
every care and precaution be
taken to extend, preserve and en
large the yaupon growth."
Bellamy even speaks of an an
nual festival at which “Miss Yau
pon” which would be crowned.
He would have the annual session
of the American Society for the
Propagation and Restoration of
Yaupon Tea fall at the time of
the festival.
“And certainly," he continues,
“there would be free yaupon tea
for all who came.
“It would do the people no end
of good. It would brighten their
eyes, lift their spirits, steady
trembling hands, and give new
ambition. Most important, yaupon
tea drinking would give new
ambition, new confidence and new
calmness.
“This is a great venture upon
which we are entering and we
welcome the organization of Yau
pon Society branches everywhere
there is one man or woman who
has known the real yaupon.”
Offer to Public
And rmturallv back of Mayor
Bellamy’s mind is the idea that
the business of distributing vau
pon tea may be revived and flour
ish again. Once the residents of
the Outer Banks carried on a
thriving business of collecting,
drying and preparing yaupon
leaves to satisfy the up-country
craving for the drink, which by
the way looks much like real tea
when brewed. Shiploads of the tea
were shipped each year. And at
Ocracoke a yaupon manufactur
ing plant operated until a few
years ago.
Then the trade began to lan
guish. This may have had its
start in jealousies existing be
tween some Hatteras villages.
Kennakeet apparently was once
the yaupon capital. But the other
villages began to deride Kenna
keeters as yaupon eaters, and
this fifth column attack insidious
ly caused all yaupon users to be
a bit selfconscious. Both MacNeill
and David Stick chronicle this
folk story, but in differing de
tail.
In the immediate past the
Home Demonstration Club women
of Cartaret County have' had
their own yaupon project. They
prepared the leaves according to
the ancient recipe, packed it in
plastic bags, attached the legend
of yaupon and offered the pack
age in Beaufort and Morehead
City. They couldn’t supply the
demand.
"With the hundreds of yaupon
trees there are in our village,”
says Mayor Bellamy, "it is to be
hoped that a yaupon tea plant
will grow up naturally here. Man
for hundreds of years used yau
pon and found it good and good
for him. We can build a sizable
business by using this rare plant
which we intend to preserve and
propagate. Tennessee has done the
same thing for sassafras tea, dis
tributing it through super mar
kets. Yaupon Village can do it
for yaupon tea. It may take a
long time to work out and put
over the plan, but the project
is on.”
Southport Savings & Loan
ANNOUNCES
SAVINGS
INSURED
SAFE
3*1
MW
PROPOSED
RATE
The Board of Directors, June 30th, announced their intention of paying divi
dends at the rate of 4% per annum for the dividend period beginning July 1, 1959.
All money added to your Southport Savings & Loan accounts by July 10th will
earn credit from July 1st at the rate of 4% compounded semi-annually.
Southport Savings & Loan Ass'n
H. T. St. GEORGE, President
W. P. JORGENSEN, Secretary-Treasurer
The flag of Sweden was proudly flying in the
breeze of the waterfront at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. K. A. Huglund bright and early Saturday
morning as the man of the house showed his
pleasure over the outcome of the Johansson-Pat
terson heavyweight title fight of the evening be
fore . . . The stage was set and the distinguished
audience was in place, but the actors never came
across the stage. That was the sad story Saturday
afternoon and evening as some of the most dis
tinguished members of the State Legislature had
dinner on the terrace of the home of Senator and
Mrs. S. B. Frink. The Cape Fear river—about
which they had heard much during the session
just past spread out before them, but no deep
draft ship would oblige by parading past for the
benefit of Legislative inspection. A check with the
Cape Fear Pilot Association revealed that 11 p. m.
was the time for the next ship to pass, and that
was after hours for a group of men who were
planning to arise at 4 o'clock the following morn
ing for a deep-sea fishinp trip.
Talking about that trip reminds us that Sunday
must have turned out to be the ‘yesterday’ Lt.
Governor Luther Barnhardt was longing for.
“That’s when I want to go fishing,” he said yes
terday. The reason is that every time I go out
and the fish don’t bite the folks say to me, ‘‘Well,
you ought to have been here yesterday. That’s
when they were really biting.” Reports from the
Sunday trip indicate that the Lieutenant Governor
hit it right on the head this trip . . . Naturally,
there was right much excitement out at Dosher
Memorial Hospital Saturday following the birth
of triplets to Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Miller of
Clarendon Plantation. One patient who was not
impressed, however, was George Williams of
Reidsville. who reported to Mrs. Hazel Spencer,
nurses aid, that he had a set of triplets, too, back
home in Rockingham county.
Rarely has it been necessary to apologize to
so many people about the weather as we have
during the past week-end. The bad part of it is
that there were so many distinguished guests in
cluded among the visitors, what with the delega
tion of fishing legislators and contestants in the
Carolinas Chess Tournament. Best we can do is
to invite all of these good people to come back,
with promise that it is most unlikely they will
ever again in Southport see three days straight
running as hot as these.
Auntie Marne”, with Roz Russell in the starr
ing role, is the week-end attraction at Holiday
Drive-In . . . Here in Southport “Raw Wind In
Eden,” starring Jeff Chandler and Esther Wil
liams, is the show for Sunday, Monday and Tues
day.
DRAW JURY LIST
Continued From rage One
Cumbeem, ft. N. Milliken, N. L.
Bozeman, Ernest Hobson Girby,
Shallotte; H. L. Brown, John R.
Corbett, Cecil Holden, W. L.
Royals, Supply; Paul Goodman,
Otto Long, Herman L. Hughes,
H. H. Jones, DeLeslie Inman, J.
C. Coleman, P. H. Russ, G. W.
Evans, Ash; C. W. Osborne, Del
mas Cumbee, G. E. Earp, Winna
bow; J. L. Blake, Lloyd Bor
deaux, J. L. Johnson, William E.
Nelson, Leland: Willis C. Sellers,
C. A. King, J. P. Mintz, Freeland;
Buster Harbin, E. B. Tomlinson,
Jr., James D. Ward, Southport.
OPEN HOUSE IS
Continued From Page One
State Library Commission which
will provide a revolving loan of
books.
Miss Gertrude Lo ghlin has bee
Miss Gertrude Loughlin has
been elected librarian, and Miss
Beth Grimes will serve as her
assistant.
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Continued From Page One
ment of costs and a fine of $100.
Frank Bellamy was found guil
ty of driving with improper
license and was fined $10 and
costs.
Marvin Benett was found guil
ty of possession and fined $25 and
costs.
Ellis C. Bordeaux was found
guilty of drunk driving and was
fined $100 and costs.
Beach Round-up
By BEULAH H. FARRELL
The heat wave continues, even
on the beaches. No one can seem
to remember weather like this
on the beaches of Brunswick
county. Those lucky enough to
stay in the water are faring fine,
but where there’s work to be
done it’s plenty hot. Everything
is set for a grand Fourth, which
is the peak of the summer sea
son for the beaches.
• Long Beach has missed the
Sherrod family of Greensboro this
summer and it is hoped they can
come down again soon.
Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Moroney
and family from Washington, D.
C. are in the Lacy Johnson cot
tage and will stay four weeks.
Major and Mrs. H. L. Woofers
are spending their two week
vacation in their cottage on Long
Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Devane of
Heightsville, Maryland, are stay
ing in the Granger cottage for
the week.
The G. C. Smith family of
Trinity are in the Blowe 1 for
the week end and the Daniel M.
Halls of Fayetteville are in the
Blowre 2.
Frank Z. McCulloch and family
of High Point are in the Sandle
wood for the week.
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