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Most Of The News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community No. 12 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. Volume No. 21 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1960 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Industrial Tax Proposal To Go Before Voters Members Of Board Of Com missioners Call For Spec ial Vote During General Election On November 8 Members of the board of com missioners in session here Monday passed a resolution calling for a vote in the forthcoming General Election on the question of wheth er or not they shall have the authority to levy up to 10-cents per hundred as an industrial tax. This action was taken after petitions had been presented to the board, calling for this action. The fact of their calling the elec tion does not imply their person al endorsement, although political leaders of both the Democrat and Republican parties have agreed to support this issue and to try to keep it free from partisian contro versy. following is the text of their resolution: "WHEREAS, Chapter 197-1959 Session Laws of North Carolina entitled, “AN ACT TO AUTHO RIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF BRUNS WICK COUNTY TO CALL A SPECIAL ELECTION FOR THE AUTHORIZATION OF AN IN DUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT TAX FOR BRUNSWICK COUN TY AND TO CREATE AND FIX THE POWERS OF AN INDUS TRIAL DEVELOPMENT COM MISSION FOR BRUNSWICK COUNTY”, provides that said Board call an election upon the duly presented petition of fifty (50) qualified voters of Bruns wick County to determnie wheth er it be the will of the qualified voters of said County that an amount, not to exceed ten cents (.10 cents) on each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) valuation of property in the County, be levied, such amount to be used for the purpose of encouraging and bring ing to the County new and diver sified industries and industrial ventures; and “WHEREAS, at the regular meeting of the Board held in its offices in Southport, North Caro lina, on September 19, 1960, a petition signed by one hundred fifty-eight (158) voters of the County was presented to this Continued On Page 4 Brief Bit* Of lnewsj BENEFIT BARBECUE There will be a benefit barbe cue supper served at Bethel Meth odist Church at Bolivia Saturday evening. Proceeds will go to the building fund. BAKE SALE Members of the general science class of Southport high school are planning a bake sale Saturday from 9 to 12 o'clock on the cor ner of Howe and Moore streets. Proceeds will go to buy labora tory equipment. SHELL CLUB TO MEET The North Carolina Shell Club will meet next week in South port, with members of that or ganization arriving here Friday night and remaining through Sunday. Among activities planned are visits to Bald Head island and to Brunswick Town. DEMOCRAT FISH FRY A Democrat rally and fish fry will be held Friday afternoon at the Dillon Ganey Service Station on Sturgeon Creek with the par ty members from Northwest and Town Creek townships as hosts. Congressman Alton Lennon will be the speaker and festivities are expected to begin at 5:30 o’clock. VY'OMANLESS WEDDING The sophomore class of South port High School is sponsoring a Womanless Wedding. October 6, at 8 p. m. in the school auditor ium. Several of the men around town and some of the high school boys are taking part in this ac tivity. On behalf of the sophomore class everyone is cordially invited to attend this program. BEAUTY CONTEST Members of the Shallotte Jay cee's are making preliminary plans to sponsor a Brunswick county girl in the 1961 State con test for Miss North Carolina. Tentative plans call for conduct ing their preliminaries in the five consolidated school communities, with the finals to be held at Shallotte. A meeting to discuss these plans will be held within the next few weeks and further announcement will be made. Building Streets -- '■ wy-'- ^ v WORKING—Equipment of Lincoln Construction Co. is shown at work construct ing streets at the Boiling Spring Lakes Development near Southport. In the back ground is one of the natural lakes that are the big attraction for the property owners. Brunswick County In Disaster Area Local Authorities Continue To Total Losses From All Sources Sustained In Hur. ricane Donna Brunswick county has been de clared a disaster area by Presi dent Dwight Eisenhower and Fed eral assistance will be made avail able to the county and municipal governments to take care of cer tain expenses brought on by the storm. A survey of the damage is now in progress, and this week County Agricultural Agent A. S. Knowles reports that crop damage in 1 Brunswick total almost $2,000,000. The biggest item was an esti mated $750,000 damage to the corn crop. Clarence P. Moore, Kegional Di rector of the Small Business Ad ministration in Richmond, Vir i ginia, has announced that Philip McCallum, Small Business Ad ministration Administrator, Wash ington, D. C., under authority of President Eisenhower, has declar ed the Counties of Brunswick, Beaufort, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven, Currituck. Dare, Hyde, New Hanover, Onslow, i Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender and Perquimans in North Carolina as distaster areas. Accordingly, Moore added, victims of Hurricane Donna can secure information and make application for disaster loans at a special disaster field of fice to be located in the New Bern Chamber of Commerce, 611 Broad Street, New Bern. The office will open today (Wednesday) and will be in op eration thereafter Monday through Friday from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., and on Saturdays from Continued On Page 4 Brunswick Will Be Represented School People From This County Expected To At tend Better Schools Meet ing At East Carolina Brunswick county is expected to send a delegation to Greenville ' September 27 for an Area rally sponsored by the North Carolina Citizens Committee for Better Schools. All school systems east of and including Vance, Franklin, Wake, Harnett, Cumberland, and Robeson Counties will be repre sented at this afternoon work con ference. The meeting will begin at 2 p. m. in McGinnis Auditorium on the campus of East Carolina College. An attendance of about eight hundred is anticipated. Those attending will have an opportunity to hear and discuss practical ways by which public education could be improved. Participants will hear an open ing address by Dr. Leo Jenkins, president of East Carolina Col lege, who will stress the import ance of local groups to school im provement. Small groups will then be formed from those pres ent to discuss practical methods of adapting the State-wide recom mendations of the Curriculum Study to the betterment of local schools. i Davis Herring New Alderman Davis C. Herring has been named by members of the board of aldermen to serve as a member of their body, fill ing the vacancy created by the recent resignation of Otto Hickman. Tom Gilbert, who recently was appointed a member of the board from the second ward, said this week that he will resign from the board, but this action has not been made official. H. G. Ratcliffe has been hired on a temporary basis as policeman pending the hiring of a replacement for Herman Strong, who resigned as chief of police, effective September 15. Heart Attack Follows Fire Mrs. Fannie Meares Dies Today After Being Rescu ed From Burning Home Early This Morning A 65-year-old Thomasboro wo man, an invalid for the past five years, died early Wednesday after being removed from her burning home. Mrs. Fannie Meares died about 4 a. m., today from a heart attack, according to Brunswick County Coroner Lowell Bennett. She liv ed with her husband, Albert Lee Meares; their son, Syrus Lee Meares and an 86-year-old sister, Mrs. Zelma Person in their home near Thomasboro on Shailotte, Route 1. Having fallen and suffered a broken hip five years ago, Mrs. Meares had been an invalid since. About 3:30 a. m., Wednesday, the husband awoke to discover that a fire had started in a back room of the wooden frame house. He, in turn awakened the son and together, they removed Mrs. Meares and her sister from the house. While being taken to a neigh boro’s house some distance away, Mrs. Meares suffered the fatal at tack, Bennett said. She was dead upon reaching the house. Cause of the fire is not clearly known, but is believed to have come from the wiring of the fan on a new heater which had just been installed in the Meares home. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p. m. from Beulah Baptist Church, near Hickman’s Cross, by the Revs. Elbert Sikes and Jennings McLamb, with burial in Meares Cemetery near .cala bash. Survivors include her husband; the son; four sisters, Mrs. Lucy Hosea, Pikesville, Mrs. Zelma Person of the home, Mrs. Eva Fuller, Raleigh and Miss Lillie Warters of LaGrange. Active pallbearers will be Bry an, R. B., Floyd and Edwin Ben nett, Wayman Gore and Hobson Meares. Boiling Spring Lake Property Is Incorporated Reeves Broadcasting And Development Corporation Purchases Holdings In Brunswick County It was announced this week that the 16,000 acre recreational and residential land development known as Boiling Spring Lakes, located between Wilmington and Southport, near the mouth *1 the Cape Fear River, has been pur-* chased by Reeves Broadcasting & Development Corporation, a publicly held corporation whose securities are traded on the Am erican Stock Exchange. The announcement was made by J. Drayton Hastie, President of the Real Estate Division of Reeves Broadcasting & Develop ment Corporation, and Hazard E. Reeves, President and Chair man of the Board of Reeves Broadcasting and Development Corporation, both former owners of the land constituting Boiling Spring Lakes. Reeves, who has been instrumental in the creation and building of several nationally known electronics companies, grew up in Wilmington. Frederick Willetts, President of Coperative Savings and Loan As sociation, of Wilmington, and who is prominently associated with several other North" Carolina or ganizations, is a Director of Reeves Broadcasting & Develop ment Corporation. Reeves Broadcasting & Develop ment Corporation operates elec tronics companies, television sta tions, and real estate develop (Continued On Page 2) Applications For Red Cross Help Close Saturday Preliminary Report Last Night Reveals That Most Of Applications Are Of Minor Nature The Red Cross Disaster Relief office in Southport has been crowded this week with applicants who seek help in repairing dam age caused by the recent visit of Hurricane Donna. . Clarence A. Wells, Red Cross Director for Area 5, has esta blished an office in the old post ofice building. He reported last night that there have been 303 applications for assistance, and that thus far $3,355.88 in purchase orders has been disbursed. Wells said that no cash has been paid out, nor will it be. As sistance will be in the form of purchase orders, made out to lo cal merchants or suppliers of the choice of the applicant. Wells said that there have been few cases of major disaster and that most of the cases have been caused by roof damage. These will be checked and verified by Red Cross case workers and cases will be reviewed by a board of representative citizens from all sections of the county before ac tion is taken. Wells said that Saturday will be the deadline for receiving ap plications. In addition to the director, working in Brunswick county are Mrs. Alice Lambert, case worker supervision; Mrs. Ileen Walcott, assistant case worker supervisor; Miss Dorothy Sullivan, case worker; Mrs. Margaret York, case worker; Mrs. Estelle John son and Miss Mary Kraft, assign ed as case workers to the Leland area; Leonard Koitweg, building advisor; and Miss Mary Jo Haw field, nursing arvisor. Health Survey Through Schools Consultants For Health And Physical Education Divis ion Of State Department To Visit County Raymond K. Rhodes and Miss Helen Stuart, consultants for the Health and Physical Education Division of the North Carolina State Department of Public In struction, will be in Brunswick County on September 27-28-29 for the purpose of making* a survey of the Health and Physical Edu cation program of the schools of Brunswick County. This survey will be the result of a request made by Superin tendent J. G. Long and wall in clude the programs for both ele mentary and high school groups. This will be the first of a series of visits of this kind that arrangements were made for last spring,” Supt. Long said this week. “It is hoped that valuabe recommendations for the enrich ment of this program in Bruns wick County will be made that Continued On Page 4 TIME and TIDE Dillon Jenrette, young white man of Waccamaw township, had been indicted for the murder of Louis W. Ganus. That was headline news in our issue of September 18, 1935. Four Bruns wick county officers, working on the case, had been mistaken for bank robbers while on a trip to Whiteville during the investiga tion. The Whiteville tobacco market was going strong and had set its sights on a 20,000,000-!b season. Rough roads had led to the postponement of school opening in Brunswick; Oak Island Coast Guard Station had been men tioned in an article in Motor Boating; and Sears was offering a $10 reward for the oldest Sears Roebuck Catalogue. Shrimp and shrimping dominated the front page of The Pilot for September 18, 1950, with a 5-column cut showing va rious phases of these operations. This was back in the days when headers got a nickel per bucket and there were shrimp to head. The Henry Bacon had arrived and had commenced dredging operations on the Southport yachet basin. The Whiteville tobacco market was over the 15,000,000-lb mark; members of the Outdoor Writers Association of America were coming here for a meeting; the first run of mullets of the season had been reported from the Swain Fishery at Long Beach; and the political campaign was ready for its kick-off with the Democrats to rally Friday night at Sballotte. Brunswick had escaped the force of a hurricane that had caus ed much damage in Florida, with only heavy rains resulting here. That was the good news foi September 19, 1945. Even with the war over .activities of men in the various branches of service still were in the headlines: Johnnie Simmons had returned to civilian life; Roy Dosher had arrived in Japan; Franklin Harlee Milles had won the Air Medal; and Japanese war criminals were in prison. Continued On Page Four Administer Oath To Young Lawyer William H. Smith Is Associ ated With Law Firm Of Herring, Walton And Parker In Southport William H. Smith was admitted to the bar Monday during open ing day of Superior court, and the oath of office was adminis tered by Judge Clawson Wil liams, who was presiding. Smith, who is associated with the firm of Herring, Walton and Parker, was introduced by Davis C. Herring. In administering the oath, Judge Williams said, “I congrat ulate you on entering the noblest and greatest of all professions that I know anything about. It offers you an opportunity to get rid of friction arising out of the turmoil of everyday life by your neighbors and fellow citizens; an opportunity to aid them to live in peace and harmony, and in so doing you will render a service far transcending any service or contribution you might make in any other capacity or in any other profession. “I adminish you to observe the fine traditions and the high ideals of the legal profession on all oc WILLIAM H. SMITH casions.” Smith is a graduate of the Uni versity of North Carolina Law School and passed the State Bar exam this summer. He is a na tive of Ruffin. He is married to the former Beverly Rentz, a na tive of Reidsville. She will go to work on October 1 with the Brunswick county welfare depart ment. The Smiths are Methodists and reside in Oaks Apartments. Superior Court Adjourns Tuesday You Can’t Run From Hurricane You can’t get away from a hurricane . . . especially a persistent lady like Donna. Take it from Mrs. Verda Wyncoop of St. Petersburg, Fla. “Aunt Verda” arrived for a visit with a relative, Mrs. Eva Marchand of Ash. Route 1 near Longwood, the day that Donna hit Brunswick County. The section was one of the worst damaged by Donna in the area. A resident of Florida since she and her husband retired from Poughkeepsie, N. Y. over two years ago, she had never experienced a hurri cane, though many had come close in the "Sunshine State”. She said she and friends an ticipated what really happen ed—that Donna would roar through St. Petersburg—and “hastened their departure” on a planned visit northward when they learned of the storm’s coming. “But,” she commented af ter Donna’s visit, “It didn’t do any good. We couldn’t get away from it!” Lions Club To Sponsor Dances Regulations Governininer Be havior Of Guests Will Be Rigidly Enforced This Year Saturday night dances will be sponsored again this fall at the Community Building by members of the Southport Lions Club, and a list of rules of conduct has been prepared by the sponsoring or ganization, who made it plain that no misconduct will be tolerat ed at these dances. E. C. Blake, President of the Lions Club, emphasized that vio lation of any of the above rules will be considered sufficient grounds for demanding that the violator leave the dance for the balance of the evening or, if the case warrants more drastic ac tion, to bar that person from at tending any future dances spon sored by the Lions Club. Any re peated violations of the above rules will also cause that person to be barred from future events in the Community Building. It was further emphasized by President Blake that the above rules were adopted to provide a more relaxing atmosphere at the dances and to insure that all of the young people who attend will not be embarrassed or hindered from having good .clean fun by the misconduct of a few. The rules are not expected to hamper the fun but rather to increase the enjoyment of all who attend. The following committee was appointed to see that the dances Continued On Page 4 Judge Clawson L, Williams And Solicitor John J. Burney Complete Work Of September Term On Second Day Tl}e September term of Bruns wick county Superior court ended Tuesday afternoon with Judge Clawson Williams presiding over the two-day session. James Rovce Bullard is head ed for a road term as a result of this week’s trial. He was con victed of driving after his li cense had been revoked and was given 8 months. He was fined $200, and his sentence is to be served concurrently with a simi lar sentence given him earlier this month in Columbus county. Robert Fulford pleaded guilty to common law robbery and was given from 5 to 10 years in the State prison. Leaman Simmons was given 10-15 on a similar count. These men figured in the robbery of a disabled war veteran several weeks ago and left their victim out in the woods behind Bolivia. He has remained in Southport since that time, await ing to testify in the trial. Dolo Bland was found not guil ty of assault with a deadly weap on and similar action was taken on the same charge against Don nie R. Bland. George Causey was found guilty on this count and was given 30 days. Richard Causey was found not guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. In another case he was found guilty of speeding and was fined $100; guilty of driving without operator’s license and was fined $25 and was found guilty of fail ure to stop and was fined $10. FFA Federation Plans For Year Several Events To Be Car ried Out During This School Year Are Discus sed By Officers The 17 chapters of the Wae camaw federation of Future Farmers of America have outlined 1960-61 plans, according to George Dudley, Williams, presi dent of the federation. In a meeting Thursday after noon at Whiteville, the FFA group set up three definite dates for competitions, and plan a ban quet for May 4. Tool identification will be at Clarkton, Nov. 10; Parliamentary procedure and public speaking eliminations at Nakina, Feb. 9. The livestock judging show will be held at Hallsboro April 6. Ta bor City is scheduled to be the site of the land judging elimin ations, but no date has been scheduled yet. All of the contests will be held at 2 p. m. and a point system, ranging from 17 for first place on down, will be used. Points will be used to determine chapter winning the overall banner. The location of the annual fed eration banquet is to be de termined later. ai “Nickels’ Vote” Scheduled For September 30th Nickels For Know-How Re ferendum Gives Farmers Opportunity To Decide Whether To Finance Re search Program | County Agricultural Agent, A. S. Knowles, reminds Brunswick : County farmers that they have a big stake in the Nickels for Know-How referendum on Sep tember 30 from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. “There are two major reasons why Brunswick farmers should make a special effort to vote,” Knowles said. “First, money col lected under the program is need ed for agricultural research and education. And secondly, the pro gram proves that farm people are willing to help solve their own problems. “Too often, we hear critics say that farm people are dependent on the government for every thing,” Knowles continued. “The' Nickels for Know-How program proves this is not true.” It is pointed out that the pro- • gram costs the average North Carolina farmer only 30 cents a year. Under the program, users of feeds or fertilizer have agreed ^ to assess themselves a nickel per ton. The money is collected from the feed and fertilizer manufacturers by the N. C. Department of Agri culture. It is turned over to N. C. State College for research and education. The program has been in effect for nine years. On September 30, voters will decide if the program is to continue for another three years. All users of feed or fertilizer and their wives or husbands are eligible to vote. Members of FFA, FHA, and 4-H Clubs are also eligible to vote if they purchase feed or fertilizer for crop or live stock projects. No advance registration is re quired. Voting may take place at the most convenient polling place. In Brunswick County voting will take place at Applewhite store in Maco, A. P. Henry’s Store at Winnabow. Mae’s Cafe in Bolivia, Midway Service Station and Hugh Spencer’s Store in Southport. Oth er voting places will be J. E. Kirby’s Store and County Agent’s Office in Supply, Vocational Ag ricultural Department at Shallotte School, J. S. Parker’s Store in Grissettown, Vocational Agricul ture at Waccamaw School, and Bennett Trading Company in Exum. ! Back Fractured | In Odd Accident Whiteville Woman Sustains Serious Back Injury In Freak Accident In This County Mrs. Charlie J. Powell is re ported in satisfactory condition at Columbus county hospital to day where she is recuperating from a back fracture sustained last Thursday about 9:30' p. m. in a minor auto accident. Her husband, operator of Powell Motor Co., today said he and his wife were returning from the beach about 9 p. m. Thursday. They were on the Longwood-Cala bash road in Brunswick county, about 2% miles from Longwood Continued On Page 4 Tide Table Following' la the tide table tor Southport during the next week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy ol the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, September 22, 8:30 A. M. 2:23 P. M. 8:42 P. M. 2:29 P. M. Friday, September 23, 9:12 A. M. 3:03 A. M. 9:23 P. M. 3:33 P. M. Saturday, September 24, 9:58 A. M. 3:44 A. M. 10:09 P. M. 4:21 P. M. Sunday, September 25, 10:48 A. M. 4:30 A. M. 11:00 P. M. 5:13 P. M. Monday, September 26, 11:46 A. M. 5:21 A. M. . 6:11 P. M. Tuesday, September 27, 0:01 A. M. 6:19 A. M. 12:50 P. M. 7:13 P. M. Wednesday, September 28, 1:06 A. M. 7:25 A. M. 1:58 P. M. 8:20 P. M.
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