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Volume No. 21 No. 18 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 12-PAGES TODAY SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1960 5e A COPY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Terry Sanford In Brunswick GREETING—E. J. Prevatte, chairman of the Brunswick County - Democratic Executive Committee, is shown left as he greets the Democratic nominee for governor, Terry Sanford, Monday. Sanford spoke before an enthusiastic audience in the Shal lotte High School auditorium Monday evening. For Next Tuesday County Voters Ready Special Vote Being Held Tuesday On Industrial Development Commission For Brunswick, With Tax Authorization Needed Brunswick county voters will have an opportunity next Tuesday to vote on a special proposal, the establishment of a Brunswick County Industrial Development Commission. The proposed carries with it the provision that the board of commissioners shall levy a tax nat to exceed 10-cents per hun dred dollar valuation, to finance the activities of the commission in the campaign to bring in new industry and to advertise and pu blicize existing natural advanta ges of Brunswick county. The proposal has drawn a wide berth from candidates of both parties. Neither side has made a political issue of it, but no cand idate nor any leading offical of either party has come out en dorsing the plan. It is based upon a special act passed at the session of the Leg istlature, giving the citizens of Brunswick an opporuntity to vote on this proposal. Similar action has been taken in other counties, including Bladen and Rebeson, where it has been ap proved by the voters this year. Only one county in North Car olina which has voted on a simi lar proposal has voted it down. Those who favor the measure have been encouraged by the fact Continued On Page 4 Brief Bit* Of -NEWS-1 LIONS TO MEET Members of the Southport Lions Club will meet tomorrow (Thur sday) evening at 6:30 o’clock in the Community Building. BARBECUE SUPPER A benefit barbecue supper will be served Saturday afternoon, starting at 6:30 p. m., at Zion Methodist Church. Barbecue will be pit-cooked and proceeds will go to the church building fund. CANCELS APPOINTMENTS C. W. Harrelson, driver’s licen se examiner who is substituting for Jimmie Sessoms for a couple of weeks says that there will be no appointments at Shallotte next Tuesday because of the General Election. The next appointment at Bolivia, on November 11, also will be cancelled because of the holiday. BENEFIT BARBECUE The Lebanon-Mill Creek Com munity Development Club will sponsor a barbecue supper Satur day, beginning at 4:30 o'clock. Fresh, pit-cooked barbecue will be served and proceeds will go to the building fund for the Com munity Building. Hot dogs will be sold for children who prefer them to barbecue. Athletic Field Lights Turned On The lights came on at the athletic field for the first time last night, and coach Pete Lee ran his Dolphin football team through a brisk workout in preparation for their first night foot ball game in history here Fri day against Roseboro. Completion of this project was made possible by the co operation of the Southport Boosters Club, of which Mrs. Frances Key is president, and city officials. All of the installation except setting the poles, was done by the electrical force in their spare time from their regular dut ies. City Manager C. D. Pick errell served as purchasing agent for the project. Funds are still needed to finish paying for the equip ment, and solicitation contin ues in Southport. l Prominent Man Dies At Home Henry Lindon Clemmons Dies At Home Near Sup ply Following Brief Per iod Of Illness SUPPLY—Henry Lindon Clem mons, 65, died at his Supply home, Monday. Final rites will be held at Prospect Baptist Church at 8 p. m. Thursday by the Revs. C. D. Blanton, Harry Lackey and R. W. Rollins, with burial in the church cemetery. The deceased was one of the most widely respected citizens of Brunswick county. For many years he was engaged in the timber business and had contacts in every community, In addition, he was a leading Baptist layman and recently has headed a drive for funds for Campbell College. He was an active member of the Republican party and four years ago was his party’s nominee for Judge of Recorder’s court. Survivors Include his wife, Mrs. Stella Clemmons; three sons, Ed win Clemmons of Supply, Clifton Clemmons, with the USAF, Anch orage, Alaska and Clyde Clem mons, USAF, Plattsburg, N. Y.; a daughter, Mrs. John W. Lan- i caster, Supply; a sister, Mrs. Liz zie Sellers, Supply and 10 grand- I children. Active pallbearers will be H. W. Clemmons. Wright C. Clemmons, Leon McKeithan, Edgar E. Sel lers, Jr., Lindsay Clemmons, Jr., and Phillip A. Fulcher. Honorary ! pallbearers will be Dr. M. H. Rourk, Vander Clemmons, Robert and Aldreth Phelps, Clyde Hold van, E. J. Prevatte, Floyd Kirby, van, E. J. Prevatte, Lloyd Kirby, Dr. L. H. Campbell, R. ‘ H. Sore nson, George McCoter and J. J. Hawes. : Unusual Amount Of Interest Being Shown In State And National Races By Bruns wick County Voters This is one election where the chief interest in Brunswick coun j ty has been diverted from the loc j al ticket to the State and Nation al slate, and the largest turnout I in history is expected Tuesday. This situation has been brought about not only because of the extensive use that has been made of television, but because both parties have brought in some of their best talent in an effort to influnence the voters. For instance, this is the first time in memory that both cand idates for governor have spoken in Brunswick in the general elect ion campaign, and both Robert L. Gavin and Terry Sanford have been here, within the past 10-days. In addition, Senator Sam J. Er vin has spoken at a Democratic rally and William E. Cobb, chair man of the Republican State Co mmittee has spoken for his party. On the. local ticket S. Bunn Frink will be seeking election for his first term as a member of the House Representatives after having served for four terms in the State Senate. His op ponent is Cleyon Evans, Shallotte businessman and chairman fo the Brunswick County Republican Co mmittee. Earl Bellamy, now serving his third term as Judge of Recorder’s court, will be opposed for this ofice by Walter Wilson, Waccam aw township merchant and farm er. Durwood Clark, member of the present board of county commi ssioners, is the Democratic nom inee for Register of Deeds. He is a farmer and businessman from Continued On Page 4 Club Federation Meeting Friday New Agricultural Building At Supply To Be Scene Of Friday Night Meeting Of Home Demonstration Club Members The Home Demonstration Clubs will have their County Home De monstration Federation meeting Friday evening at the new Agri culture Building at Supply, accord ing to Mrs. Thelma C. Upchurch, Comity home economics agent. It will begin at 6:30 p. m. with a supper, and the program will begin at 7:30 o’clock. Those who have not already bought a ticket should contact a Home Demons tration Club member and do so. The procedes of the supper will go for the furnishings of the county agriculture extension ser vice office building. The club women have planned an interest ing program with Mrs. Mary L. McAllister, Southeaster district Home Economics Agent, bein the guest speaker. Articles that the home demons tration club members have will be Continued On Page 4 Terry Sanford Speaks Before Large Audience Democratic Nominee For Governor Speaks Of Plans To Keep North Carolina Progressive Terry Sanford, Demodratic no minee for Governor, rode into Brunswick county Monday night at the head of what he decrib ed as “the largest motorcade I have been in during my entire campaign” and was accorded an en thusiastic welcome by a crowd of more than 500 persons at Shal lotte High School. The meeting was opened by E. J. Prevatte, chairman of the Brunswick County Democratic ex ecutive Committee, who introduc ed the Democratic candidates for county offices. S. B. Frink, cand idate for the House of Represent atives, made a few brief remarks. Prevatte then presented Earn est E. Parker, who introduced Hector McGeachy, Jr., of Faye tteville, Democratic nominee for the State Senate from the 10th district. He in turn introduced Terry Sanford. The Demoncratic standard-bear er started off speaking from a prepared ext, but he soon aband oned this material and spoke to his Brunswick county audience about the things they wanted to hear. One of these expressed a con cern for the inlet situation, when he recalled that while serving in the State Senate he had introd uced a bill which would allow unclaimed tax refund money to be used to finance dredging and maintenance operations. Odell Williamson, serving at the time in the House of Representatives, hed introduced a campaion bill. At another point Sanford drew spontaneous applause when he said “If you elect me to serve as your governor, don’t sed a Republican to Raleigh; send Bunn Frink to the House of Represent atives, because I need his help.” With regard to the road situa tion, a subject in which the Brun swick county people have shown great interest, Sanford promised that he will get raod matters back closer to the people, espec ially secondary road matters”. He said that it ought to be possible to attend to these without have ing to make a trip to Raleigh. Sanford once more dwelt at length upon the school situation, saying that North Carolina has Continued On Page 4 Election Board Change Occurs Chairman R, O, Lewis Re signs And Tom Rabon Is Named Member Of Board Of Elections. R. O. Lewis resigned Friday afternoon as chairman of the Brunswick County Board of El ections because of poor health and the State Board of Elections appointed Tom Rabon of Winn abow to fill his vacancy. The new board met Saturday and organized, with Elrich Y. Hickman assuming the duties of chairman, a job he held in the general election two years ago. Lester C. Babson remain as the Republicans member of the board. Rabon is from Winnabow and was registrar for Town Creek township. Raymond Earp was ap pointed to fill this vacancy. Continued On Page 4 TIME and TIDE A front page write-up in our edition for October 30, 1935, re counted the tale of a marathon swim made by Lee Greer of Whiteviile from Southport to Wilmington. There also was a re port of the annual Brunswick Baptist Association meeting. Local shrimpers had made a big haul on Monday of that week; a suggestion had been made to change the name of the Bruns wick County Hospital at Southport to “J. Arthur Dosher Memo rial Hospital”; and Lt. Ralph Glenn had reported as commander of the local CCC Campi* Members of the Outdoor Writers of America had been to South port and Brunswick count;- for i meeting. This Was reported in our issue for October 30, 940. ne of their members who had attracted particular attention ' j Capt. O. L. Hawk, fishing ex pert and trick fly caster. Th, was big news, but an announce ment of even greater moment was that the Brunswick Selective Service Board had listed serial numbers for all registrants and were getting ready to make their first draft. This was also the week before the General Election, and it also was a year for the presidential election; hence considerable ac tivity and exciteinment in Brunswick. An old time fiddler con ConUnued On Page S our World Traveler— Southport Man Returns E. C. Blake wag back home Thursday from a trip he would never forget. The Southport merchant had spent the past 10 days on a whirlwind tour of points of inter est in England, France and Spain as guest of Hotpoint. The trip had been made possible through an unusual sales record of these appli ances at Blake Builders Supply. The Hotpoint tour had taken off from New York on October 17, and the jet airliner which took the men abroad landed first at London. After sightseeing tours about the English Cap itol city, the party flew across the channel to Paris, where their stay was prolonged when bad weather closed in the air fields. Once they were able to take off, their next destination was Spain, where they visited the cities of Seville and Madrid. They also had a side trip to Tang iers, North Africa. Following this interlude, the party returned to Paris, from whence they took off for their return flight across the Atlantic and to their homes. The Southport man purchased a camera especially for this trip and took 35-mm color slides at all points of interest. Just to be on the safe side, he purchased a few commercial slides from time to time, so that he will be able to show results of his trip as soon as he gets his slides back. The best black and white photo he came up with was one in which he is shown being swarmed by a flock of beautiful white pigeons in the plaza in the business district of Seville. Application Is Made For Permit On Fishing Reef Announcement Is Sent Out In Bulletin By Wilming ton District, U.S. Army Engineers » The Southport Developement Corporation has made application to the U. S. Army Engineers in Wilmington for a permit to con struct an artificial fishing reef in the Atlantic Ocean near Bald Head Island. Plans showing the location and details of the proposed reef were submitted with the application. The artification reef is to consist of old automobile bodies and boat hulls chained or cabled together to prevent drifting and is to be properly marked with bouys as prescribed by the U. S. Coast Guard. A Department of the Army per mit merely expresses the assent of the Corps of Engineers so far Continued On Page 4 Training For Fire Fighters Organizational Class For Volunteer Fire Fighters To Be Held Thursday Night At Leland A meeting will be held at Le land High School Thursday even ing at 7:30 for the purpose of organizing classes for the first rural volunteer Fire Department training course ever held in Brun swick county. This course will be offered by the Department of Trade and In dustries, Raleigh, through the Brunswick County Board of Ed Continued On Page 4 Southport Area CAP Unit Formed Work Begins On New Water Tank Workmen arrived Mon day and began errecting the new city water tank, a spec tacular project that is ex pected to be completed in about three weeks. The first leg, painted a brilliant orange, already has reched a heght as great as the old tank. Another city project in pro gress this week is the old sur face treatment that is being given to 10,400-feet of marl covered streets. Most of these are in new residential areas. One block in front of B. C. T. is being paved with asphalt. Survey Planned For Students Off-Campus College Course Students To Seek Infor mation From Club Offici als The off-campus college course, class (Home School Community Relations), instructed by Super intendent J. G. Long, is making a survey of the opinion of the people of Brunswick County con cerning their local school, the County school and the N. C. State School System. Various civie club offficals throughout the county have been and will be contacted by an as signed member of the class j and will be asked a number of questions in regards to his or her feeling concerning the pur pose and efficietncy if their school and the organization that the per son interviewed represent. The of ficial wil then be asked in what way that he feels the schools can better serve this purpose and help his organization serve theirs. He also will be asked to list any comylaints that he may have or has had concerning local schools and the class members will at tempt to give whatever informa tion, at their disposal, that the club official may desire. The completed survey sheets j will then be returned to the class evaluted, discussed, compiled and an attempt made to find methods whereby the suggestions and com pliants may be best met,provided they are considerer valid and for the best overall interest of the school children. This survey will be a part of the regular assigned Work of the class, although the group has consented to make available their findings to the Brunswick County Board of Education for use of that group in further improve Continued On Page 4 | Big Group Of High-Ranking Officials Attended Orga nizational Meeting Thurs day Evening Last Thursday night about thir ty local citizens met in the Brun swick county courthouse to listen to a group of CAP officers pre sent the CAP Story through the use of an interesting movie narrated by Jimmy Stewart, talks, and a question and answer per iod. CAP Officers present included Lt. Colonel Sidney Wilson, Group 8 Commanding Officer; Major Emanuel K. Adams, Captain Bob Owens, and 1st Lt. I. F. (Bud) Quist of the North Carolina Wing^ Headquarters; Captain Henry L.' Carter, commanding officer of the Brunswick County CAP Squad ron, and his assistants, Lt. J. D. Sellers and Lt. Wilson Arnold; Lt. Charles Cartland, commanding officer, Myrtle Beach CAP Squad ron; and Captain Fundy Frye, commanding officer, Federal Point CAP Squadron. After the mission of the Civil Air Patrol for this area was des cribed, and the pitfalls and diffi culties of establishing an effect ive CAP unit were explained, another meeting was called for Monday night in the Courtroom. On Monday night Captain Car ter returned to Southport with word that Colonel Wilson had recommended the establishment of a local unit to be known as the Southport Flight, Brunswick County CAP Squadron. The Southport Flight will operate under the administrative control of the Brunswick County CAP Continued On Page 4 Referendum On Cotton Dec. 13 Increase In National Acre age Allotment Will Mean Increase For County Far mers i The Secretary of Agriculture has announced an increased Na tional acreage allotment of 18,45 8,424 acres for the 1961 cotton crop, according to Lonnie Evans, chairman of the Agriculture Stab ilization and Conservation for Committee Brunswick county and North Carolina’s share of this National allotment is 508,810 acres, an increase of 7.2 percent. A marketing quota referendum has also been scheduled for Dec-1 ember 13, 1960. In connection with this all im- ' portant marketing quota refer endum for the 1961 crop, Evans cautioned farmers to study the issues that they will be voting on in cotton morketing guota re ferendum. "To begin with’’ he said, “farmers should remember that the choice of overplanting the regular cotton allotment and j Continued On Fage 4 REA Membership Meeting Is Held All Day Friday Estimated 4,000 Persons At tend Annual Meeting Held In Whiteville Tobacco Warehouse Some 4,000 persona crowded the spacious Smith warehouse on US 701 bypass north, Friday for the annual meeting of the Brunswick Electric Membership Corp. The group represented users from Columbus, Brunswick, Bla den and Robeson counties. The members re-elected the board of directors, and heard Dr. H. B. James, dean of agriculture at North Carolina State college talk. The 65 employees of the the REA-sponsored organization were given special recognition by Dr. E. D. Bishop, manager, for their excellence and loyalty in service. He noted they represent a total of 473 years of service. Among reports given to the membership were those that in dicated the consumers have spent over $18 millions in wiring and home appliances to use electricity; That membership has grown in 21 years from 1,400 to over 10, 000; the system has grown from 477 miles of line to 1,833 miles; that power is used now at 280 kilowatt hours per person against the initial 38 kw. Bishop said he expects the power demand to double in tha next five years, that membership of 12,700 is expected by 1970. He said new facilities will be needed to meet these demands. Among those presented on the station were Avery Thompson, a director of the state REA; Harry Mintz of Shallotte, a former state | REA director; Congressman Alton Lennon, and GOP candidate for Congress, Joel Clifton. Gwyn B. Price, state REA chairman, introduced Dr. James. James talked about the chang ing world in which we are living and said that people must be willing to modify their ideas so everyone can get a fair share of goods, services and needs. Also presented were Jeannie Tart, David Ward and Erdena Grissett, essay contest winners. Their papers were read to tha group. Re-elected as directors were: J. B. Ward, Jr., Longwood; P, E. Lay, Tabor City R3; L. C. Bat ten, Whiteville R2; C. D. Branch, Evergreen—he is chairman; Roy ; Swain, Winnabow; j H. D. White Jr., Chadboum; T D. Lindsay, Shallotte; R. T. Mer ! cer, Bolivia; Frank D. Inman, ! Ash; Dennis Anderson, Cerro Gor j do, and M. M. Ray, Nakina. Amendment In ASC Regulation | Have To Do With Use Of ! Tobacco Land For Pur pose Of Interplanting Of Other Crops With Tobacco There has been an amendment to regulations concerning crops that are to be planted in the same field tobacco allotment Brunswick A.S.C. official announc ed this week. The provisions of this new amendment are effect ive for the 1961 crop and affect the determination of tobacco acre age where other crops are inter tilled wiht tobacco. Uuder this amendment, if tob Continued On Page 4 Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s High Tide Low Tide Thursday, November 3, 7:34 A. M. 1:15 a. M. 7:56 P. M. 1:47 p. m. Friday, November 4, 8:16 A. M. 156 a. M. 8:36 P. M. 2:26 P. M. Saturday, Novembers, 8:56 A. M. 2:36 A.M. 9:16 P. M. 3:10 P. M. Saturday, November 5, 9:34 A. M. 3:16 A. M. 9:55 P. M. 3:50 P. M. Monday, November 7, 10:12 A. M. 3:56 A. M. 10:33 P. M. 4:31 P. M. Tuesday, November 8, 10:51 A. M. 4:36 A. M. 11:15 P. M. 5:14 P. M. Wednesday, November 9, 11:32 A. M. 5:20 A. M. 6:01 P. M.
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