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Most of the News! All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 21 No. 35 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY “Publick House" ANCIENT INN—This is the foundation of an old Publick House” at Brunswick Town, uncover ed last summer by the archaeologist in charge of the project which is being carried on at that site under the State Department of Archives and His tory. Old records show that this building once was owned by Cornelius Harnett, Sr., father of the Re volutionary War hero.— (Stanley South Photo.) Bill Introduced In Legislature On Ward Plan Southport Would Have Two Wards, Divided In Just Same Manner That Pres ent County Precincts Are Located A bill reducing the number of voting wards in Southport from three to two and providing for staggered terms for town alder !■ on was introduced in the House Thursday. Rep. S. Bunn Frink of Bruns wick said he introduced the meas ure at the request of the South port Board of Aldermen. Under the bill, three aldermen would be elected from each of two wards. There are now three wards in Southport and two aider men are elected from each ward. The bill also states that the al dermen “shall be voted upon in the general municipal election by the qualified voters of the city Continued On Page 4 r B ARBECHE SIBBER A barbecue supper will be serv ed at Zion Methodist Church Sat urday evening, beginning at 6:30 o'clock. Home made cakes and pies also will be on sale. TANK DISMANTLED The job of dismantling the old Southport water tank has been going on for the past week, and this morning only the four legs of the structure and their sup porting i'ods remained. nor SH DAMAGE!) Reports from Holden Beach are that a house was blown from its foundation during the height of the strong winds which hit this ar<a .Saturday. There were no other reports of major damage, although ; usts were from 50 miles per hour or greater. Hill,!’ HEART DRIVE The Shallotte Jaycees, under the direction of their president, J. T. Clemmons, held a roadblock in Shallotte Sunday for the benefit of the Heart Fund Drive. They collected $26.69. Those taking part were Billy Gurganus, Winfred Williams,' Sam Inman, R. W. Cheers, Harry White, Thurston Mintz, Dykes Hewett, R. C. Ar nold, Grover Holden and Roger Hewett. s Decision Soon On Battleship Site Engineer Visited Proposed* Locations For Permanent Berth Of Battleship North Carolina Monday Cyril Adams, consulting en gineer from Houston, Texas, came here Monday morning to inspect the site that has been offered by the citizens of Southport as a permanent berth for the Battle ship North Carolina. Adams was accompanied by Thomas Morse, superintendent of State Parks and a member of the Batleship Advisory Committee, and by Hugh Morton, member of the Board of Conservation and Development and also on the bat tleship committee. On hand to greet them was James C. Bowman of Southport, another member of the Battleship Advisory Committee; C. D. Pick errell, Southport City Manager; E. B. Tomlinson, L. J. Hardee, D. C. Herring and James M. Har per, Jr., representing the South port Development Corporation. Prior to their trip to Southport the three visitors had flown to Morehead City where they had inspected the site at Fort Macon. After their visit here they inspect ed the sites at Wilmington and at Carolina Beach. The party was able to r -ach the proposed location at the mouth of Price Creek by means of a winding woods road that had been made passable through the cooperation of City of Southport forces. A bulletin board had been erected at the site, and pertinent charts and drawings were display ed for the convenience of Adams, who got down to the practical j factors which applied to getting i the ship into a berth at this loca Both he and the other two vis itors appeared to be favorably im pressed with the location,- although none of them would make any comparison between this site and others that had been inspected. Adams left Monday night to re turn to Houston, and before he left stated that he would make his recommendation within a few days. This is expected to have considerable weight with Battle ship Advisory Committee mem bers, whose recommendation will in turn be made to Governor Terry Sanford. Before the trio of visitors re turned to Wilmington, they and other members of the party were | guests at a seafood luncheon at I the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bow- i man. During the luncheon period Morton said that the selection of a suitable location for the battle Continued On Page & Chess Tourney Planned Here The Southport Chess Cham pionship will be held at St, Phillips Parish House on March 2. The games will start be tween 7:30 to 8 p. m. and all players must pay club dues. First prize will be $50, sec ond prize will be a United States Chess Federation Mem bership or Chess Federation members and third prize will be a North Carolina Chess Association membership. Cub prize for boys and girls under 13 years of age will be a chess book. The Junior prize will be a North Carolina Chess Association membership, for those under 19 years of age. Rabies Clinics For Brunswick Dog Owners Being Urged To Cooperate With Pro gram Aimed At Eliminat ing Rabies As Health Threat Beginning March 4 and continu ing through April 8, everyone in Brunswick County will be given an opportunity to contribute to a community effort with public health importance as a series of clinics will be held in all town ships for the vaccination of dogs against rabies, or hydrophobia. All a dog owner needs to do is to take his dog to one of the many clinics and have ■ him vac cinated. The fee for this service at these clinics will be $1 for the one year vaccine and $2 for the three year vaccine. All dogs should be vaccinated when four (4) months old. The State of North Carolina has made tremendous progress in reducing this human health haz ard but a continuous effort in all counties will be needed to era dicate the disease. The Brunswick County Health Department has obtained the services of a licensed veterinarian to administer the three year vaccine and four rabies inspectors to administer the one year vaccine. To comply with the North Caro lina Rabies Law the Brunswick Continued On Page 4 Arrange Dinner To Discuss Plan For Golf Course The Developers Of Boiling Spring Lakes Hope To Be Able To Proceed Imme diately With This Project The developers of Boiling Spring Lakes will be hosts at a dinner in the Southport Lions Club Build ing on Monday, March 13, which will be held for the primary pur pose of determining the de gree of local interest in the or ganization of a country club, com pete with a golf course. The developers have plans for proceeding immediately with this project, and their purpose is to give local citizens a first look at these plans. The dinner is being planned as something special, and no pains are being spared to make this an all-out effort to get the citizens of this area behind the country club project in its early stages of development. Harold Green, who recently has taken over as sales manager, said this week, “I believe that the con struction of a championship 18 Continued On Fage 4 Ancient Building Foundation Now Being Unearthed Work At Brunswick Town Exposes Ruins Of The First “^ublick House” In Use In This County By Stanley South During the summer of 1960 the excavation at Brunswick Town State Historic Site was centered on the uncovering of the ruins of an inn or “Publick House”. The mortared stone foundation was uncovered by the archaeoligist on lot 27, and measured 18 by 70 feet. There were six rooms in the inn, with a fireplace in each room. The rooms were only ten feet wide which gave little room for more than a bunk and a chair in each. The arrangement of the six rooms in a long row similar to modern motels prompt ed the laborers as well as tour ists to refer to the ruins as the '‘motel", however, such buildings at Brunswick Town and other English colonial towns were known as “Puplic Houses”. Here the tired traveler could find a lodging for the night, and food drink. Keepers of public houses were required by law to examine the papers of sailors and make sure they had written permission to spend the night ashore. If they did not, they were not allowed to be entertained in the public house after eight o'clock in the winter, and nine o'clock in the summer. During excavation of the “Pub lick House” on lot 27 the arch aeologist discovered three hen eggs buried in the yard, two of which had the chicken bones in tact inside the eggs. These eggs were buried before the Revolution, perhaps they were setting eggs that did not hatch. An interest ing observation in this regard is the practice of some people in the area today who bury the un matched eggs from a setting. Also of interest in regard to the public house ruins was the dicovery of a silver spoon that was made by Daniel Boyer in Bos ton. This object is one of the new Continued On Page 4 Southport Man Faces Charges Former Postmaster J. B. Russ Is Charged In Fed eral Warrant With Post Office Shortage J. B. Russ, 49, former Southport postmaster, has been charged with the misappropriation of post office funds and falsifying official records to conceal shortages. Russ was arrested last week by federal agents and appeared be fore U. S. Commissioner R. E. Lewis. He will be given a preliminary hearing on the charges in the commissioner’s office on March 10. Russ, who was postmaster at Southport during the first half of 1960 when the alleged offenses occurred, is specifically accused of making false reports showing more postage stock on hand than Continued On Page 4 TIME and TIDE ' * .' AWsJ It was the first week in March, 1936, and plans were perfected for the Brunswick County Basketball Tournament, to be played in the Southport gym. That famous old wooden structure had just been given a new bill of health when contractors had in spected it and had pronounced it safe for use for the tournament. Figures released from the WPA office showed that approximate ly 15-percent of the Brunswick population was dependent upon that source for their cash income. On our front page was a picture of “Little Coney”, already a legend in the water sports activity of the town; a wing of the old Southport High School building was being moved from the grove to the campus of BCT; and there was a helpful hint to the farmers: “Cottonseed Hulls Make Good Hen Nests.” There was a big front-page picture of a good looking boy in our edition for March 5, 1941. It was of Warren Wilson, Clemson College athlete, who was being billed at the time as a fine pros pect for the heavyweight boxing title. He has relatives here. There also was a front page shot of Bald Head lighthouse, which was being equipped with a radio beacon. It looked like a good fishing season ahead, what with word that the waters of the Cape Fear were literally teeming with small fish and local boatmen were having unusually good luck with whiting. On another sporting front, one upstate visitor, after hunting here for a few clays, had ventured the guess that there were more foxes than people in this county. You’ll never guess what was on the front page of The Pilot for February 27, 1946—a three-column picture of the Battleship Continued On Page 4 Fishing Pier Men F orm Organization j Two Brunswick County Men Named On Organizational Committee Of Newly Formed Promotional Group Thirty sports fishing piers of | the North Carolina Coast were represented by over twenty own ers and operators at an organi zational meeting of Fishing Pier Operators in the Town Hall of Atlantic Beach Sunday afternoon. Raymond Duke, Atlantic Beach explained that the meeting had been called to enable pier opera tors to agree on the nomination of these representatives requested by Eric W. Rodgers, Chairman of the Commercial Fisheries Com mittee, to serve on a committee to study the “trawler problem”. Nominated by the group in addi tion to Duke were Bill Robinson, Kure Beach, and Lonnie D. Small, Holden Beach. To serve with these three as an organizational committee of the Association of N. C. Fishing Pier Operators were Odell Wil liamson, Ocean Isle; G. V. Barbee, Jr., Yaupon Beach; C. W. Sneed, Carolina Beach; Robert L. Church, Surf City; Earl Thompson, Emer ald Isle; and Charles S. Walters,' Atlantic Beach. The group unanimously agreed that the three mile limit frequent ly mentioned was not a recom mendation of the sports fishermen in their petition to the N. C. Department of Conservation and Development for a solution to the problem created when commercial fishing boats trawled too close to fishing piers. The need for a strong organiza tion was pointed out by Shelby Freeman, Atlantic Beach, in cit ing insurance problems as well as sportsmanship, promotional, public relations and other activi ties beneficial to the sports fish ing public. Others attending from the SENCLAND area were J. D. Big ford, Dan’ L. Walker, Bryon E. Watson, Long Beach; G. V. Bar bee, Jr., Yaupon Beach Frank Collier and J. C. Bane, Carolina Beach; W. D. McKee, Surf City; J. T. Gresham, Jacksonville; K. D. Church, Surf City; and E. P. Bortz, New Topsail. New Small Grain Plan Is Proposed Dead Whales On Bald Head Beach The bodies of 16 black whales were washed up on the beach at Bald Head Is land during the past weekend and Wildlife specialists wrho viewed their remains said that they could find no evidence of injury. The assumption is that the whales were traveling in a school, and that they became grounded and were killed when the water receeded. A similar experience was reported from further up the coast. These two occurances ap pear to have been a part of unusual sea experiences dur ing the past few days. At Atlantic City literally hun dreds of bushels of clams were washed up on the beach. Senator Seeking Cape Fear Help B. Everette Jordan Urges Action In Connection With Cape Fear River Basin Of State By SENATOR B. EVERETTE JORDAN WASHINGTON—Once again, I have officially asked the Corps of Engineers and the Soil Conserva tion Service to take the necessary action to complete and submit to the Congress a report on their joint survey of the water re sources of the Cape Fear River Basin. This report on our State's lar gest river basin has been delayed entirely too long. I am very hopeful that these two agencies will present their report without further delay so the proper committees of the Con gress can begin considering the recommendations for ways and means to best harness the Cape Fear and develop its far-reaching water resources. The Corps of Engineers and the Soil Conservation Service have been engaged in a joint survey of the Cape Fear since 1957. On 1 numerous occasions, I have been assured the report would be ] forthcoming shortly. Nearly four 1 years have passed since it was 1 initiated, and still no report has < been made although all of the field work was completed long < ago. j About one-third of North Caro- i lina s population works and lives ] in the Cape Fear River Basin, 1 and through the years the area I has experienced repeated floods and threats of floods. 1 The absence of a water develop- s ment program in the basin has t meant that we have missed out 1 on a vast amount of economic r progress and industrial develop- v ment. j The Cape Fear offers tremen- s dous opportunity for not only de ConUnued On Page SI ASC Office Has Been Given Outline Of Proposal To Pay Farmers For Volun tary Crop Reduction A survey of all farms in Co lumbus county which produce feed grains will get under way in the next day or so by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee. The survey is being conducted throughout the major feed grain producing area which includes this county, as an advance step in connection with proposed fed eral feed grain programs now un der discussion. The proposals would include adjusting the 1961 acreages of corn and other feed grains. To put such a program into operation for 1961 crops in a manner which would be fair to all growers, accurate data must be obtained immediately for the possible establishment of feed grain base acreages for all farms in the major feed grain producing area. Such information will in clude the acreage history of corn, grain sorghum, barley, and oats, as well as the acre age devoted to other crops and laud uses, for all farms in the area where one or more of these feed grains were produced within the past two years. ASC community committeemen are meeting today to receive the necessary instructions and forms to make the survey. In Columbus county the 90 committeemen will make farm to farm visits to ob tain the needed information by March 10. It will be helpful if all farmers will list the acreage of all crops grown on their farm during the past two years so they can readily fill out the question naire when interviewed. The proposed bill before con Continued On Page 4 Brunswick Scene In Travel Show Hugh Morton Transparency Of Orton Plantatioh Will Hold Place Of Promi nence In Ohio A Brunswick county scene—a huge color transparency of Orton Plantation—will be a prominent part of the North Carolina ex hibit at the Ohio Valley Travel Show which opens Sunday at Cin cinnati. On hand for this event will be Governor Terry Sanford and with j him will be Hugh Morton of Wil- i mington, who took not only the \ picture of Orton, but one of the! Piedmont and one of the moun tains as well. Upward of 30 Tar Heels, led oy Governor Terry Sanford, Con servation and Development Direc-1 :or Hargrove Bowles. Jr., andj President Lynn Nisbet of the ] rravel Council of North Carolina, i vill man the state’s first travel iromotion mission to an out-of itate travel exposition. Target of their mission is in Continued Oo Page 5 Special Seating Arrangements At County Pageant Shallotte Jaycees Promise That One Thousand Seats Will Be Available In High School Auditorium For Coming Event Folks who have misgivings about seating arrangements for the Miss Brunswick County Pageant at Shallotte on the eve ning of March 11 can set their minds at ease, according to J. T. Clemmons, president of the Shal lotte Jaycees, this week. Clemmons says that County Superintendent of Schools John G. Long has tola him that special seating arrangements will make it possible to seat 1,000 persons for the pageant finals. "We don’t want anyone to stay away for fear of not being able to get in,” he said today. The two-weeks period between the final preliminary and the pro gram at Shallotte has been filled with busy activity, not only by the Jaycees but by the five final ists and those who have dedicated themselves to the business of try ing to develope a winner. Thera are new dresses to make, new routines to perfect and little flaws to be ironed out before tha Dig event on Marcn 11. Master of Ceremonies at Shal lotte will be Gil Burnette, Wil mington attorney and himself a Jaycee; and Mrs. Hannah Block of Wilmington is helping to get everything ready for the Bruns wick county finals. Tickets for the forthcoming event are on sale at Southport at Watsons Pharmacy and Kirby Prescription Center; at Shallotte at Cotstal Drug Store and Shal lotte Drug Store; at Bolivia at Elmore Motor Co.; at Leland at U. L. Rourk’s Grocery; and at Ash at L. C. Babson's Store and at Wilson’s store. Members of the Shallotte Jaycees also have tickets . for distribution. A special event that has been arranged for Wednesday night of next week is a skating party at Shallotte Skating Rink at 7:30 o’clock. It is being sponsored by the Jaycees, and proceeds will help defray expenses of the pageant. A special invitation has been extended to all contestants in the five pageants held in the county to be present for this oc casion. Wildlife Plants Now Available Sportsmen Have Opportun ity To Cooperate With Game Management Pro gram By Planting Strips Wildlife food plants for habitat improvement are now available to Sportsmen and landowners of Brunswick County, the Wildlife Resources Commission said this week. Wildlife Biologist Andrew Web er stated that “101 thousand bi color lespedeza plants in addition to sericea lespedeza and annual seed mixtures were distributed in the county last year.” Shrub lespedeza provides late winter food after the natural foods have been exhausted for quail and rabbits. The plants are perennial, shade tolerant and will grow on poor soil. Field borders, odd cor ners and old plant beds make Continued On Page 5 i 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 tbs Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, February 23 2:14 A. M. 8:46 A. M. 2:43 P. M. 9:00 P. M. Friday, February 24 3:08 A. M. 9:45 A. M. 3:39 P. M. 9:55 P. M. Saturday, February 25 4.02 A. M. 10:39 A. M. 4:33 P. M. 10:48 P. M. Sunday, February 26 4:53 A. M. 11:30 A. M. 5:22 P. M. 12:37 P. M. Monday, February 27 5:41 A. M. 12:15 A. M. 6:06 P. M. Tuesday, February 28 6:23 A. M. 0:23 A. M. 6:49 P. M. 12:57 P. M. Wednesday, March 1 7:02 A. M. 1:06 A. M. 7:28 P. M. 1:35 P. M.
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