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Most of the News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT :J !•»» «§»S '■>%? A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 21 No. 38 ! 0-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Watson Family HONORED—This is Mr. and Mrs. David Wat son and children of Raleigh, who recently were honored as the Family of the Year in the Neusiok Girl Scout Council. From left to right the children are Tom, Jill, Susan, David, Jr., Kay and Marion. The father is a native of Southport and is the son of Mrs. Ida Potter Watson. JUi 0/ lnewsj BENEFIT BARBECUE There will be a benefit barbe cue supper served Saturday eve ning at Bethel Methodist Church, Bolivia. Proceeds will go to the thurch parsonage. LIBRARY PHONE As an added convenience to its patrons, a telphone has recently been installed in the Southport Public Library. The telephone number is GL 7-6237. BAKE SALE The Women of St. Thillips Epis copal Church will hold a bake sale on Saturday in the old Town Shop. The sale will begin at 10 a. m. and continue through the day. PRE-SCHOOL CLINICS Pre-school clinics have been scheduled by the Brunswick Coun ty Health Department for March 24 at Brunswick County Training School and on March 31 at Lin coln High School. CANCER MEETING The Brunswick county unit of the American Cancer Society will meet next Wednesday at 8 p. m. at the agriculture building in Sup ply. Mrs. Tyson, Distinct Director, will be the speaker. Crusade ma terials will be distributed. It is important that every area be rep resented. OUTDOOR ART SHOW The Southport Artists Associa tion will hold an outdoor art show in the Franklin Park during the Azalea Festival, April 6-9. All artists are urged to enter this show and make it the success it was last year. The event will be listed in the Azalea Festival pub licity for the Southport area, and sales will be encouraged. Artists interested .should contact Mrs. Marie Ryne or Mrs. Gilliam Horn stein for further information. RED CROSS WORKERS Mrs. Harry S. Donnell, Jr., is Southport chairman for the Ret Cross Fund Drive and helping hei on her community committee wil be: Airs. Kendall M. Bruno, busi ness district; Mrs. Sylvia H Alorang, highway area; Mrs. Roj Arntsen, residential; H. G. Rat eliffe, county employees; C. D Pickerrell, city employees; James W. Smith, colored residents; Har old F. Aldridge, hospital; Mrs Roy Robinson, clubs and organi zations; Mrs. James A. Eaton Caswell Beach: Mrs. T. L. Smith Long Beach; Mrs. J. B. Warth Beach Road; and Mrs. Bryant Potter, Yacht Basm. ■ City Election To Be Under New Bill Recent Changes Approved3 By Board Of Aldermen Will Affect Forthcoming Municipal Election A bill introduced two weeks ago by Representatives S. Bunn Frink to redefine the wards and set ting out terms for holding a municipal election for the City of Southport, was passed into law Thursday by the State Senate. The House previously had approv ed the measure, which provides for two wards instead of three. Following are excerpts from the bill under which the next city election will be held on May 2 of this year: ‘‘Section 1. The City of South port shall be divided into two wards as follows: ‘‘Ward No. 1 shall be that por tion of the city lying to the east ward of the center line of Howe Street from the point where this line, projected, intersects the channel of the Cape Fear River; thence along the center line of Cape Fear Road to the northern j line of the limits of the City of Southport. "Ward No. 2 shall be all that portion of the city lying to the | westward of the above described line. "Section 2. Three aldermen shall be elected from each of the | two wards of the City of South j port and the person, or persons, filing as a candidate from either ward shall be a resident and qualified elector of such ward. “Section 3. The members of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Southport, shall be voted upon in i the general municipal election by the qualified electors of the ward from which the candidate has filed. The candidates for the Board of Aldermen from each ward who receive the highest number of votes in the town at large shall be declared duly elect ed to the office for which such | candidate has filed. ‘‘Section 4. At the municipal election to be held in May, 1961. two members of the Board of Aldermen shall be elected for a term of four years from Ward No. 1, as described in Section 1 above, and one member from ; Ward No. 2, as above described, shall be elected for a term of four years. Biennially thereafter, one member of said Board from one ward and two members from the other ward shall be elected, alternately, for terms of four years each. “Section 5. The Board of Aider men of the City of Southport shall prepare, or cause to be pre pared under its supervision, new voter registration books for each of the two wards above described j and said Board is hereby authoriz j ed and directed to transfer the Continued On Page 4 jc Frink Puts Dosher On School Board Representative S. B u n n Frink has included the follow ing names in the omnibus bill for appointment by the State Legislature to member ship on the Brunswick County Board of Education: Howard F. Williamson, Le land School District, and C. Y. Coleman, Waccamaw School District, 4-year term; Arthur Dosher, Southport School District, 2-year term. Both Williamson and Cole man ran in the primary elec tion last Spring to obtain a preferential vote. Dosher was not a candidate, but has been endorsed by a majority of the members of the Brunswick County Democratic Executive Committee, including the three members from the Southport School District. These men are Harold Ald ridge, Fred Spencer and Jack Crouch. Boiling Springs Will Incorporate Bill Introduced In Legisla ture Provides For Incor poration Of New Devel opment Boiling'Spring Lakes in Bruns wick County would be incorporat ed under legislation introduced Wednesday in the House by Brunswick Rep. S. Bunn Frink. About $15 million has already been spent in developing the 14, 100-acre area five miles south ol Southport, Frink said. The developers plan that the town will have complete inde pendent services, he said. The legislation would set up a governing body for the resort arcs similar to that in other coastal resorts Frink said. His bill pro vides that Harold Greene, man ager of the development, woulc become mayor of the town. The developers, Carl E. Kleirno, Hen ry B. Smytte, Grange S. Cuth bert III and Douglass M. Brad ham, a group of New York City and Charleston, S. C., business men, would be the initial com missioners. They would serve until 1963 when an election by mail would be held among all property hold ers. The elector would be super vised by the county elections board chairman. Those elected would be appointed by the Gov ernor. Introduces Bill For Commission To Handle Ship N. C. Battleship Commission Would Be Created By Appointment Of Gover nor And Would Have Charge Of USS North Carolina A permanent “N. C. Battleship North Carolina Commission” was proposed Thursday in <t bill in troduced by Sen. Lunsford Crew of Halifax. The 15-member commission woidd replace an informal com mission which is now trying to save the famous World War II battlewagon and locate her as a tourist attraction at some coast al Carolina port. Crew said there was urgency about the legislation, since the Navy intends to cut up the ship for scrap unless funds can be raised in North Carolina to bring her to the State by next summer. The bill requires Gov. Sanford to name the commission within 10 days after the measure be comes law. Crew told the Senate he hoped to have a public hear ing on it sometime this week, and then pass it by next weekend. No word has been received here Continued Cn Page 4 FHA Farm Loan Program Shows Recent Gains Farmer’s Home Administra tion Is Gaining Momen tum In This County And In Nation The farm housing loan program of the Farmers Home Administra tion is picking up new momentum, not only throughout the nation, but here in Brunswick county. That's the word from T. D. Anderson, county supervisor in charge of the agency’s lending program here. He said this re newed farm housing loan activity follows the early February an nouncement that an additional $50 million is now available to the FHA for its four percent loans to farm owners to build or repair farm houses and essential farm buildings. Such a loan may ex tend over a 33-year period. The new loan money broke up a log-jam of applications that were being held because funds had been exhausted. Nationwide, loans are now being processed at the rate of about $5 million a month but indications point to a probable doubling of that pace. In this area Anderson said he looks for the main demand to continue to be for loans for new construction, although farm own ers may need the cerdit to repair or remodel dwellings, put in mod ern kitchens, install pressure wa ter supply systems, central heat ing, bathrooms, and other con veniences. Other uses include building, repairing, or modernizing barns, dairy and poultry facilities, and other farm service buildings. Farm owners find much of this type of construction necessary to cope with changing agricultural conditions. Anderson pointed out that by products of this loan program in clude employment of carpenters and other skilled and unskilled labor, and increased business for concerns that handle building ma terials and equipment items. Eligible to borrow are owners of farms that annually will pro duce at least $400 worth of com modities for sale or home use bas ed on 1944 prices, but who can no t be adequately financed through other sources. Distribute Food On Trial Basis The Commissioners Will Go Along With Distribution Of Surplus Commodities For 60-Day Period Members of the board of county commissioners decided Monday to try the surplus food distribution program in Brunswick for a pe riod of 60 days and appointed Kenneth Hewett to serve as supervisor. His salary was set at $200 per month. The old agriculture building at Supply will be used as a storage warehouse, and at least for the time being no perishables will be distributed. It is estimated that 500 families Continued On Page 4 pasmi'.' m i *.m*. . $ • . TIME and TIDE ' 1 .• ...<.K m _.'«_ There was a historic note on the front page of The Pilot for March 25, 1936: There was a story that the grave of Elizabeth Watters is at Phoenix in Brunswick County, she being a daught er of Thomas Hooper, he a signer of the Declaration of Indepen dence. There also was a story that Elmore Motor Co., the Chev rolet dealer at Bolivia, had moved into a newly completed build ing across the road from its old location. The Navy YP-56, formerly the Coast Guard Patrol Boat Nau gatuck that had been stationed at Southport for several years, had stopped here on her way to her new base in the Panama Canal Zone. Willetts Motor Co. had an advertisement extolling the virtues of Ford automobiles and offering them for sale at from $510 up—new cars, mind you! Back in 1941 Southport High School had a debating team, and on the Friday following our issue for March 26 the local teams were to go against representatives from Whitevillc and Bladen boro in the famous triangular debat s of that era. The querry? “Resolved that the United States should require one year of mili tary training for every able bodied man before he is 23-years of-age.” Southport ladies already were doing war-service work, but at the moment the British were to be the beneficiaries. A call had been issued for nominating conventions, the pre lude to the municipal election for the City of Southport; and there was a want ad in The Pilot, placed by a High Point manu facturer, wanting to buy dogwood logs. The big news in The Pilot for March 20, 1946, was that L. T. Yaskell had tendered his resignation as postmaster at Southport in order to move to East Orange, N. J., and go into private busi ConUnued On Page i I Official Guide ^Tv-rr.^fv •* AUTHENTIC—The young man jn the above photo is not one of the early settlers of Brunswick, but is R. V. Asbury, Jr., of Wilmington, who conducts visitors on tours of Brunswick Town on weekends. Costumed Guide At Old Brunswick 3 Members Get New Placques C. D. Pickerrell, secretary of the Southport Development Corporation, Inc., has recently mailed out attractive new membership plaques, along with a statement of dues for the coming year. He said this week that he is pleased with the early response, but wishes to remind members that their dues are needed to pay the expenses of the corporation. Pickerrell reported that this wek he has had a contact from an outside business in terest which he hopes to be able to attract into this area. An inspection trip is in pro spect. Variety Show Is Presented Here St. Patrick’s Day Event At tracts Large Audience With Scores Of School Students Participating A St. Patrick’s Day variety show was presented at Southport High School Friday evening, with i large student participation and in overflow audience. Directing the production, which included lavish costumes and pretty song and dance routines, was Mrs. Dallas Pigott. She was issisted by Mrs. E. J. Prevatte, Mrs. Bryant Potter, Mrs. W. Ft. Jenkins, Mrs. Johnnie Duffie, Mrs. Davis Herring and Mrs. James Barnes. Appropriate for the day, most of the games were Irish. In fact, the scene was set for the entire show with an opening tableaux ibout fairies and the little people. Featured performers included Martha Mallison, Brenda Pender graph and Brenda Jordan singing ‘Pretty Kitty Blue Eyes”; Cheryl Price and Brenda Wilkes, sing ing "Rose of Tralee”; and David Ray Garrish, singing "A Little Bit Of Heaven.” At the conclusion of the pro gram. the latter led the audience in singing a medley of Irish 3ongs. Mrs. Duffie served as emcee in presenting the Students of the Year for the school, with awards being passed out by Cheryl Rog ers, Miss Southport, and Harold Dosher, president of the student Continued On Page 4 •Weekend Visitors To His toric Site In Brunswick County Have Look Into | The Past Thousands of visitors from North Carolina and many other states have been conducted on tours of Brunswick Town, a re clamation project on the west bank of the Cape Fear river 12 miles above Suothport, during the past two years, Stanley South, archaeologist in charge, said this week. The big undertaking of uncover ing the extensive ruins of the colonial town was begun two years ago by the State Department of Archives and History. Visitors to the State Historic! Site in Brunswick County are: greeted each Sunday by Guide! R. V. Asbury, Jr., dressed in the] clothes of the type worn by Brunswick's peopl emore than 200 years ago. The young Wilmingtonian is thoroughly familiar with the his tory of Brunswick Town, which was established in 1723 and abon doned, after its destruction by the British, in 1776. The hundreds of visitors to the site last Sunday asked Asbury many questions. Some of the ques tions are tough ones, and cause him to turn to the records for an answer. Others he hears over and over again, such as “Where did these stones in the foundations of the homes come from? What happened to the people who lived in the town ? Did the mosquitoes run them out ? How many peo-1 pie lived here ? Are they going to build back some of the' houses?” Most of these questions are answered in a pamphlet As bury passes out to each visitor, as they walk along “Second Street" or “The Street on the Bay”, and view the excavated ruins of the town. Displays along the streets tell j of the various types of china fragments, building materials, iron tools, sewing materials, toys, and other objects recovered by the archaeologist from the ruins of! each house. The visitor is free to j talk with Asbury, or walk and I study the displays and signs inter-I preting the town. For the past two years state] archaeologist Stanley South has j (been excavating the ruins of Brunswick Town and discovering j some of the secrets that have! ben buried since the British burn-1 ed the town in 1776. Sixty foun- j dations of homes and stores have j been located, and ten of these j have been uncovered from the j rubble of two centuries for the Continued On Page 4 Name Committee To Make Study Of Fishing Row Will Consider Controversial Matter Of Shrimp And Fishing Trawlers Operat ing Inside Three - Mile Limit Members of a newly formed committee selected by commercial and sports fishermen to make rec ommendation regarding use of shrimp and fish trawlers in State coastal waters within the three mile limit and in Pamlico Sound have been named. Personnel of the committee, which comprises representatives of commercial, sports and pier fish ermen. was announced today by Eric W. Rodgers of Scotland Neck, chairman of the commercial fisheries committee of the State Eoard of Conservation and De velopment. Rodgers said he has asked the special committee to hold its first / meeting in Morehcad City at 10 a. m. on April 7 to make its rec ommendations. This committee’s recommendations first go to the Commercial Fisheries Advisory Board, then to the commercial fisheries committee of the Con servation and Development board, and then to the full Conservation and Development board for ac tion. Members of the special sports and commercial fishermen’s com mittee, the naming of which was suggested by the State Board of Conservation and Development at its meeting in Raleigh in January, and the groups they represent are: Bill Robinson, Kure Beach, and Lonnie D. Small, Holden’s Beach, pier fishing operators: Kenneth M. Sprunt, Wilmington, and Turner Battle, Rocky Mount, the North Carolina Wildlife Federation: Gar land F. Fulcher, Oriental, and' Charles Davis, Beaufort, the North Carolina Fishermen’s Association; and Clarence Rose, Vandemere, andJjiVamss Howard, Beach, representing commercial J fishermen who are not ‘ members of the N. C. Fishermen’s Associa tion. The special committee of com mercial and sports fishermen is Continued On Page 4 Bill Proposes Salary Raises Legislation Introduced By Representative S. Bunn Frink Monday Night Will Raise Pay Of Employees Rep. S. Bunn Frink Monday night introduced legislation set ting salaries of elected appointed officials in Brunswick county, tak ing the power from the Board of County Commissioners and plac ing it in the legislature. The bill would raise the salar ies of the Register of Deeds, Clerk of the Superior Court, and the Sheriff from $3,900 per year to $4,500. The County Coroner would re- 1 vive an increase of from $10 per day to $15 per day, plus seven-/ cents per mile travel expense. The salary of the County R^ corder’s Court Judge would / main at $2,220 per year. In addition, the Sheriff \vr be paid $1,200 per year as tf expense for travel within county and seven cents pc/ for travel outside the coin/ . Following is the (or Southport week. These proxiinattsly furnished The through the Cape Fear 3:1!) A. 3:39 P. 4:12 A. 4:49 P. 5:01 A. 5:35 P. 5:46 6:18 P.
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