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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. 52 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Head State Port Authority Cites Local Potential D. Leon Williams Expresses Surprise That Develop ment Has Passed South port Harbor By The “news” is finally getting around that Southport and Bruns wick county have a vast volume of crystal clear water gushing oceanward ready to be converted to houndless useful purposes. The estimated 42 million gallons a day flowing beneath Brunswick county soil has its origin up in the mountains, geologists say. It offers unlimited capacity for in dustries which require great vol umes of fresh water in manufac turing and processing products for the market. Although the presence of the natural resource has been well kirown locally for generations, state officials said the phenomena carre to light the other day in connection with the plans to build the salt water conversion plant at Wrightsville Beach. This is rather unique, it was said, in that at two points just 25 miles apart, fresh water is being made at one and volumes are at the other just for the tak ing. Why Southport has failed to at tract industry, is a mystery dis cussed by the State Ports Auth ority at a meeting here Tuesday. Southport’s advantages for in dustrial and port development were described by SPA Director D. Leon Williams. He reported on the general subject of “Southport Projects,” including possible ex penditure of funds which the au thority has available for future development at Southport. Williams said the little town has an “almost unheard of" 40 foot harbor, an excellent eleva tion for a coastal location and is within a few miles of the open ocean with a good channel. “Southport is a natural for a big petroleum refinery,” Williams swid .-ur, has every advantage and feature needed for such an instal lation. It has unlimited fresh wa ter. elevation, channel and prox imity to the ocean.” He said the channel at South port makes the Brunswick county town ideal for super-tankers. Brief Bite Of lnewsj EQUIPMENT COMING The emergency 200-bed hos pital will be delivered at Shal lotte High School at 10:00 a. m. It will be stored in a building on the Shallotte School campus. HAKE SALE SATURDAY Members of the WSCS of Trin ity Methodist Church will sponsor a bake sale Saturday morning starting at 9:30 o’clock between the post office and Leggett’s. AT CHAPEL HILL Mrs. Mary Minta Bourgoise, the former Miss Mary Minta Mintz, is attending summer school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on a National Science Foundation Scholarship. BAZAAR SATURDAY the Ladies Altar Society of Sacred Heart Catholic Church will hold a bazaar in the old Town Shop building Saturday and Mon day, from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. A rummage sale will be held in this connection. BEACH FISHING The first run of mullets taken by a beach fishery this season was caught Monday when they landed 400 pounds at Ocean Isle. They brought 20-cents per pound. The scarcity of fish helped to create this good price. EI ROPE AN THIP Miss Mary Lee Norment, daugh ter of Mrs. G. L. Norment of Southport, is on a 3-weeks tour of Europe with a group of Phi Mu members from Charlotte. They will visit England, Holland, Ger many, Switzerland, Italy and France. SPECIAL STUDY Dr. Earl I. Brown, chairman of the Civil Engineering DepaHment at Duke University College of En gineering. is attending a three weeks resident conference on a new computer at Rutgers Univer sity. This is sponsored by the Na tional Science Foundation. Dr. Brown is a nephew of Col. Earl Brown of Southport. Highway Safety Slogan CAUTION—Pretty Nancy Faye Lewis, right, is shown here pointing to the slogan which is the watch-word of the State Highway Patrol during- the coming holiday weekend—Celebrate Safely. Miss Lewis is the daughter of Mrs. Margaret Lewis of Leland. Celebrate Safely Is Patrol Slogan State Highway Patrol Is1 Calling For Cooperation Of Motorists In Observing Safe Holiday Brunswick County, with its beaches and resorts will be a mecca for vacationists this Fourth of July Holiday. Roads and high ways will be crowded with cars. In an effort to reduce accidents, death and injury, the Highway | Patrol in District VI, Troop B, has adopted a special campaign using all of the facilities available in New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender Counties. Sgt. A. H. Clark, officer-in charge, reported that extra pa trolmen, speed clocks, radar and checking stations will be a part | of the program this week-end. “We'will do everything possible to insure safety for all motorists in SENCland. However, we must have the cooperation of the driv ers if our plan is to be a success,” he said. "It is possible, anu we certainly hope probable, that we can have an accident free holiday. It won't i be easy and it will take the par ticipation of each person who op I erates a motor vehicle,” Clark de clared. Much has been said and written about safety on the highways but experts point out that the obser vance of just a few simple rules often means the difference be tween life and death. Most drivers, contrary to pop ular opinion, abide by the regula tions. Its the road-hog, the speed maniac, the Careless Charlies and Dumb Doras who cause most of the trouble. They are the ones who must be curbed, the other good citizens are eager to lend their support to the safety effort. “When we ask you to “Cele brate Safely” during the holidays, its not only for your protection, but the general welfare of every body concerned. Even one moment of carelessness on a crowded high way can mean disaster,” Sgt. Clark said. If all drivers will remember to (Continued on Page 4) Bridge Increases Beach Visitors Mannon C. Gore Reports Record Number Of Visi tors At Sunset Beach Thus Far This Summer For the first time since its first j development in 1958, Sunset I Beach can now be reached by a ) completely hard-surfaced road and j motorists are reported taking ad | vantage of the new accessibility , in record number. Last month the state paved I ! two and one-half miles of beach I frontage. A year earlier the state had paved the roadway leading ■ in to the beach from highway 904, | the Grissettown-Seaside road, and , a new drawbridge of pontoon type now arches the inland water ] way. Besides an excellent strand, the resort boasts a pair of fresh i water lakes, called Twin Lakes, l Continued On Page 5 Scholarship TOMMY SANDERS Southport Boy Gets Scholarship Tommy Sanders Receives Four-Year Scholarship To State College From Pulp And Paper Foundation Tommy Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Sanders of Southport, has been notified that he has been awarded a scholarship from the Scholarship Committee of the Pulp and Paper Foundation, Inc. . The scholarship will pay $500 for the 1961-62 academic year, with the provision that if the re cipient maintains a 2.5 average (half-way between B and CO it will be renewed and will be awarded for each of the four years of his college program. The letter to the young South port boy said that the award was made on the basis of “your high school record and satisfactory placement scores.” Sanders, who graduated this spring at Kannapolis High School, plans to enter N. C. State College this fall and will major in chem ical engineering. Methodists At Annual Session Brunswick Represented At Annual Conference Sess ion In Durham This Week All Methodist ministers of Brunswick county except one are in Durham- this week attending the annual meeting of the North Carolina Conference. The one truant is the Rev. Arthur H. Phillips, Jr., of Shal lotte, who reported today the ar rival Sunday of Timothy Andrew Phillips. On hand in Durham are the Rev. L. D. Hayman, pastor of Ocean View Methodist Church; the Rev. L. A. Bridges of Trinity Continued On Page 5 Brunswick Man Attends Meeting Of Credit Body Edwin Clemmons Of Supply Is Director For Wilming ton Production Credit As sociation “Farmers will need and use more credit in the years ahead”, according to Edwin S. Clemmons of Supply, director of the Wil mington Production Credit Asso ciation, who has just returned from Durham where he attended the annual conference for direc tors of Production Credit Asso ciations on June 13 and 14. Reports at the conference indi cated that farmers are going to continue to develop larger, more specialized operations with ip creased capital investments and operating costs to adjust their farm business to changing tech nology and economic conditions with a view of maintaining a rea sonable standard of living for their families. Clemmons said, “The loan vol ume of PCA’s in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Flor ida reached an all time high in 1960 which’ totalled nearly $202 million, an increase of about 9 percent over 1959.” Officials of the Federal Inter mediate Credit Bank of Columbia reported that service to agricul ture through the Credit Bank PCA system in the four states had almost doubled in the past five years and it is possible that it could double again in the next five years. “The Wilmington association served 605 farmers with loans totaling $1,785,000 in 1960 in Brunswick, Pender, and New Han over Counties,” Clemmons added. Directors of the Wilmington as sociation from Brunswick County are John B. Ward, president, Longwood, and Edwin S. Clem mons, Supply. The Wilmington association maintains a part-time office, open each Tuesday, in. ShaUotte .fOiBkthe convenience of Brunswick County farmers. Farmers Plant Excess Acreage ASC Office Manager Issues Warning Regarding Pen alties On Tobacco For Non-Compliance One out of every three farmers in Brunswick County has planted in excess of allotment said R. L. Price, ASC manager, this week. Price said that excess planting over tobacco allotment accounts for 29-percent of this unenviable total; and that overplanting cot ton, peanuts and feed grains, raise it to a round 33 and one third percent. In this connection, Price warn ed that a penalty of 45-cents per pound on tobacco planted in ex cess of allotment, “should give farmers grave food for thought.” The ASC manager stated that Continued On Page 5 Heroic Action— Saved From Drowning Lonnie Marlowe, 51-year-old Shallotte fisherman, plunged into the waters of the Shallotte River Saturday afternoon to pull two women to safety after the auto mobile in which they were riding had been knocked off the street near the bride and had submerged in the murky waters. The women were Mrs. Helen Regan Miller and Mrs. Betty Mill er, the former a non-swimmer, and eye-witnesses to the accident say that had it not been for the quick thinking and quick reaction on the part of Marlowe, a tragedy might have resulted. Shallotte Police Chief M. L. Gal loway, who investigated the freak accident, said that a 1957 Ford, headed south on U. S. 17, operated by Mrs. Helen Miller, 17, of Shal lotte, while proceeding down Main street in Shallotte and approach ing the vicinity of the bridge, was in process of being turned off the highway, to the right and into the driveway leading to the park ing lot of the R. E. Bellamy Hard ware Co., when it was struck in the rear by a tractor and trailer driven by Hal Singleton, 27-year old white man from Conway, S. C. Galloway said that the impact drove the lighter vehicle past the driveway and some 76 feet to the 10-foot embankment of the Shal lotte River, where the car top pled into the river. Riding as passenger in the Ford, was Mrs. Betty Miller, also of Shallotte and the mother-in-law of Mrs. Helen Miller, a recent bride. The victims were taken to the Continued On Page 4 ABC Vote Must Be Held Again Legality Of Vote Taken For Ocean Isle Questioned And Results Is Declared Void Ma or Odell Williamson of Ocean Isle Beach said this week that he had been advised that, there might be some question re garding the legality of the elec tion-by-mail which recently was held on the question of establish ing an ABC .Store at this beach community and that as a result this vote would be disregarded and that another one will be taken. July 5 has been tentatively set as the date for the second round of this ABC Store election. The basis for questioning the j legality of the first vote is that I all special elections in North Car olina must be held at least 60 days before or at least 60-days after a regular election. The bal lot-by-mail for election of the council for Ocean Isle was done on May 2. The date for the first ABC election was June 3. Williamson said this week that the new town council will be or ganized Saturday night of this Continued On Page 4 1936 was an early crop year in Brunswick, and during' the last week in June several farmers had put in tobacco. This was in our edition for July 1. June also had been a warm month, and one headline said: “Month of June Passes On Leaving Citizens Sweltering From Heat.” Southport music lovers still were sending off prediction cards in the Hit Parade contests, and there had been 10 more local winners that week. There was a front page prediction that Brunswick would go for Clyde R. Hoey in the second primary Saturday: Will Rogers was starring in “The Connecticut Yan kee,” which was playing at the movies; and a parole had been granted Jesse C. Walker, convicted killer of a Brunswick county sheriff. In our July 2 issue for 1941 there was an announcement of the opening date for the Border Belt Tobacco Market, with August 5th having been set for the opening. Orton Plantation owner J Lawrence Sprunt said that he was pleased with progress that had been made in expanding the plantation gardens during the year. June that year had not been excessively hot; reports from Fry ing Pan lightship were that shark and barracuda were out there in great numbers; and Southport boys were collecting scrap aluminum for sale. There was a front page bulletin in our edition for June 26, 1946: Miss Annie May Woodside, superintendent of schools, had announced that David Watson had been elected principal of Southport High School for the coming year. Development along the coast of Brunswick was the subject of a front page feature. A State convention, that for court reporters, was scheduled to be held at Southport during the coming week; Brunswick boat (Continued on Page 1) LONNIE MARLOWE Proposed Tax Rate For County $1.63 -a Shallotte Girl Wins Trip Abroad An eight-year-old Shallotte girl has won a trip to the French Rivera by virtue of being present at the Lion’s Intel-national convention held at Atlantic City, New Jersey last week. The lucky girl is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Bellamy of Shallotte and ac companied her parents to the Jersey watering place for the four-day convention, at the close of which her number was drawn from an attend ance basket stuffed with the names of 6,500 registered delegates from every nook and corner of the U. S. The chance-drawing en titled Pamela to an all-ex pense trip to Nice, France, in 1962, during the occasion of the next international conven tion of the Lion’s Internation al, which will be held on the banks' of the blue Mediter ranean in La Belle, France. The door prize provides for the expenses of two persons, but the Bellamy family ex pect to accompany their small delegate in strength—all four of them—it is reported. Fourth Traffic Death Is Added Corporal O, H. Lynch Finds That Death Of George Hankins, Jr., Must Be Counted Corporal O. H. Lynch was forc ed to reluctantly add one to the list of highway fatalities thus far during 1961 in Brunswick county when Dr. L. G. Brown told him that it was his opinion that had George Hankins, Jr., of Southport not been involved in an auto mobile accident three days prior to his death at Dosher Memorial Hospital he might still be living. The circumstances were peculiar in that Hankins died while in the operating room at Dosher Memo rial Hospital during an operation m his leg, which had been hurt Continued on Page 5 Commissioners Give Tenta tive Approval To Budget Calling For Expenditure Of Over One Million Dol lars Members of the board of county commissioners approved a tenta tive budget Monday which calls for the expenditure of slightly over one million dollars during the next fiscal year and for the esta blishment of a tax rate of $1.63. Another action taken Monday was a decision not to have Bruns wick county participate in the surplus food distribution program. Several factors contribute to the necessity for a substantial raise in the tax rate. Among them are the bill passed during the past session of the legislature to raise salaries of elective officers by about 12-percent, plus a raise in pay for purors, members of the board of county commissioners, members of the board of educa tion, the deputy sheriffs, including additional travel allowance. In ad dition, the board voted Monday in (Continued on Page 4) Art Festival Is Big Attraction Visitors From Several North Carolina Cities Indicate Intention To Exhibit Here When pretty Cheryl Rogers, Hiss Southport for 1961, cuts a ribbon stretched across the main entrance to Franklin Park Satur day afternoon the first local Arts Festival will be inaugurated. The ribbon-cutting will open the outdoor aisles along which the work of at least 50 artists will be exhibited to public view. Number ed among these will be Jack Berkman, native of D. C. and now a resident of Wrightsville Beach, Mrs. Marjorie Kelley, of Myrtle Beach, S. C., and other luminaries in Southern art circles. Berkman's forte is oils, while Mrs. Kelley is a well known ceramics master. Home talent will not be over looked. Stanley South, archeolo gist at Brunswick Town, will be on hand with photography and oils exhibits, and Mrs. Gilliam Hornstein's oils and drawings will be on exhibition. Starting time for the four-day show is one p. m. The work will be hung both indoors and out. The Continued On Page 4 Big Attendance This Week For Training Union | Summer Program At North Carolina Baptist Assem bly In Full Swing This Week At Fort Caswell Despite the chilly, wet weather the N. C. Baptist Assembly near Southport continues to act as a magnet for both old and young from near and far. This is Train ing Union week and the seaside retreat has attracted between 600 and 700 registered guests with the week only half over. Plans are , being made for an estimated 1,000 guests expected to participate in mission week, beginning next Monday. On Monday evening of this week the assembly’s famed am-' phitheatre was used for vesper, services for the first time this summer. Soft, indirect lighting features the outdoor worship cen ter. The swish of river waters in trudes gently, and the muted crash of the Atlantic resounds from the other side of the point.. Vesper services have proven high- - ly popular among visitors and' guests alike, and of all ages. Several groups of associational missionaries, eighty in number," and representing the association throughout the state, will be on. hand for mission week. Dr. Lowell ■ Spivey of the Baptist State Con-" vention will head the group. Dr. • Spivey is chief of the Division of Baptist Missions. His headquarters, are located in Raleigh. Mission week is sponsored by. i the Brotherhood and the W. M. U. and their auxiliaries, the girls auxiliary, young women’s auxili ! ary and the Royal Ambassadors. Heading the Brotherhood and tha i Women’s activities respectively will be the Rev. Clyde L. Davis and Miss Miriam Robinson. Featured speakers during the week will be Miss Ann Grove, attached to the Home Mission board in Atlanta, Ga., and Miss Amelia Rappold of New Orleans, La. Miss Rappold is a home mis sionary. Dr. John Lewis, pastor 'of the First Baptist Church of Raleigh, will be minister of the week. An added attraction will be Hal Schumaker, versatile and popular minister of music for Pritchard Memorial Baptist Church of Char lotte. Mr. Schumaker will lead the singing and will bring Mrs. D. H. Caldwell, his organist, with him for mission week. Fred Smith, manager of the Assembly, stated Tuesday that mission week program is expected to draw one of the largest at tendances of the summer pro* gram.. Lennon Inquires About Fuel Oil Congressman Seeks Infor mation Regarding Situa tion As It Affects Tobac co Growers There is some danger that the maritime strike will result in a shortage of fuel oil with which Brunswick County farmers plan to cure their green tobacco, it was learned this week. R. L. Price, manager of the Brunswick County ASC office, said Monday that he was in re ceipt of a wire from Congressman Continued On Page 2 Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the week. These hours are approximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, June 29, 8:11 A. M. 2:31 A. M. 8:48 P. M. 2:37 P. M. Friday, June 30, 9:06 A. M. 3:22 A. M. 9:41 P. M. 3:30 p. M. Saturday, July 1, 10:02 A. M. 4:13 A. M. 10:35 P. M. 4:24 P. M. Sunday, July 2, 11:01 A. M. 5:03 A. M. 11:30 P. M. 5:18 p. M. Monday, July 3, 5:57 A. M. 6:17 P. M. Tuesday, July 4, 0:27 A. M. 6:52 A. M. 0:59 P. M. 7:19 P. M. Wednesday, July 5, 1:23 A. M. 7:48 A. M. 1:59 P. M. 8:22 P. M.
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