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Most of the News s§ All The Time Volume No. 22 No. 4 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Estimate ^ ^ c°n^'^v\in° ser Bru <*» >eu>19Tst' CoVv from ■pot*et ?ay.r, the V^-jbd * per svtfV a,a V9ye«r 12-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVER V^; *r&iM ds Command Post Exercise WORK—The following officers, Captain James D. Williams, motor transport officer; Captain Claude A. Boutwell, yard master; and Captain Ernest N. Bishop, field transport officer, of the U. S. Army Terminal Unit (7468), Meridian, Miss issippi, are shown conducting a Command Post Exercise at Sunny Point Army I erminal, where the unit is taking its annual active duty training. The officers are determining the necessary number of days and number of vessels required to move an infantry division. Plans Laid For 4-H Expansion For Brunswick Plans Laid For Raising Funds To Underwrite This Activity Under New Or-1 ganization Plan The nucleus of a Brunswick County 4-H Club development fund oi ganization was laid on Fri day night at a meeting held in the Brunswick Agricultural build ing at Supply. During tne meeting, Wilton Harrelson of Shallotte was elect ed chairman of a steering com mittee for the organization, and Aubrey C. Johnson was appointed county treasurer for the Fund. Johnson is from Shallotte also. A. S. Knowles, county farm agent, said that he was “highly pleased” with the interest shown Jn the initial move to establish “more and better 4-H clubs in Brunswick County.” Knowles said that the new pro gram is part of a nationwide drive, through state and county levels, “to establish 4-H Clubs and generate interest in this worthwhile project.” Members of the new steering Continued On Page 2 Brief BiU Of lnewsj BACK AT WORK Roland Clark is back at work at the Southport Barbeshop after being ill for several weeks. SMORGASBORD SUPPER The ladies of Ocean View Methodist Church will serve a smorgasbord supper in the recrea tion rooms of the church Friday afternoon of this week, beginning at 5:30 o’clock. CAP BENEFIT The Brunswick County Squad ron of the N. c. Civil Air Patrol will serve a benefit chicken sup per Saturday at the Shallotte School Cafeteria from 4 to 9 o’clock. BACK AT SUNNY POINT Lt. Col. Johnnie D. Duffie is back on duty as Commanding Of ficer at Sunny Point Army Ter minal after attending a refresher course for six weeks at North western University. SHAULOTTE PROGRESSES Mayor Roney Cheers reported that Shallotte has jumped over $.100,000 in tax valuation during the past year. Cheers said that the town was evaluated at slight ly more than one million dollars on the Brunswick County tax books during the past fiscal year, and that the new listings for 1961-62 place its tax-evaluation at $1,500,000. Officer Training At Sunny Point Two U. S. Army Terminal ^ Units Engaged In Coun terpart Training Practices At Sunny Point Again this year two Army Re serve units from the deep South are at the Sunny Point Army terminal for two weeks of active duty training. From Mobile, Ala. is the Army Transportation Ammunition ter minal unit 7471 commanded by Col. John S. Marshall, Jr. From Meridian, Miss, is the counterpart unit 7468 commanded by Col. Oliver W. Brackman. Both of the two groups are working side by side regular Army personnel at Sunny Point getting posted on the latest tech niques in receiving and shipping vital ammunition supplies. The following is a roster of the officers and men of Unit 7471: Colonel Marshall, Lt. Colonel Wal ton T. Reeves, Lt. Colonel Virgil V. Rhodes, Jr., Lt. Colonel Myriam M. Smith, Major William L. Green, Major Winston F. Groom, i Captain Houston O. Baker, Cap tain Hugh B. Barker, Jr., Captain Percy Brewington, Jr., Captain Harold R. Fairbairn, Captain Earl C. Hamil, Captain John J. Leacy, 1st Lt. Michael D. Grogan, 1st Lt. Hugh D. Kemp, 1st Lt. Kenneth C. Steel, II, 1st Lt. Harold J. Spikes, PFC (E-3) William R. Re gan, SP4 (E-41 James E. Soles, Major Leland H. Burgess, 1st Lt. Robert B. Barnett, and CWO W-2 Curtis R. Skipper. unit nas officers and two enlisted men. Colonel Brackr man, Lt. Colonel Warren E.. Rag land, Deputy Post Commander; Lt. Colonel Charles E. Callaiay, J Director of Operations; Lt. Colon el Theo G. Watson, Director of Administration; Major Ralph S. Treadwell, Director of Services; Captain Howard G. Secregt, Gen eral Supply Officer; Captain George L. Follett, Safety Officer; Major John E. Crowe, Finance Officer; Captain Paul D. Linne vold. Adjutant General; First Lt. Joseph E. Hinson, Civilian Personnel Officer; Cap tain Asa D. Shirley, Jr., Chief TOD; Captain Calvin E. Scar brough, Chief CT Division; Major James L. Anderson, Chief Pro curement; Captain James D. Wil liams, Motor Trans Off; Captain Ernest N. Bishop, Fid Trans Off; Captain Claude E. Boutwell, Yard master; Captain Joseph A. O’Con nell, Jr., Post Signal Off; First Lt. Harold E. Wright, Engineer Sup i ply Off; 2nd Lt. Irvin Martin, ! Port Opr Off; 1st Lt. Phillip E. [Emerson, Port Opr Off; CWO | Henry C. Nance, Attached; M|Sgt (E-7) Cecil C. Germany, Adminis | tration; SP|4 John D. Ziller, Ch : Harbor Craft Opr. The Sunny Point Army Termin al, located on the Cape Fear I River in Southeastern North Car iolina, between Southport and Wil i Continued On Page 4 Dedication Of Leland Office The new home of the Post Office at Leland will be dedi cated Saturday, July 29, with ceremonies beginning at 2 o'clock, Mrs. Margaret L. Rourk advises. Congressman Alton A. Len non will be present and is ex pected to contribute remarks appropriate to the occasion. In addition to Rep. Lennon, Frank Graham, Field Service officer for the Post Office Department, will be present to participate in the program. The dedication will be fol lowed by "open house” and refreshments will be served. Market Opening Next Thursday Auction Sales Of Flue Cured Tobacco Will Be gin For Farmers Of This Area On That Date All is in readiness for White ville to begin its 51st consecutive year of selling tobacco for grow ers of Southeastern N. C., when the Border Belt auction season opens on Thursday, Aug. 3. According to George Gold, Whiteville sales supervisor, pros pects are bright for a good sales year on the local market. In fact, farmers, warehousemen, buyers and merchants feel another ban ner season is just ahead. Good Season Expected Chances are good that the local mart may even surpass its 1960 record of paying out some $22, 943,073 for the “golden weed”, though the total poundage of 37,072,124 sold last year may stand an outside chance of drop ping due to irregular growing conditions which have hit crops this year. Whiteville’s 1960 aver age price was $61.89. Government price support, which will average 55.5 cents per pound, and a raise in government loan rates some 2.4 cents per pound from last year should cause the per-pound money to be higher on the Whiteville market. Poundage May Rise The expected 10 percent drop in poundage caused by cold weather in the start of the growing sea son and rain-damage later may be helped—its possible it could even be overcome and the total pound age improved upon by the close of the season. This could happen from two angles; less leaf going to the Georgia market, and be cause the Eastern belt—from Continued On Page 2 Greensboro Men Will Develop Beach Section Acquire Lower End Of Long Beach And Adjacent Is land Property For Devel opment Purposes Greensboro interests have pur chased the lower end of Long Beach and have taken the first .steps in developing this property along lines which promise to ele vate the general standard for beach construction. The property extends from the point where the highway became a loop road and runs to Lock woods Folly Inlet. Also included is nearby Goat Island, a 200-acre tract which lies between the beach and the Intra coastal Waterway. This is entirely undeveloped, and there are no im mediate plans involving use of this property. It has been re christened Lynn Island, and an invitation has been extended to Boy Scout troops to make use of this island for camping and other outings. The entire property is known as King’s Lynn, and the origin dates back to a visit of one of the owners to England during World War II. It is reported that this fellow was much taken with a picturesque little town on the North Sea, which bore the name of King’s Lynn. Coming to Bruns wick in 1953, he acquired a sum mer home down near the Lock wood Folly River, where the dunes are higher and the popula tion lower than at any spot along popular Long Beach. This came atfer an exhausting survey of beachlands from Myrtle Beach to Dare County. So loudly did he praise his find, that it was no time at all before other citizens and friends from such up-state cities as Greensboro, Continued On Page 2 Charter Boats Bringing In Fish Outstanding Catches Repor ted By Parties Fishing Out Of Southport During Weekend Fishing continued to be good during the past week at South port and a former resident, John Stiller, now of Silver Springs, Md., brought family and friends down in time to snare one of the past weekend’s largest catches. On Saturday, aboard the Carol Lynn, Capt. Ray Stubbs, Mate Sonny Potter, Stiller’s party, composed of Capt. Dan Kennedy, 7th precinct, Washington, D. C. Police Department, Paul Sager of Philadelphia, Pa., J. C. Stiller of Silver Springs, Md., and Bobby Stiller, age 6, also of Silver Springs, caught 375 Spanish mackerel and bluefish. Little Bob by alone accounted for more than 100 of the catch. On the same day, Zeb Stiller and party of Washington, D. C., chartered Capt. Basil Watts’ Idle On II, and captured 35 Spanish mackerel, 11 king mackerel, 5 bonito, one amber jack and 2 bara Continued On Page 6 Stocking Lakes PLANTING—Two employees of an upstate fish hatchery are shown here re leasing young bass and bream in one of the many big lakes at the Boiling Spring Lakes development near Southport. Although there already is a good population of game fish, the management purchased 150,000 young bass, 20,000 bream and an additional 200,000 minnows for them to feed upon and released them in the various lakes on the property. Development Of Ports May Have Local Importance Chairman John M. Reeves Of State Ports Authority And Director D. Leon Williams Give Encour agement Officials of the State Ports Au thority met briefly Saturday mor ning with North Carolina news paper publishers at the Press As sociation meeting in Charlotte and heard port expansion despribed as a must in the development pro gram for North Carolina. Present for the meeting was John M. Reeves, chairman of the State Ports Authority, D. Leon Williams, Executive Director for the State Ports Authority, and E. J. Bofferding, engineer repre senting the consulting firm which has completed a survey of port needs and prospects in North Carolina. He said an exhaustive study shows about $8 million should be spent at Wilmington and $5*4 mil lion at Morehead City. He urged “all haste” in the port program and predicted a 118 per cent in crease in tonnage handled if the money is spent. “In fact, if you fail to do so, you are directly aiding the devel opment of your neighboring states at a loss to yourselves,” said Bofferding. Prior to his appearance before the business meeting of the Press Association. Bofferding said that the 40-foot basin in the Southport harbor presents the most intri Continued On Page 2 TIME and TIDE r '. July 29, 1936—Championship play was in progress for the woman’s doubles in the Southport Tennis Tournament. Favored were Hannah Reece and Eleanor Howey (Eleanor McAUley.) Their most serious competition promised to come from Marion Watson and Elizabeth Watson (Elizabeth Griffin) a sister tan dem. Prospects for the future Brunswick population were not good, based upon the headline covering vital statistics for the six months period just ended: “Fewer Births And More Deaths In Brunswick This Year.” The County Commissioners had just adop ted a tentative budget calling for a tax rate of $1.50 for the coming year, and the tax valuation was $6,300,000. July 30, 1941—There was bad news in The Pilot for prospec tive young bridegrooms who had just received their greetings from Uncle Sam; “Getting Married At Last Minute Won’t Help Boys,” it sair. A highway improvement project was in progress on route No. 74-76, bringing the roadway to a width of 22 feet. Three little girls—Pat and Stuart Arrington an Mary Minta Mintz—had found a turtle nest at Long Beach; the management of the Amuzu was offering a free movie for kids cooperating in the aluminum scrap drive; and the Vay Keys orchestra was com ing to Long Beath for an engagement. July 24, 1946:—The Furpless family had announced the gift of a Hammond organ to Trinity Methodist Church as a memorial for the late Lillie Drew Furpless. Even in the heat of summer there was news of school, with the announcement that September 2 would be the datejof opening that .year. Also a note of fall was contained in the article telling that ^Continued on Page 4) Commissioners Set Tax Session Here Ocean Isle To Get ABC Store Property owners at Ocean Isle Beach have voted for a second time in favor of the establishment of an ABC Store within the boundaries of this incorporated town. The results were 97 for, 7 against. R. D. White, Jr., has been named chairman of the board and will serve for 3 years; Billy Russ is a member under 2-year appointment; and R. F. Rogers has been named for 1-year. A new building is now un der construction, and it an ticipated that the new store may be in operation sometime next week. No Decision On Mayor Vacancy Town Council In Session Saturday Disposes Of Other Matters Of Impor tance, Including Tax Rate Some forty taxpayers were at the new Long Beach city hall during a lively meeting of the town council Saturday afternoon, but due to the absence of one of! the members, no vote was held for the office of mayor. Among resolutions made and passed was that the budget, as tentatively ap proved at the July 1 meeting, be formally adopted and the tax-rate set at 75-cents per $100 valuation, as in the previous year. Missing from his chair, was Commissioner W. L. Simmons of Greensboro, who was reported to be ill with the mumps. The meeting got underway at 4 o’clock and was adjourned about 8. Some of the crowd present were I there in the interest of traffic control on the strand. The beach drivers won out the board re solving to allow the use of the four-wheel chariots at speeds not to exceed 20 mph; it being further stipulated that the speed limit be strictly enforced. Tempers flared a bit following the apeparance before the board of Attorney L. P. McLendon, Jr., of Greensboro, who' is also one of the developers of a brand new section of Long Beach called King’s Lynn. McLendon wanted the town to close some undevelop ed street ends, located on the : western edge of the beach. McLendon notified the board : that his company had received : permission from the State High- - way Commission to relocate a 1 thoroughfare known as the Loop 1 Road, also located at the western < end of the Beach. 11 A hassle developed as to zoning | and other restrictions whicli might i i be involved an argument in which j« (Continued on Page 4) ► Board Asked To Reconsider Plans To Raise Rate To $1.47 Before Deadline For Objection Tomorrow An unusual session of the board of commissioners for Brunswick county will be held tonight (Wed nesday) at 7:30 o’clock for the purpose of considering requests for a downward adjustment in the proposed tax rate. Deadline for making changes in the tentative budget will be reached tomorrow (Thursday). On June 26 members of the board approved a tentative budget calling for a rate of $1.63 for the next fiscal year, a raise of 32 cents above the $1.31 rate for last year. There were protests from tax payers on this proposed 25-percent increase, and on July 18 the board met and agreed to reduce the rate to $1.47. Just what course is to be follow ed at tonight's meeting has not been made clear, but the com missioners are expected to defend their position that an increase is necessary in order to raise the salaries and certain travel allow ances as provided by a bill passed during the session of the State Legislature just closed. Another part of the proposed raise has been earmarked for the school fund, with County Super intendent John G. Long contend ing that additional funds are nec essary to construct classrooms immediately at two of the schools, and to complete work on a gym torium project. Ray H. Walton, representing a group of protesting taxpayers, has indicated his belief that all of these objectives can be met with out the necessity of raising the tax rate. He has cited the increas ing property valuation as his rea son for this thinking, with this year’s property valuation at an all-time high of $31-million. Scholarships By Pulp Industry! Southport Youth Will Enter N. C. State College This Fall As A Scholarship Student The Scholarship Committee of the Pulp and Paper Foundation, Inc., has awarded 55 scholarships with an aggregate value of $32, L75 to students in the School of forestry at North Carolina State College. In announcing the awards, Prof. G. Hitchings, acting head of he college’s pulp and paper tech- j lology program, said 22 scholar- j ihips went to new freshmen who i vill enroll in the pulp and paper echnology curriculum in Septem- | >er and 33 scholarships for upper :)assmen in the curriculum were '■ ■enewed. The first award scholarships to I lew freshmen, which range in j Jinual value from $300 to $750 , ^Continued On Page 2) Anothv Traini Crowv First Of Two ions Of This Now In Progi tist Assembly This week at the sembly near Southpoi registered guests had by noon Tuesday for t\ a two-weeks program i Training Union work. \ to Manager Fred Smi marks the third-largest of weekly registrations i current summer season. On Tuesday afternoon a ment was being held in one <. main auditoriums with more a hundred small children, m bers of the Junior class, B. T. competing. In spite of the lav congregation the hall was ve, quiet and orderly as the childre, answered biblical questions and irti quiries with interest and ability. James P. Morgan of Raleigh, Training Union Secretary for the Baptist State Convention, detach ed himself from the tournament long enough to give the following facts on next week’s program. Minister for the week will be the Rev. W. P. Milne, pastor of the Orcutt Ave. Baptist Church at Newport News, Va. The Rev. Mr. Milne is a native Tar Heel who is widely known in Baptist circles throughout the South. The leader of vesper services will be Mrs. Owen Herring, of Winston-Salem, a lady who needs little introduction to Baptist any where and who is the mother of Ann Farrington Herring, Miss North Carolina of 1961. She is expected to join her mother at the assembly during the week ahead. Featured speakers will include the Rev. Olavo Feijo, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Dr. Luke Smith. The Rev. Feijo will speak on Tuesday at 11:45 a. m., on “Youth, Its Role in International Affairs.” On Thursday morning, Dr. Smith, who is attached to the foreign mission board at Rich mond, Va., will speak on the “Southern Baptist Program of World Missions.” On Wednesday morning, Dr. W. R. Gregg, secretary of the depart ment of interracial cooperation for the Baptist State Convention, will address the guests on "Human Relations.” Herman Jacobs of Nashville, Tenn., will lead one of the adult conferences during the coming week, as will Mrs. Herring, whose subject will be "Family Life.” Special Teachers Being Employed Supt. John G. Long Reports That Application Has Been Made To State De partment For Special Tea chers The Brunswick County Board of Education has made request to the North Carolina State De partment of Public Instruction for allotment of two special educa tional teachers for the school year 1961-1962. If approved, these teachers will be located at a central location in the county and will function as an integral part of the total school program, Supt. John G. Long said this week. 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 LOW Thursday, July 27, 1:07 A. M. 7:11 A. M. 1:16 P. M. 7:53 P. M. Friday, July 28, 1:59 A. M. 8:08 A. M 2:09 P. M. 8:46 P. M. Saturday, July 29, 2:48 A. M. 9:04 A. M. 3:03 P. M. 9:38 P. M. Sunday, July 30, 3:38 A. M. 9:59 A. M. 3:56 P. M. 10:40 P. M. Monday, July 31, 1:28 A. M. 10:55 A. M. 1:49 P. M. 11:23 P. M. Tuesday, Aug. 1, 5:19 A. M. 11:51 A. M. 5:45 P. M. Wednesday, August 2, 3:11 A. M. 0:03 A. M. 6:43 P. M. 12:49 P. M.
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