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Most of the News ■ All The Time i THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 22 No. 5 12-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Sign New Register SHEETS—Miss Helen Taylor, left, and Rev. Arthur Phillips, right, are shown signing the new register at the Brunswick Town project. This was furnished by the Brunswick County Historical Society. This is the first in a series of projects planned by the historical group. Since the first of the year more than 10,000 per sons have visited the historic site at Brunswick Town. Spanish Mackerel Catches During Week Fantastic Outboard Motorboat Own ers Get In On One Of The Biggest Runs Of These Fish In History Here One of the most fantastic runs of Spanish mackerel ever to show up here has afforded some out standing ' fishing during the last' few days, with small boat opera tors getting in on the fun. One of these was E. C. Blake, who had three companions Thurs day when he came in with 207 of these fish while fishing from his outboard motorboat. The big slaying came when Capt. Rob Austin went out late last Thursday with a Long Beach parly that didn't call in until after the other boat had gone, and late that afternoon came in with 700 fish. Almost lost in the rush of small fish was the sailfish caught Sat urday by W. J. Mailey of Wash ington, D. C. He was out aboard the Idle On II with Capt. Basil Watts. The John-Ellen, Capt. Walter Lewis, chartered by the T. A. Page party of Fayetteville came in with 45 bluefish and 233 Span ish mackerel on Wednesday. On Friday the same boat and crew took H. L. West and party from Virginia, out, and returned with 50 Spanish mackerel, 15 kingfish, 8 dolphin and one amberjaek. On Saturday the John-Ellen carried the Henry Swanzy party from Charlotte, to rendezvous with 74 Spanish mackerel, 35 blues, 8 kings, 2 dolphin and 2 bonito. Capt. Glenn Trunnell on the Riptide piloted a Virginia [5arty Saturday to a catch of 11 kings, 5 dolphin, 6 bonito, 3 amberjaek, 2 barracuda and 35 blues and Spanisli mackerel. On the following day the Rip tide, carrying a party from Wil mington, returned with a bag of 230 blues and Spanish mackerel. On Sunday the Eva K, Capt. Dick Skipper, took out the John Porter party from Rockingham and landed 215 Spanish mackerel and bluefish. On the same day the Davis Bros. IV, Capt. Fred Fulford, fer ried the John Cherberko party (Continued on Page 4) Brief Bit• Of lnewsj BAKE SALE A bake sale sponsored by the WSCS of Trinity Methodist Church will be held on the side walk in front of Arrington’s Sat urday morning, beginning at 9:30 o’clock. GOLDEN WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Holden will hold open house at their home Sunday afternoon, August 6, from 2:30 to 5 o’clock, the occasion being their golden wedding anni versary. Friends are invited. Library Service Attracts Readers Figures Released In Annual* Report Show A Growing Popularity Of Library Facilities Figures just compiled for the fiscal year July 1, 1960, to June 30, 1961, reveal that Brunswick County’s Library Service was used by 13,508 persons, and that 27,802 Books were' loaned. This report, prepared for the Southport Board of Aldermen and the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners, shows that 3592 residents used the bookmobile service, borrowing 11,966 vol umes; while 9916 patrons checked out 15,836 books from the South port Public Library. The bookmobile travels 7 dif ferent routes throughout the coun ty from Leiand to the South Caro lina line, and from Calabash to Waceamaw. There are 85 stops at centrally located stores, post of fices and other community gather ing places. The seven routes are covered once every three weeks. Mrs. Charlotte K. Jones, book mobile librarian, states that the bookmobile was driven over 8000 miles last year in spite of rain, snow, hail and heat. Since the inception of this county-wide serv ice in January, 1960 the book mobile has failed to make only two of its regularly scheduled runs, both times because of ill ness. Two thousand and five hundred more patrons used the Southport Public Library this year than last, and circulation of books was up by 4500. In addition, 33 moving picture films were borrowed for use of community groups, and 45 books were borrowed from other libraries to meet special needs of readers. The library system now owns 7000 volumes and has an addi tional 3000 on loan from the j North Carolina State Library, re Coutinued On Page 4 Lightning Kills Shallotte Man Hollins Gause Instantly Kil led Tuesday When Struck While Working In Tobac co Pack Building Hollins Gause, 41-year-old Shal lotte Negro, was instantly killed Tuesday afternoon when struck by a bolt of lightning while at work in a house on the D. B. Frink farm being used for storage of tobacco. According to Coroner L. B. Ben nett, Gause was nailing a piece of roofing paper across a window in the old Frink home when a bolt of lightning struck the building. He was instantly killed, but other persons in the same room, includ ing Mr. Frink and his son, John David Frink, were uninjured. The force of the bolt of light ning demolished a chimney of the large, two-story building and dam aged the window, but fire which frequently follows this kind of accident, failed to develop. Episcopal Church Is Planned At Shallotte A new church is in prospect for Shallotte with construction of the brick edifice scheduled to start early in the fall, probably some time in September. Some 12 members of the Gause Landing Episcopal Church, resid ing in and about Shallotte, will transfer to the new church which will be called St. James. The new building will be located on an acre plot, on property of Chandler Roak, situated across from the Lion’s Club Park on U. S. High way 17 in the town limits. The Rev. Nelson B. Hodgkins, rector of Grace Episcopal Church at Whiteville, will also serve St. James, a Shallotte spokesman stated this week. Plans Progress For Big Move General Manager Harold Greene Of Boiling Spring Lakes Has Moved From Charleston, S. C., To Wil mington; Office Coming Reeves Broadcasting Co., promo ters of Brunswick County’s newest large real estate development, Boiling Spring Lakes, is proceed ing with plans to bring its devel opment headquarters to Bruns wick from Charleston, S. C. Harold Greene, general man ager of the 15,000-acre develop ment located some 8 miles north west of Southport, moved his family to Wilmington this week, and construction of the admin istration building at Boiling Spring Lakes will begin immed iately, it was announced. The central office will be ma sonry construction and will be fully air conditioned. The move from Charleston will furnish em ployment for several local per sons in staffing the new head quarters, it was learned. The first group of Medallion homes are fast nearing completion within the huge development. The I homes are of brick, and are lo | cated a block from the archways framing the main entrance into I the grounds on Highway 87. | New roads are being cut through at a steady rate, with I more miles being black-topped | each week. Greene reports that I “sales of lots at Boiling Spring ' Lakes remains brisk, and the ad I vantages of building here is at j tracting prospective homeowners from an ever-spreading area of ! the country.” The lakes themselves are bee J hives of activity, what with dredg ing, fish-stocking and beautifying I measures continuing without let jup. Visitors and prospective clients may now drive for miles along I improved roads which wind j through forested areas and past ! more than 50 lakes. I “In the not-distant future,” says j Greene, “Brunswick will boast a 1 Continued On Page 4 Eight Additional Teachers Being Made Available Additional Faculty Member Being Assigned To Each Consolidated High School In Brunswick County The Brunswick county school system has been allotted 8 addi tional classroom teachers for 1961-1962 School year by the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction, according to Superintendent J. G. Long. 'These teachers have been assign ed, one to each of the eight high schools, with the exception of Bo livia, where the additional teacher will be used to decrease the size of classes in the primary grades. These additional teachers were allotted to this county as a part of the North Carolina program of increased emphasis upon quality education, and will be used to help provide a more balanced edu cational program in each school. The additional teachers will not be used to free a base allotted teacher or to lighten their load of work, but will be used to provide additional opportunity of learning for the students. This will give Brunswick county a total North Carolina state teacher allotment of 192 teachers in addition to the vocational and special teachers after the first two weeks of school. If the average daily attendance per teacher allotted in the base allotment has as many as 32 students per teach er, an additional teacher or teachers may be allotted, provided that no additional teacher may be allotted for fewer pupils than are required for the original al lotment. Gets Settlement In Highway Case Judge J. B. Craven, Jr„ Qf Morganton Presided Over Final Session Of Superior Court Here Last Week Judge J. B. Craven, Jr. presid ed over a two-weeks term of Superior Court devoted to the trial of civil cases and the follow ing dispositions were made: In the case of Sam Joe Frink versus the State Highway Com mission, heard by Judge Craven without benefit of jury, the court found in favor of the plaintiff, awarding Frink damages of $13, 000 plus interest, a total of ap proximately $14,000. The case evolved about property located in Shallotte township, situated on U. S. Highway 17, and owned by Frink, which had been condemned and claimed by the State Highway Commission. A jury awarded H. A. Brown damages of $12,500 for physical injuries arising from an accident taking place on a Brunswick County road, when p. car driven by Lee Andrew Clark struck Brown as he pedaled a bicycle. Brown’s injuries were of a se rious nature, and he contended that carelessness on the part of the defendant resulted in large medical bills and the curtailment of his (Brown’s) earning power. Several motions were heard by Judge Craven and several divorces Continued On Fage 4 Welcomes Vice-President ^ A - | -^J.. , ryv^-SY-' •• " •• ^ '<\N^X ■> . . GREETING—Capt. C. M. Adams is shown here as he greets Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson on a recent visit to Hawaii where Capt. Adams is stationed with the U. S. Army. He was in command of the multi-service color guard which was on hand to welcome the vice-president and later joined the distinguished visitor in inspecting the troops. Capt. Adams is the husband of Miss Marion Frink, whose parents live in Southport. Friendly Wager Helps Interest In Crab Derby Dan’l Walker Offers To Bet Hugh Morton One Com mission As Admiral In Crab Contest In a pincer movement, Dan’ L. “Hard Crab” Walker, Long Beach's town manager, this week challenged the speed of New Han over County crabs by wagering Hugh Morton, chairman of the N. C. Battleship Commission, an admiralty in the Tar Heel navy that the Brunswick County entry in the crab derby would “run the claws off anything New Hanover entered.” The derby mentioned is for blue crabs only and will be held at Morehead City August 25 and 26, with the blessings of the hard crab industry in North Carolina in general and the Chamber of Commerce for the greater More head City area in particular. Hugh Morton of Wilmington and Linville, in a prepared state ment accepted the wager in the following words: “Brunswick and New Hanover Counties are both far over their quotas of fund-raising to bring the U. S. S. North Carolina back home. And whereas this friendly Continued On Page 4 « TIME and TIDE Those who have suffered from the heat for the past week can take comfort from the fact that twenty-five years ago this week the temperature climbed to the 99-degree mark here in South port. That was in the year 1936, and the fact was recorded in our edition for August 5. One change in the times, however, is that for the correspond ing week of twenty-five years ago good catches of shrimp were reported. A Farm Bureau had been 01 ganized in Brunswick; the editor had warned tobacco farmers against celebrating their first sales by the use of intoxicating beverage in the excess; and Elea nor Howey and Hannah Reese had come through to win the woman’s doubles championship for the Southport Tennis Club. The big news on the front page of The Pilot for August 6, 1941, was that tobacco had sold for a 20-cent average on the opening of the Georgia market. Sharing this top-headline billing was news that Southport Attorney R. I. Mintz had been ordered to report for active duty with the U.S. Army. There was other evidence of the wartime conditions prevailing that year, with a draft quota of nine men being called up for duty; Silk imports from Japan had been limited, and cotton prices had been boosted; and restrictions had been placed on the retail sales of gasoline. The time was August 7, 1946, and paving had begun on the i highway from U.S. No. 17 to Village Point; and there was word | that new business places were springing up at this picturessue i (Continued on Page 4) Special Audit Is Ordered By Board Application For New Reservation The Associated Press, inter national news agency, took a fancy to a front page story in The Pilot last week telling of the efforts of an unruly pri soner to “air condition his cell” by beating out the bars. The story went the rounds, and this week Deputy Sheriff H. G. Ratcliffe received a let ter from one of his former customers who said, “I've been reading where you’ve got the jail air conditioned now. Maybe X should come back up to see you." Marketing Cards Are Mailed Out ASCS Office Manager R. L. Price Says That Tobacco Sales Cards Should Be In Hands Of Growers This Week Brunswick County tobacco far mers are receiving their market ing cards the first of which were mailed out Friday and within a few days all local tobacco pro ducers will have a card. R. L. Price, manager of the Brunswick County ASCS office, offered the following advice and suggestions to those farmers re ceiving the cards: “Keep your card in your pos session at all times. See that only (Continued on Page 4) Teacher Choice Almost Complete Principal W. N, Williams Announces That Last Of Four Vacancies In Ele mentary School Filled The last of four vacancies in the elementary department of Southport High School was filled last week, giving the schol a com plete staff of elementary teach ers. New teachers and their grades are: Mrs. Jane Bowmer of South port, 1-2 combination; Mrs. Geneva Kline White, formerly of Pinehurst, 5-6 combination; Mrs. Roberta Ward, formerly of Tabor City, grade 6; Ronald Hood of (Continued On Page 2) Commissioners Awaiting Re port Of These Findings Before Finally Setting Tax Rate Members of the board of county commissioners have ordered a spe cial audit of the accounts of the Brunswick County Board of Edu cation following a meeting here Wednesday night at which Attor ney Ray H. Walton charged that incomplete figures had been sub mitted by that office in its 1961 62 budget estimate. The special audit is being made by the W. C. Rains firm, the same accountants who have audit ed Brunswick county and the Brunswick County Board of Edu cation accounts for several years It is expected that the new fig ures will be available by August 11. Walton had been employee by a group of Brunswick county taxpayers to investigate the nec essity for a 25-percent increase ir the tax rate as had been proposec in connection with the tentative budget approved at a June 2( meeting of the board, and setting the tax rate at $1.63. On July V, Walton appeared before the com missioners to urge a downwarc revision of the tax rate, and the following day the board amendec their tentative budget upon the basis of a $1.47 tax rate. Since no part of this adjust ment was reflected in the 11-ceni increase being granted to the board of education, Walton ask ed for records from that office and following his examinatior asked for a special meeting witl the commissioners. They agreee to do this, after notice had beer given of a public hearing, anc this was the basis of the Wednes day night session. Walton declared that his in vestigation had revealed wide dis crepancies in the amount ol money which County Superinten dent John G. Long reported tc be left over in the three main funds in his office and fn the amount actually on deposit in the Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co. or June 30, 1961. Walton asked the county audi tor, Mrs. Ressie Whatley, what amount Long had reported in the current expense fund and she reac out the figure $7,401.50. Waltor said that records at the ban! showed that the actual figure was $61,984.20. Walton asked Mrs. Whatley what was the balance shown ir the capital improvements fund ir the budget estimate, and she re ported the amount to be $20, 643.30. Walton then declared tha the bank records showed this fig (Continued on Page 4) Assembly Nears Close Of Formal Season Programs ; Large Attendance Of Train ing Union Members' At Baptist Assembly This Week; Smaller Groups Coming The Baptist Assembly at South I Port was host this week to some j 600 registered guests who attend the third and last Training Union | week. This marks probably the last large gathering of Baptists at the 288-acre Assembly for the 1961 summer programming. ! . Hal Shoemaker, minister of mu i sic for the Pritchard Baptist Church of Charlotte, is in charge of music for the week. Next week the formal summer ! program will come to a close I when several groups of Royal Am | bassadors and Girl’s Auxiliaries ; representing churches including j those of Columbus County and i Wingate Baptist Church, Wingate, ! will hold their annual fall Youth I Retreat. The minister for the i week will be the Rev. Dewey j Hobbs, pastor of Wingate Baptist j church. The last three days of ] next week will be given over to Counselors Retreats, and on Sun day, August 13, Dr. Douglas M. Branch, general secretary for the N. C. State Baptist Convention, will bring the formal summer pro gram to a close with worship sendee in the morning. The huge religious retreat will not close down following next week, however Fred Smith, man ager of the Assembly, pointed out that only “the formal conferences will be discontinued.” Smith stat ed that “church groups number ing perhaps to one-hundred” will continue to use the Assembly facilities until fall arrives. The season now drawing to a close, taken all in all, is consider ed to be one of the most success ful since the Assembly moved to Fort Caswell. Attendance has broken all existing records, Smith reported. Community Clubs To Sponsor 4-H i Wilton Harrelson Has Been Elected Chairman Of The County Steering Commit tee Which Meets Friday I The community organization is now being set up to assist in the county 4-H Foundation Fund Drive that will start about the middle of September for Bruns wick County, according to Coun ty Agricultural Agent, A. S. Knowles. The County Steering Commit tee will meet again Friday night at the County Office Building in Supply to review the progress of the community organization and complete naming community chairmen. The meeting will start at 8:00 p. m. Wilton Harrelson of Shallotte, County Chairman, of the 4-H Fund Drive and Aubrey J. Johnston of Shallotte, County Treasurer, both stated this week that this was a good program and worthy of maximum support from all our citizens. The 4-H Foundation Fund is state-wide in scope and all coun 1 ties are being asked to participate in making it possible for more 4-H club boys and girls to take 1 part in (1) 4-H Camp activities, (2) take part in increased awards (Continued on Page 4) Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the week. These hours are i approximately correct and were furnished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. mUH LOW Thursday, August 3, 7:05 A. M. 1:12 A. M. 7:45 P. M. 1:46 P. M. Friday, August 4, j 8:01 A. M. 2:06 A. M. ! 8:45 P. M. 2:45 P. M. Saturday, August 5, 8:59 A. M. 3:04 A. M. 9:45 P. M. 3:41 P. M. Sunday, August 6, 9:53 A. M. 4:00 A. M. | 10:40 P. M. 4:35 A. M. Monday, August 7, i 10:44 A. M. 4:53 A, M. 11:30 P. M. 5:25 P. M. Tuesday, August 8, i 11:32 A. M. 5:43 A. M. 6:11 P. M. Wednesday, August 9, | 0:16 A. M. 6:30 A. M. ! 12:18 P. M. 6:53 P. M. I -
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