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Most of the News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT 5$ The Pilot Covers A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Brunswick County ■ Volume No. 22 No. 9 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Revise Schedule For Bookmobile Trips In County Board Of Trustees Of The Brunswick County Libr ary System Studies New Routing Major changes in the schedules of the Brunswick County Book mobile will go into effect August 28, opening date of the county schools. The present seven Book mobile routes will be expanded to eight, and all present stops will be affected except those on the Supply-Holden's Beach and Long Beach runs. All users of the Coun ty library system are urged to watch for the new schedules as they are published weekly in the State Port Pilot. Revisions in the routing and scheduling of the Bookmobile have been under discussion for some time by the Board of Trustees of the County Library system to de termine if maximum benefits were being received from the mobile operations. While the Public Li brary does not serve schools as such, it was evident that students who desired to continue use of the Bookmobile during the school term were, in most cases, unable to do so. The changes made are in an effort to have the Book mobile available to students after school hours in the areas where the Bookmobile is most heavily used. Typical of the charges are after-school stops in Shallotte, Le land, Bolivia and Longwood. The extra route being added will give afternoon stops at Maco, Elah and Lanvale, and will be listed as the Maco Route. It will begin on Wednesday afternoon, September 6. Just short of 12,000 books were borrowed from the Bookmobile during the last year, but the Li brary staff and Board of Trustees feel that until adequate library service is available in all the schools in Brunswick County, the Public Library system should see that students who wish to con tinue to read should not be denied the privilege. Ash Man Dies Joseph O. Piver Dies When Hydraulic Lift Allows Automobile To Fall On Him Joseph O. Piver, native of Ash, was instantly killed Sunday night in Wilmington when a hydraulic lift bearing an automobile fell on him, crushing his head. He was 33 years of age. INew Hanover County Coroner Gordon Doran Monday ruled the death accidental. Jack MacQueen of Wilmington discovered Piver’s body shortly after midnight when he drove into the steation-on Oleander Drive for gasoline, sheriff’s officers said. Luther C. Piver, the victim’s brother, who owned and operated the station with him, said there had never been any trouble with the lift before. Funeral services will be con ducted at Zion Baptist Church in Ash Wednesday at 3 p. m. by the Rev. Garland Long, and the Rev. Roland Lee. Burial will be in the family cemetery at Ash. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Continued On Page 4 Brktf Blto Of lnewsj BENEFIT SUPPER There will be a benefit supper at the Ocean View Methodist Church at Yaupon Beach Friday evening, starting at 5:30 o’clock. BENEFIT SUPPER The Shallotte Jaycees will spon sor a pancake supper Saturday evening at Shallotte High School Cafeteria, starting at 6 p. m. The proceeds will go for new safety sidewalks from the intersection of Highway No. 1? to the high school building. NEW EXAMINER M S. Rooks of Leland reported to the Motor Vehicles Department in Raleigh, Monday for further assignment. He has been a resi dent of Leland for about five years, and is married to Mildred Gainey. He was graduated from Long Creek Grady High School in Pender County in 1950. He was formally employed by Peoples Drug Company in Wilmington. Civil Defense Test Vi -m* "I 'AK3WI #1 "Y*'? & V mu — mi i m iiwm 11 PRACTICE—Shown in the center is A. S. Knowles, Civil Defense Director for Brunswick coun ty, who along with several members of his organization recently cooperated with Sunny Point Mili tary personnel in carrying out experiments designed to improve the safety of civilians in the event of enemy attack. Second from the left is J. M. King of Bolivia, and on the extreme right is Ennis Long of Supply. Waterspout At Holden Beach Causes Damage Sunday Storm Rips Roof Off House And Presents Strange View Of Capti- | ves Within Vortex A rare phenomenon, a tornado on the water (called a water-! spout), swept into shore at Holden Beach about 9 o’clock Sunday morning, completely unroofing one home and doing considerable dam age to two others. Hardest hit was the property i owned by Jack Smurrell of Colum bia, S. C., whose summer home was bared to the heavy rains which accompanied the freak storm when the wet twister car ried away its roof. Several thou sand dollars damages were inflict ed on the three houses in the path of the storm. Eyewitnesses reported that a black, funnel-like cloud, white at the bottom with water drawn from the sea, suddenly swept in to the front line of residences, tore up what it touched, and then went skipping back out to sea. In its maw the waterspout held more than a hundred gulls and other marine birds, entrapped, while witnesses told of seeing a pine tree also whirling about near its vortex. Bishop Wright Monday Visitor Large Congregation Attends Services Presided Over By Bishop Of Diocese More than one hundred persons attended St. Phillips Episcopal Church Monday evening to watch j the baptism and confirmation services conducted by the Right | Rev. Thomas H. Wright, Bishop i of the Diocese of East Carolina. Baptismal rites were conducted for the following four: Sue Jayne Sackett, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Harold W. Sackett; Philip Agnew Fulcher, III, son of Mr. [and Mrs. Agnew Fulcher; Keith Robert Holden, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Holden, and Jo anna Kinsler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kinsler. Nine confirmations were be stowed by Bishop Wright, upon Edward B. Jordan, Jr., son of the j summer rector of St. Phillips; I Frances and Greta Jorgenson, ] daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Neils i Jorgenson; Patti Page Key,' daughter of Mrs. Francis Key; j Billy Mace, daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. William Mace; Richard E. | McWilliams, son of Mrs. Joseph iRyne; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ride out, and Mrs. Robert Nicholson. \ Bishop Wright was accompanied from Raleigh to Southport by his wife, and arrived in time to par- i j take of the picnic supper prepared i i by the Women of St. Phillips in { | honor of the duel events and visi- I tation. The Rev. E. B. Jordan closes his Continued Ui. Page 2 1 Telephone System Is Being Expanded Candidate REV. JAMES K. JOHNSON Ordination Is Set At Bolivia Evening Services Sunday At Bolivia Baptist Church Will Witness Ordination Of New Minister The Rev. James K. Johnson will be ordained at the Bolivia Bap tist Church, Sunday at 8 p. m. Johnson has been called, and is now serving as pastor of the Le banon Baptist Church in Winna bow. The son of Mattie Smith and James Dallas Johnson of Bolivia, Johnson is married to the former Irmgard Hafner of Offenbach Main, West Germany. They have two. sons, Dieter, 15, and James Jr., 13. Johnson plans to continue his education at Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute where he is now in his second year. The Rev. Wade Bunce, pastor of the Bolivia Baptist Church, will be in charge of Sunday’s ordination service. The public is invited. Supply Fallout Shelter Planned Colony-Type Shelter Under Consideration Following Friday Night Meeting Colony-type fallout shelters may be on their way to the Supply section of Brunswick County, fol lowing a meeting held at the County Agricultural Building on Friday night of last week. A. S. Knowles, director of Civil Defense for Brunswick, reported that representatives of 20 fam ilies agreed at the meeting to Continued On Fage 4 New Exchange For Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation Being Built At Longwood • •»> The Board' of Directors of the | Atlantic Telephone Membership j Corporation, at a special meeting j on Friday night, August 18, 1961, 1 awarded the contract for rein : forcing and adding to existing ! lines over the entire system to i T. L. Dysard and Sons, States ville, North Carolina, in the sum ; of $247,347.51, subject to approval | of the supervising Rural Electrifi | cation Administration. This was the lowest of eight bids submitted in stiff competition and was well below the estimate of the Co operative's engineers and of the REA, and work will begin at j an early date. The Cooperative, which provides telephone service for most of Brunswick County, has rapidly grown to almost 1300 subscribers. The work provided for in this con tract will help to alleviate the burden on the crowded circuits of the Cooperative and provide for service to the many persons who have applications on file for telephone, but who cannot be serv ed because present facilities are inadequate. This work will also provide for service in the near I future to additional subscribers. Bids are also being asked for construction of the new central office building at Longwood, where a new exchange is being provided, in addition to the two present ones at Bolivia and Shal lotte. Additional central office equipment for all three exchanges j is also on order. Church Census Being Planned For September First Steps Have Been Tak en In Effort To Discover Pertinent Statistics In Southport Southport’s four Protestant churches will engage in a co operative, town-wide family church survey during mid-Septem ber. At a meeting of the ministers ! of the four Protestant churches in the city, held last week at the i Southport Baptist Church, plans were laid for the upcoming count of church members in the com munity. The survey, first of its kind to be taken in Southport in several years, will seek to determine just how many residents of Southport are actually members of the va rious churches in the city, and will also serve as the basis for future evangelism work by the churches. First steps have already been taken in the preparation phase of the census. A count of all the homes in the city has been made, and the community has been di vided into various zones. These zones will be convassed by the survey takers during the actual count. The ministers emphasized the cooperative nature of the survey, pointing out that each church will benefit from the move. Within the next few weeks, prior to the sur vey itself, teams of tellers and tabulators will receive training in the detail work of survey-taking. In a statement released shortly after the ministerial meeting, the local ministers said, “It is hoped that each congregation will co operate fully in this venture. We hope that each person called on to serve will give of his time willingly so that the survey will be successful.” A sample survey form will ap pear in a forthcoming edition of the State Port Pilot. ASCS Election Being Planned September 11 Is Date For Holding Community Com mitteemen Election In Brunswick Time draws near for the all important election of committee men for the ASCS program in Brunswick County and R. L. Price, manager of the ASCS of fice located at Shallotte urges all farmers to turn out and cast their ballot for the candidate of their choice on September 11. The list of candidates from Brunswick County was not com plete at this writing but will be furnished readers before the elec tion, Price promised. Successful candidates in the September 11 election will attend the county convention, where local committeemen will elect county committeemen to help steer the Soil Bank Program, the Agricul tural Conservation Program, Price Supports, Acreage Allotments, Marketing Quotas, etc., through 1962. The county convention will be held on September 21. Price said that anyone in Bruns wick County having an interest as owner, operator, tenant or share cropper of farms, will be eligible to vote for Community Commit teemen. The ASCS manager, to (Continued on Page 4) TIME and TIDE There was bad news on the frint page of The Pilot for August 26, 1936; The U. S. Quarrantine Station here was to be abandon ed. Across the page there was a picture and an article about the famous Indian Trail Tree which stands in the yard of the Cran mer residence. Brunswick county deer hunters had learned that the season would not open until October 1, in contrast with former opening dates of September 1; one local boy had won six carton of Luck ies in the Hit Parade Contest for that week; and Carey and Hannah Reece had won the mixed doubles championship of the Southport Tennis Club. Late in August, 1941, things were much as they are here now: A front page picture in The Pilot showed farmers receiving checks for tobacco skies; school officials still were trying to complete faculty vacancies; and people were paying their taxes— one Leland man with three bags filled with pennies, weighing 28-lbs. in all. An experiment was being conducted in an effort to discover some practical use for shrimp heads; a group of photographers models were headed for Bald Head Island for some publicity shots during the coming week-end; and a marauding bear in the Freeland community had turned on some would-be protectors of Continued On page 4 Board Takes Action— Commissioners Cut County Schools Levy ■* Ready For Market "/•?*>■ / . W / i. V < ^ - <■ ~~ ••••' &§S£§£iftKjta-: A & ■ ^cc- j&c*a«vw.‘1... Wa BRUNSWICK COUNTY FARMER Otis Evans of Ash, right, is shown as he waits for the unloading process of his truck of tobacco on the Whiteville tobacco market. Evans farms six acres of tobacco and he said that he has one of his better leaf crops this year. Standing beside Evans is O. F. Weeks, a warehouse employee. Evans further stated that he always sold his tobacco in Whiteville and added that he had never seen it sell so high. ABC Election Set For Long Beach! Honored mm mmm Mrs. Evelyn Gilbert of South port, who was honored last week in Asheville when she was award ed a Past State Counselor pin at the conclusion of her one year as head of the State organization of Daughters of America. Plans Complete To Open School Principal W. N. Williams Reports Short Schedule For Monday,, Full Sche dule Monday After School bells have been oiled and are ready to ring in Southport next Monday, although a number of details remain to be worked out after the faculty arrives for work on August 24. The school day will begin at 8:30 on Monday and each day thereafter. School will dismiss at approximately 12 noon on Monday and at 3 p. m. thereafter. August 28 will be devoted to orientation procedures, one of which is regis tration of students. It is important that all students be present to avoid the difficulties involved in registering late. First grade students who did not attend pre-school clinic should be accompanied to school by their parents, who should bring a birth certificate and record of vaccina tions with them as a beginner cannot be officially enrolled until these are presented. Orientation for high school stu- i dents will include the planning of j what courses they will take. Par7 i ents are urged to discuss this with ! their children. The luncheon will begin opera-! tion on Tuesday, August 29, and the price of lunches will be twen- j Continued On Page 4 ' kTown Council Votes To Pro ceed Under Authoriza tion Of House Bill No. 390 The Long Beach town board met on Saturday afternoon in a Short meeting with all members present. Also present was Davis C. Herring, town attorney, and Dan’l Walker, Long Beach town manager. The board ordered an alcoholic beverage controlled store referen dum, under the general statutes of N. C. and House bill number 390. An ordnance was passed placing a 35-mile speed limit on Ocean Highway, from Randolph St. to the western end of Ocean High way. It had been reported by the town manager that the State Highway Commission was placing additional signs designating from the city limits at Yaupon Beach to Randolph St. on Ocean High way, and Randolph St. to, and including Ocean Drive St. (front ing the ocean) as 35 mph speed zone. These are state-maintained thoroughfares. Intersections there in located are plainly marked 15 mph. The board also passed an ord nance prohibiting the burning of trash,- rubbish, garbage and grass, except in approved containers. Also adopted was the fining of litterbug violators up to $50, on all streets including the beach strand itself. High Point Street, Darlington (Continued on Page 4) Miss Loughlin New Supervisor Southport Teacher Goes Back To Position Of Su pervisor Of Elementary Education Miss Gertrude Loughlin has been appointed by the Brunswick County Board of Education to serve as supervisor of elementary school education, replacing Mrs. Mary Long Caldwell, who resign ed to join her husband, who is on active duty with the U. S. Army in Panama. Miss Loughlin is well known throughout Brunswick county, having served for four years as elementary school supervisor. She has taught in the Southport schools, and for two years work ed as office assistant in the office of the board of education. A further background of her teaching experience was gained in Wilmington, where she taught j (Continued on Page 4) Complete One Phase Of Tentative Budget At The Special Meeting Tuesday; Board In Session Today Members of the board of county commissioners voted at a special session Tuesday to levy 35-cents for public schools in the 1961-62 budget for Brunswick county, and they are meeting today to con sider the remainder of the budget items. They are expected to come up with a tentative budget and a tentative tax rate, two important matters in fiscal affairs which normally are disposed of prior to the beginning of the new year, now six weeks overdue. The proposed rate for public schools represents a reduction of 5-cents from the 40-cent levy for schools contained in last year’s budget; and it is a full 16-cents under the 51-cent levy made a part of the first two tentative budgets approved by the board during two stormy months of con troversy over financial matters. Action by the commissioners came in an executive session which was called after the board of education had met with them in joint session. At that time a new proposed budget for the board of education was presented, this one calling for a levy of 58 cents for school purposes. Minutes of the meeting show that “Upon motion of R. E. Bell amy, seconded by Ira D. Butler, and unanimously carried, the bud get for the board of education for 1961-62 be set at 35-cents, to be broken down as follows: 3-cents for current operations; 31-cents for capital outlay; 1-cent for debt service. The exact breakdown is in possession of the County Audi tor.” Before the meeting adjourned, on motion by Cortez Ward, sec onded by D. B. Frink and car ried by vote of the board that “Henceforth the board of educa tion adhere to and comply with the following: 1. “No funds shall be trans ferred from one budgeted account to another without prior consent of the board of county commis Continued On Page 4 Prominent Man To Speak Here Kenneth S. Keyes Will Come Here In October To Address United Congre gation Of Protestants Kenneth S. Keyes, outstanding Presbyterian layman, and promin ent real estate executive of Miami, Florida, will speak in Southport in late October. Keyes, a nationally recognized businessman as well as churchman, will be in town to ad dress a united congregation of Protestants on stewardship. Keyes, owner of the largest real estate agency in Florida, travels widely each year throughout the United States speaking on stew ardship and tithing. Ho is respect ed throughout the Presbyterian church for his excellent example of spirituality, and has been a leader in his denomination for (Continued on Page 4) 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, August 24, 5:43 A. M. 12:18 A. M. 6:28 P. M. Friday, August 25, 6:42 A. M. 1:00 A. M. 7:22 P. M. 1:13 P. M. Saturday, August 26, 7:39 A. M. 1:49 A. M. 8:14 P. M. 2:07 P. M. Sunday, August 27, 8:33 A. M. 2:38 A. M. 9:04 P. M. 2:59 P. M. Monday, August 28, 9:26 A. M. 3:26 A. M. 9:54 P. M. 3:50 P. M. Tuesday, August 29, 10:18 A. M. 4:14 A. M. 10:45 P. M. 4:41 P. M. Wednesday, August 30, 11:12 A. M. ' 5:63 A. M. 11:37 P. M. 5:34 P. M.
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