EDITORIALS
ELECTRIC CO-OPS FISCAL CONDITION
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The 10,748 member-owners of the
Brunswick Electric Membership co-ope
rative can take heart from the fact
that the system has not only met all
loan payments on time but also has de
posited almost a half a million dollars
as advance payments. This is evidence
of the fine financial health the co-op
erative is enjoying and it comes, as the
most unfamiliar would preceive, of
good management.
The president, board of directors,
general manager and office and field
forces to the last man, may take pride
in how well the fiscal obligations of the
system have been discharged.
However, on the state level a condi
tion of concern exists. Of the 190,000
member-homes served by the 31 co-op
eratives in North Carolina, 21,000 of
the homes are vacant. The absence of
occupants is not chargeable to the REA
but rather they are casualties of the
times. Despite all of this, the REA, said
Walter E. Fuller of the state associa
tion, the systems are filling a human
need and their established growth re
sults from the service and intelligent
management.
FIRST, FARTHEREST, LAST
In the Civil War North Carolina is
said to have furnished more troops and
more supplies than any other state in
the Confederacy and it is also credited
with being first at Bethel, fartherest at
Gettysburg and last at Appomattox, yet
in a war that a majority of the voters
did not want.
The State magazine tells up in its
October 28 issue that the Tar Heel
state rejected secession by a 1,000 ma
jority in February 1861, but after seven
states had already formed the Confed
erate States of America, North Carolina
threw in its lot May 20, of that year.
North Carolina had only one ninth
of the Confederacy’s population but
furnished one sixth of Southern troops.
The state furnished 125,000 troops out
of a military population of 115,000, and
its losses were 40,000, or more than one
Hie State Port Pilot
Published Every Wednesday;
Southport, N. C.
JAMES M. HARPER, JR. Editor
Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928
at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., and
other Post Offices, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Brunswick and Adjoining Counties
and Service Men . $2.00 per year
Six Months . $1.50
Elsewhere ii\ United States — $3.00
Per Year:—Months . $2 00
fourth of all who died in battle or of
wounds and disease. One fourth of the
total loss at Gettysburg were North
Carolina troops.
Among generals, the state furnished
two lieutenant generals, eight major
generals, and 26 brigadier generals. Of
this group nine died in battle or from
wounds.
The Twenty Sixth North Carolina
regiment, known as the Colonel Zebu
Ion Vance regiment, suffered the high
est casualties, 86 per cent, at Gettys
burg, the greatest of any regiment on
either side during the war.
To the Confederate Navy, North Car
olina contributed nine gunboats which
captured 16 enemy vessels and the cru
iser Shenandoah carried the Confed
erate flag around the world.
Although the Port of Wilmington was
blockaded during the war, Confederate
ships brought in $65 million worth of
supplies, the great volume of which was
transported to Lee’s Army in Virginia
over the Wilmington-Weldon railroad.
Alike
There is, so to speak, a greater re
semblance than appears on the surface
between prayer meetings and peace
conferences: the people who need them
least attend.—Troy Record.
Not The Same
My wife has been bragging that she
has been married to the same man for
seventeen years. That’s not so. I haven’t
been the same man since the first year.
—Covington (Ky.) Dispatch.)
TUESDAY IS DATE
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state ranked 46th among the
states in expansion of higher edu
cation facilities in the past de
cade. The funds will be used to
finance construction of dormito
ries, classroom buildings, crop re
search facilities, medical educa
tion, student centers and other
essential physical improvements
on senior college campuses and in
community colleges across the
state.
4. COMMUNITY COLLEGES:
Community colleges have been
one of the most significant devel
opments affecting education in
North Carolina in recent years.
These institutions, financed by lo
cal tax funds, state assistance,
and student tuition payments are
open to applicants from any coun
ty in the state. They bring two
years of college education at low
cost and open the door to the
full college course for many that
otherwise would be unable to at
tena college.
The issue calls for $1.4 million
tc be allocated on an equal match
ing basis with local funds.
5. ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
AND STATE LIBRARY BUILD
ING:
This section calls for $2.5 mil
lion and will be utilized to con
struct a building to house the
state Department of Archives and
History and Library.
At the present time the space
allocated to the two agencies is
only one-third the necessary space
required. The proposed building
would bring under one roof both
agencies which are now located
in seven diferent spots.
6. STATE PORTS:
The puipose of the State Ports
t>onds will be to finance site pre
parations and construction of
three new ship berths, two new
transit sheds, and two new ware
houses at cargo terminals at Wil
mington and Morehead City. This
will increase cargo vessel capa
city of each to eight ships and
will provide one additional open
berth. The state ports are con
sidered to be the fastest growing
ports on the South Atlantic and
the $13.5 million bond issue will
take care of estimated future ex
pansion to keep up with needs.
7. MENTAL INSTITUTIONS:
The $7.3 proposed issue will
provide additional needed renova
tions in the state’s mental hos
pitals to keep abreast of the
modern treatment programs. Also
it will provide for the care of
adolescents throughout the state
and will extend and improve the
facilities for training the children
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8. LOCAL HOSPITAL CON
STRUCTION:
This section would allocate
$500,000 to assist sponsors with
limited resources in constructing
needed community general hospi
tals, health centers, schools of
nursing and nursing homes. Many
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Not Exactly News |
Jack Frost paid his first visit of the season to Brunswick coun
ty Friday morning, and he made a return visit Saturday. One
sure sign of his presence was the blackened potato vines, but a
more colorful calling card was the color that suddenly appeared
in the foliage of trees and undergrowth in the woods along the
highways. Tuesday morning on our way to Shallotte to hear Gov
ernor Terry Sanford we were persuaded that there are enough
pretty scenes from here to Supply to more than make the trip
worthwhile.
Presence here Friday night of the 82nd Airborne Division Band
made this the most impressive Homecoming celebration ever held
at a football game in Southport. The band played good, listenable
music and the members were most co-operative. Aside from the
help that came from the school personnel, Mrs. Peggy Hood de
serves a hand for helping visualize as well as organize this event.
. . . Incidentally, having the band here was strictly first class,
for only two weeks ago it played for President John 'F. Kennedy
when he visited Fort Bragg.
The Shallotte High School trio which sang Tuesday morning
for Governor Sanford at the Education Rally started out as a
sextet—but the three missing members were at home with the
measles. The three who made it all are Hewetts, two of them
sisters. Incidentally, one of them, Carol Lane, is Miss Brunswick
County; Dora is her sister, the third is Toy Lane—and all of
them are very pretty . . . We have been getting a better break
on the Perry Como Show this season and have seen them all thus
far after failing to see a single one last year. Maybe a little of
the sparkle of other years is missing, but we still are a Como
fan . . . And speaking of television, we saw our first Andy Grif
fith Show Monday night, which was one of those times when our
TV set would pick up almost any station. Our first impression
is that with good material he could do better.
Going out to take stock of loss or gains on the day after Hal
loween is a little like checking up on damage the morning after
a hurricane has passed in the night. A quick and incomplete sur
vey today left us with the impression that tricksters and treaters
had spared the town to a remarkable degree in their celebration.
.... There’s no connection, of course, but by strange coinci
dence the weekend movie at the Amuzu is "The Big Fisherman”
while at Holiday Drive-In “Love In A Goldfish Bowl” will be
playing these same dates.
counties are unable to match the
available Federal funds for med
ical facility construction.
9. NATURAL RESOURCES
CONSERVATION AND DEVEL
OPMENT:
The bond issue would provide
$961,000 to meet the projected
long-range development program
to make the state’s park system,
now consisting of 12 parks, avail
able to more people.
10. STATE AGRICULTURE
Time and Tide
Continued From Pagp On*
the annual homecoming had been observed at New Hope Pres
byterian Church at Winnabow and Hr. and Mrs. Hubert Living
ston had purchased the Episcopal Rectory. On the lighter side,
a deer which had taken refuge from the hounds inside a wire
enclosure at the Price farm near Southport had leaped nimbly
from the pen once the disappointed dogs had dispersed.
Ten years ago this week plans for the U. S. Army Terminal
at Sunny Point still were under consideration. A letter received
i from B. B. Sorensen in Florida told of how “Sunny Point” got
its name. Alex Williams had resigned as deputy sheriff and
jailer and H. G. Ratcliffe had assumed these duties.
Sports fishing prospects at Southport were described as being
the best of the year; the F„ev. T. D. Toler had accepted a call as
pastor at Southport Baptist Church; and Southport had lost a
hard-fought 7-0 decision to Elizabethtown in football.
Southport had played host to the District meeting of the State
Federation of Woman’s Clubs, with the State president and other
officials being visitors here. CAP planes still were searching for
two men, reported missing in a small boat following a fishing
trip off the coast of Brunswick county.
A Southport merchant, Ormand Leggett, had found an honest
man, one who had paid him a debt owed to his father since
the year 1921; squirrel hunters had been complaining about the
windy weather, claiming that you cannot shoot a squirrel that
you cannot see because of the spinning leaves on the trees.
RESEARCH STATIONS:
Funds from this issue, $289,000,
would be utilized for additional
plot land, buildings and facilities
at research stations operated by
the NC department of agriculture
for research work carried out co
operatively with North Carolina
State college and the US Depart
ment of Agriculture.
BARBECUE SUPPER
Members of Zion Methodist
church at Town Creek will serve
a barbecue supper Saturday eve
ning. Barbecue will be cooked on
church grounds the day of serv
ing. They will start serving at
6:30 p. m. and proceeds are for
the benefit of the building fund.
STUDENTS BACK BONDS
Mary Emma Smith of Ash is
serving, along with 98 other stu
dents at East Carolina College,
as chairman of a student com
mittee to work in Brunswick
County toward passage of the
$61,665,000 State Bond Issue on
November 7.
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P.O. BOX 94 SOUTHPORT, N. C.
50-YEARS OF SERVICE
Southport Savings & Loan Association
Brunswick County's Oldest Financial Institution
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