All The Time THE PORT PILOT The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 22 A Goo^wspaper In A Good Community No. 7 10-Pages Today PORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1962 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY rrice Increase Predicted For Better Quality Larger Volume Of Selling Continues Despite Faci That First Sales Wer« Lower Than Expected Fhe Whiteville tobacco market began its first full week of sales of tied tobacco with warehouse men expressing optimism for higher prices along with better quality. Through Friday sales of last week, the local market maintain ed its lead over other border belt markets, volume-wise. The first five selling days netted 3, 813,302 pounds for $1,936,198 and a $50.77 average. Thursday’s aver age. jumped 12 cents a pound to a $58.42 from Wednesday’s $46.40 and Friday’s average went to $58.60. Wednesday was the last day of loose leaf sales, and a big reason for the $12 a hundred jump in prices. Most warehouses are full to day with nearly full to full sales the forecast for the rest of the week. Generally most county farmers have completed baming 1 tobacco and have begun grading and tieing. By the end of the ! week full sales will be general ' for the following two weeks. The USDA reports that on Border Belt markets during the untied sales period growers placed 1.4 per cent of gross turnover under government loan. On Thursday, when regular tied sales | began, 8.4 per cent of sales was ! received by stabilization for all Border Belt markets. The in crease of six cents per grade in loan rates and the offering of better quality tobacco were re sponsible for the upturn in sta bilization’s take Thursday and Friday, according to reports. The support level for all un tied tobacco offered during the first five days of sales, regard less of whether placed under loan or not, averaged $38.01 per hundred pounds. The support - level for the tied offerings on i Thursday figured $56.52. r ctrmers, warehousemen and buyers have generally agreed that loaf quality offered for sale so far has been below that offered in 1961. As farmers begin selling “leaf” tobacco prices are expect ed to rise to the 1961 level. Local warehousemen have noted that there will be plenty of room for selling local leaf during the next few days but also urge that farmers reserve space to be as sured of proper selling space. Mr+f K*> Of lnewsj AT ST. PHILLIPS Services will start at 9 o’clock Sunday morning at the St. Phil lips Episcopal Church. BAKE SALE There will be a bake sale Sat urday morning at 10 o’clock in front of the post office building sponsored by the women of St. Phillips Episcopal Church. MYF SUB-DISTRICT The MYF sub-district rally will be held Monday evening at Dixon Chapel in Varnum Town. It be gins at 6:30 p. m. with a sand wich supper. All members are urged to attend. HOME FROM HAWAII Miss Gertrude Loughlin, Bruns wick County Supervisor of Ele mentary Education, has returned from a vacation visit with Mr. and Mrs. Don Williams and fam ily in Hawaii. Her brother, J. j. Loughlin, Jr., is spending several months with Mrs. W’illiams. FISHING TRIP On an overnight trip Sunday night and Monday, M. Louder of Myrtle Beach, S. C., caught 20 king mackerel, 16 dolphin, 200 to 300 pounds of red snapper and blackfish, 6 barracuda, 2 amber jack and 6 bonito while fishnig with Capt. Walter Lewis aboard the John Ellen. ASC FALL SIGN-FP The 1962 ACP fall sign-up will i begin on August 20, and continue through August 31. All farmers needing assistance in carrying out approved conservation prac tices in their farms are urged to j contact the ASCS office at Slial- ! Iotte during the above period if possible. Some of the practices aavilable this fall are permanent pasture or hay, liming materials on farmland, winter cover crops 1 tree planting, forest improvement.’ I This Is Not Fair Dan’D ° Wa 1 ke™Town ftiana a^,th| Tbig: fellow which declared ineligible for tho N c"'Crab1 ??*hBeac,h.’ has to be run on the afternoon of' Autus*?/is Beach. That race is restricted u 2 u* J‘ong crabs. restricted to blue, hardshell Plans Progress For Holding Crab Derby Long Beach Will Be Site For Second Annual N, C. Crab Derby Held As Pro motion For Crab Industry Indications are that a large crowd will be present at Long Beach August 25 for the running of the second annual North Caro lina Crab Derby to select an entry to repreesnt the State at the National Crab Derby in Crisfield, Md., September 1. The event, designed to stim ulate interest in and increase consumption of crab meat taken fi om millions of crabs now caught in State waters, is being promoted by the Town of.Long Beach, in cooperation with the Vorth Carolina Department of conservation and Development. Champion crabs from North -.aroilna’s 12 crab-producing coun :ies will race each other down a i i-.jui. piywooci track here at ' : 2:30 p. m. on that day for the 1 j ri&ht t° represent the State’s crustaceans in ‘he annual Na tional Crab Derb % | > * j This State’s crab-producing j counties are: Currituck, Tyrrell, j Dare, Hyde, Carteret, Brunswick,' New Hanover, Onslow, Craven, Pamlico, Pender, and Beaufort. More than 16 million pounds of hard blue crabs were taken last year from the waters of these counties, according: to the U. S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. North Carolina has more than i doubled its crab production in the ! Past eight years and now ranks fourth in the nation in the output of this delicacy of the sea. Dan L. Walker, Town Manager j | of Dong Beach, says preparations i are being made to handle a large ! crowd expected to attend the ! unique race. Other events will also be on the program. Judges for the derby will be: ' Woodrow Price, Managing Editor, ' News and Observer, Raleigh; Ed ucat'd H. (Duck) Lewis, secretary,’ North Carolina Motel Association! I Raleigh; and Robert L. Lowery' secretary, North Carolina Asso- I eiation of Quality Restaurants. Ben McDonald, News Director ' Station WECT-TV, Wilmington! will be master of ceremonies. Wade Lucas, Information Offi ^ cer for the N. C. Department of Conservation and Development, is j helping to coordinate and pro- I mote the event on behalf of the State agency. Three trophies will be awarded in the Crab Derby, for first, sec- I ond and third place finishes, in (i addition there will be a contest I for the best deviled crabs and JI crab cakes, with six entries in! ( (Continued On Page 4) School Safety Man Is Coming The Safety representative of the State Board of Educa tion will be in the county August 20-24 to certify school bus drivers who have not al ready been certified, Supt. John G. Long said this mor ning. Supt. Long said the repre sentative. H. Crowley, will be at the Shallotte garage and at the Waccamaw school Monday, at Southport, Leland and Bolivia Tuesday, Union school Wednesday, Lincoln Thursday and at the Bruns wick Training school Friday. Get Inquiries On Marinology Brunswick County Board Of Education Served As Pi oneer In Program At Southport j A Jetter received recently from Gloucester, Mass., by John G. ; Long, superintendent of Bruns wick County Schools, indicates the widespread interest in the course in Marinology that has been offered at Southport High School for the past several years. Text of the letter follows: "T h e Gloucester Vocational j School received an outline of your Fishing Course in 1958 during an investigation of subject material, ''ith the intention of program ming a fisheries course at Glou cester Vocational School. This course, Fishing and Vessel Man agement, is due to begin this coming school year. X was em ployed as Co-ordinator-Instructor, and am in the process of taking the 1958 program and adapting it to present conditions for pre sentation this fall. I am writing to ask you if there have been any changes in course content or time devoted to the various subjects. Such in tot mation would be of assistance to us in our program.” Supt. Long says that this is .ypical of inquiries that have come n from near and far, some of (Continued On Page 4) Jay Dance Tllp Raise cer Funds Satut^eptember 1 Has Be4f As Date For Ben Project To Aid Caj|? rive As gt of the failure of the aipund drive in Bruns wick <j|to reach the success ful ie« the two preceding years, puthport Jaycees have initiat&roject to conduct a benefitf' at the Community Buildii&Southport on Satur day e\ft September 1. Brigi James Glore has stated 1 the failure to make an a® showing for the j Ameripmcer Society in the is due to several principally to the absent in Burma dur al time. nt of the Brunswick t of the American iety, General Glore [hat in 1960 the coun raised some $13000, 1961 exceeded that me $200. At present, 62 Crusade there is imately $600 on hand, sections of the coun t to be heard from. Shallotnd Iceland areas have been Urtant regions in past 1962 reaso fact ing t; As Coun Cane point; ty C: and figuri for only and ty crus; Th, Sout; the sade whici of t; G; rts of the Jaycees in are expected to exceed esults in the last cru o the record of success attended other efforts anization. Glore has asked that all visually support the Can cer Cr des, and have not been contact this year, respond to the Ja e project for the com munity ance on September 1. He|th Workers FuU Salary Vacancy Ocmrs In Staff Of . Brunswic* bounty Health (DepartmentAnd Replace ment South With a spefia: grant from the I State Board of Health, beyond their normal contribution to the Brunswick Count Health Depart ment, the coSnty commissioners have - provide^!sufficient funds to meet in full the budget submitted I by the County^ Board of Health. This is particularly pleasing to Health officials as the new 1962 63 Merit System Salary Scale had made sizeable increases in the I minimum mandatory salaries in a number of| positions. David I. Alford, sanitarian, is resigning the last of this month to accept a ppsition with the Vir ginia Sch ol l System. The Sani tary Engiiefang Division of the State Boa d Df Health is being contacted nin effort to replace him. The hsj ections and grading of all foodiar Uing establishments, meat martel i, motels, etc. will be brought u to date before the termination < : Alford’s services. The Stael Board of Health usually dots ] lot have a waiting list of qiali ied trainees. Any Continued on Page Three TIME and TIDE Twentyft and was c host to tlie and over t The favored ‘‘S; board. A man of four heads. John! ii v o “Geei ii fr fi'Pt c years ago this week the sailing regatta was over o isidered to be a successful venture. Southport was yachting crowd with various kinds of entertainment thousand visitors that saw the races, ee” of Savannah, Ga„ took the Class “A” title from yfidicate” when the skipper of the Latter fell over >m the Holden’s Beach prison camp saved a family drowning when they went in water over their ie Varnurn was credited with this dramatic rescue. Twenty y iars ago this week a scrap metal drive was being' conducted b r the Southport churches. The proceeds from this campaign w ire to go to the churches. Dances Wire being held in the U.S.O. building once again. >, along with games and movies, highlighted the ac ervice men in this area. The makiig of surgical bandages was postponed because the material had not arrived due to unavoidable difficulties; two men escaped through the front door of the jail with the hel pof a hacksaw; fifst aid classes for the Civilian Defense and the Red Cross disaster relief committee were being held here. F ifteen years ago this week a wide variety of fish were caught offshore and were highlighted by eight sailfish strikes and two catches. The biggest sail measured 7’2” and weighed 55-pounds. The Brunswick cold storage plant at Shallotte was to open in the coming week; Bill Sharpe, director of the State News Bu reau, was to make a picture story of the intracoastal waterway as soon as he finished his vacation; Long Beach was growing Continued On Page 2 Turtle Egg Hunt SJ -# t ' .. < DIGGING—Mrs. Reese Swan and Mrs. Kenneth Stiller watch in amusement as their children burrow in the sand to recover eggs from a new-found turtle nest. The golf-ball looking white objects in the foreground are the fruit of the hunt. Two of the kids are so enthusiastic in their search they have almost disappear ed from sight into the sand nest. County Baptists Mission Schools To Start Sunday A Simultaneous Educational Program Will Be Conduc ted Throughout Bruns wick By Visiting Leaders The Brunswick County Baptist Association is sponsoring a School of Missions during the period of August 19-24 which will involve a large number of the churches of this county in a simultaneous training program under the lead ership of several outstanding in structors. Participating churches include Leland, Elah, Town Creek, Leban on, Mill Creek, Peace, Bolivia, Southport, Antioch, Bethel, Oak Island, Supply, Mt. Pisgah, Oak Grove, Calvary, Jennie Branch and Shallotte. The plan calls for a different speaker each night following the mission study session, and these will include persons prominent In the field of foreign missions as well as home missions and state mission program. This will afford an unusual opportunity for Bap tist laymen to learn of the scope and pur poses of the entire mission program of the church. Among the speakers will be missionaries home on leave from Tiawan, Philippines, Costa Rica, Continued On Page 4 Brunswick County Schools To Open Graduates 2ND LIEUTENANT ARNOLD Supply Man 1$ Air Force Grad 2nd Lieutenant Wilson T. Arnold Receives Pilot Wings Following Gradu ation From Training Second Lieutenant Wilson T. Arnold of Supply has been award ed United States Air Force pilot wings following his graduation from pilot training at Reese AFB, Texas. Lieutenant Arnold, a graduate of East Carolina College, Green ville, flew the T-37 and the new supersonic T-38 jets during the year-long flying training course. Continued On Page 4 Insect Stings Are Dangerous Brunswick County Health Officer Issues Warning Concerning These Com monplace Hurts Venom from honeybees, bum blebees, Wasps, yellow jackets and hornets is drop for drop just as potent for certain susceptible per sons as deadly rattlesnake venom, says Dr. A. H. Elliot, Director, Brunswick County Health Depart ment. Authorities believe that stings by these insects kill more people in the United States than the feared rattler. One prominent specialist suggests that some of Continued On Page 4 ♦Principals Begin Work This Week, With Opening Day Of School Set For August 28th Brunswick county school princi pals are back on the job begin ning today (Wednesday) and there are other signs of prepara tion for the opening of schools for the fall term. First day on the job for Bruns wick county school teachers will be Friday, August 24. Pupil orientation, actually the first day of school, since all stu dents are expected to be present, will be on Tuesday, August 28. Classes will begin on the follow ing day, August 29. Superintendent John G. Long reported this week that every thing is shaping up well for the new school year, with a minimum of teaching vacancies to be filled. There will be only one change in principals, this being at Leland High School. Rockfellow Ventters, formerly principal for three years at Long Creek-Grady in Pender County, will be the new man. He is a graduate of East Caro lina College, from which he also holds a masters degree. He has 8 years experience as principal, plus 11 years as teacher. He is married and has a son who will be a member of the junior class at East Carolina this fall. He is a Methodist, a 32nd De gree Mason and a Shriner. Receiving Feed Grain Payments ASC Official Estimates Pay ments About One-Third Complete In Brunswick Ralph Price, ASC office man ager at Shaliotte, reported Tues day that about one-third of the eligible farmers in Brunswick county have received their final payments in the Feed Grain Pro gram. When a sumary was made Mon day, Price says that figures show ed 262 farmers have received $27,900.58 in final payments under the program. There were 670 far mers to sign up, earning a total of about $100,000 in payments. “This would indicate that we are about one-third complete”, Price figured. He said that Waccamaw town ship farmers are the only ones who have not yet been mailed their cards. He says these will go out this week. “Any farmer who has not received his notice within the next 10 days should come to the office to see us, Price said. He urges farmers who have re ceived their cards to bring them when they come to the office for i final setlement. Historical Group Holds Meeting In Leland Section Largest Crowd In History Of Brunswick County His torical Association Hears Rev. H. A. Phillips The Brunswick County Histor ical Society met Monday night at the Woodburn Presbyterian Church with approximately 70 people attending the third meet ing of the year. This was a rec ord-breaking attendance for the society meetings. This speaks well for Leland, host to the Historical Society for this meeting, at which time the speaker was Rev. H. Arthur Philips, pastor of the Camp Meth odist Church in Shallotte. The Rev. Mr. Philips gave the back ground history, leading up to the’ granting of the Carolina Charter of 1663. Mrs. M. H. Rourk, president of the group, mentioned that in the coming year there will be a cele-. bration, referred to as the Ter centenary. Mrs. Rourk, who is! Brunswick County representative on the Commemorative Events Committee of the Tercentenary said that markers will be placed at historic points, designating roads, ferries, homes of leading personalities, etc. of the 1663-1763 period. The second portion of the pro gram was conducted by one of the directors, R. V. Asbury, Jr. as an informal discussion about the history of the local area. Due to the absence of Bill Adams, Asbury related that Leland was named for Leland Adams. Years before, this community was called Gay’s Station, but when the Post Office Department wanted to open an office there, several names were submitted. The name Leland was chosen and went into effect on February 10, 1898. Asbury called upon W. J. But ler, who gave information on the plantations in the Northern part of the County: Port Vernon, | Green Banks, Wanet, Roan, Point Repose, Magnolia, Auburn, Dalli son, Mulberry. Mrs. Lee Blake gave a report on some graveyards she has visit ed and epitaphs she had record ed. She brought to the meeting several interesting ' artifacts, which weer exhibited along with the other displays. One of the other displays was a large map of the county show ing locations of historic sites and their names. There was also one on the Carolina Charter, showing pictures of six of the eight Lord Proprietors and a picture of a map showing the land which the Charter covered. The third dis play dealt with old buildings and was titled "A Historic House of the Past and Present”. It tied in with N. C. Travel Council Statis tic which states that in 1960 tourists spent $2,505,000 in Bruns wick County. The point was made of the importance to preserve buildings to show posterity as well as the motoring tourists. Asbury pointed out to the group that the Historical Society wel comes questions and inquiries about the county history from school children and adults, alike. Anyone interested in joining the group should contact Miss Helen Taylor, secretary-treasurer, Win nabow. Rev. Randolph W. Graham, pas tor of the Woodburn Presbyterian Church, host to the society, con cluded by inviting the group of historians to return for future meeting to hear more about the history of the Northern section of Brunswick County. 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. Thursday, August lh‘ 7:52 A. M. 2:10 A. M. 8:28 P. M. 2:20 P. M. Friday, August 17, 8:45 A. M. 2:57 A. M. 9:18 P. M. 3:12 P. M. Saturday, August 18, 9:37 A. M. 3:45 A. M. 10:09 P. M. 4:04 P. M. •Sunday, August 19, 10:32 A. M. 4:34 A. M. 11:01 P. M. 4:58 P. M. Monday, August 20, 11:29 A. M. 5:25 A. M. 5:55 P. M. Tuesday, August 21, 6:17 A. M. 12:28 P. M. 6:55 P. M. Wednesday, August 22, 0:54 A. M. 7:15 A. M. 1:29 P. M. 8:00 P. M.

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