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STATE PORT PILOT
Volume No. 22
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No. 14
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The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1962
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Telephone Officials
RE-ELECTED—Harry L, Mintz,' center, was re-el
ected president of the Atlantic Telephone Member
ship Corporation Thursday night. H. Foster Mintz,
on his right, was re-elected vice-president and Joe
C. Stanaland, on his left, was re-elected secretary
treasurer. Other members of the board of directors
are Wilson Arnold, left, Roddie Bennett; and on
the right are A. P. Henry, Jr., and E. L. Piggott.
Registrars For
Coming Election
Get Appointment
Other Preparations For The
Forthcoming General Ele
ction Taken Care Of By
Board Of Elections
Members of the Brunswick
County Board of Elections met
Monday to lay plans for conduct
ing the forthcoming general elec
tion on November 6.
Chairman H. Foster Mintz says
that absentee ballots may be pro
cured now for service men and
women and that beginning Octo
ber 6 applications will be received
for civilian absentee ballots.
Chairman Mintz wished to make
it clear that no applications fdr
absentee ballots will be accepted
after 6 p. m. November 2.
Registration books and other
supplies will be delivered to reg
istrars in time for them to begin
registration of voters on Satur
day, October 13.
Following is a list of registrars,
together with the poUing places
in the respective precincts:
Hooks Creek, Mrs. Alma Medlin,
Medlin Building; Leland, Mrs. J.
F. Johnson, School House; Town
Creek, Mrs. A. P. Henry, Jr.,
Henry’s Warehouse; Bolivia,
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-NEWS-1
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SOUTHPORT BOY SHOT
Craig Caster, Jr., is recovering
from gunshot wounds received in
a hunting accident last week. He
had a miraculous escape from se
rious injury.
YDC TO MEET
The Brunswick County Young
Democrats Club will meet Mon
day night at 7:30 o’clock at the
Agriculture Building at Supply,
BENEFIT BARBECUE
A pit-cooked barbecue supper
has been scheduled for Saturday
at 6:30 p. m. at the Zion Metho
dist church in Town Creek. The
proceeds will go to the building
fund of the church. The supper
will be served buffet style in the
Fellowship Hall. Home-made pies
and cakes will also be on sale.
METHODIST REVIVAL
The Ocean View Methodist :
church at Yaupon Beach will hold i
a revival from Sunday, October j
7, through Friday, October 12
according to Rev. B. H. Lamb! 1
It will begin at 7:30 o'clock 11
nightly and Rev. Charles Laneas- j i
ter of Southport will serve as j ]
guest evangelist. '
Progress Report
Members Of Atlantic Tele
phone Membership Co-of
Re-Elect All Members Oi
Board Of Directors'
The growth oi cammunieatioi
facilities in Brunswick county wai
discussed at the annual meeting
of the Atlantic Telephone Mem
bership Corporation at the Shed
; lotte High School auditoriun
Thursday night.
President Harry L. Mintz, Jr.
of Shallotte, Vice President H
Foster Mintz of Bolivia, and Sec
retary-Treasurer Joe C. Stanalanc
of Ash were reelected as officer!
of the corporation while Wilsor
Arnold of Supply, Roddie Bennetl
of Freeland, A. P. Henry, Jr., oi
Winnabow and E. L. Pigott oi
Shallotte were named to the
board of directors.
James M. Harper, Jr., the main
speaker for the evening, talkec
about development in Brunswick
county.
The corporation first opened for
public service on July 5, 1957
with only 537 telephones in opera
tion. The service grew last year
from 1,322 members to 1,645
members. More than 420 miles of
telephone lines now cover the
county. A new exchange was
established for Longwood in 1962
and Holdens Beach will soon be
serviced by the exchange.
The speaker declared that the
foundation for present-day pro
gress in Brunswick county was
laid more than 20 years ago when
REA first made electric power
available throughout the rural
areas. He declared that the more
recent addition of telephone com
munications had given added im
petus to the development pro
gram.
Harper said that the next
phase of development will be the
development of industries in or
der to afford diversified employ
ment for citizens of this county.
"More and more of our boys and
girls are going to college’’, he
said, “but most of them must
seek elsewhere for jobs in their
fields of specialized training. This
means that we are exporting our
most precious product, our train
ed young people.”
The speaker pointed to the re
:ent growth and development of
:his area for recreation and re
tirement living, and again point
sd to the direct influence that
ftEA electric service and tele
Jhone communications has had on
this movement.
The invocation was given by
^ev. Joseph L. Lassiter. Kirby i
Sullivan of Southport conducted j
he elections and William E..
Jrock of Wilmington presented
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Democrats Will
Convene Friday
' A Democratic Speaking
rally will be held on Satur
day, October 12, at 7:30 at
1 Bud Tindall’s Store near Hol
den Beach, according to
Chairman Kirby Sullivan of
the Democratic Executive
Committee.
All Brunswick county Dem
ocratic candidates will be
present at the rally. A well
known Democrat from out
side the county will be one
of the main speakers.
This will be the first of
the Democratic speakings
which will be held through
out the county before the
election.
Johnson Made
Bonds Chairman
Cashier Of The Waccamaw
Bank & Trust Co. At
Shallotte Will Serve As
Volunteer Chairman
Aubrey C. Johnston, chashier
and manager of the Shallotte
branch of the Waccamaw Bank
& Trust Co., has been installed
as Brunswick County Volunteer
Chairman of the U. S. Savings
Bonds Division of the Treasury
Department.
The installation and announce
ment was made Friday night in
Wilmington at an area Savings
Bonds meeting held on the U. S.
Battleship North Carolina, by
| William H. Andrews, Jr., of
! Greensboro, State Volunteer
Chairman.
William H. Neal, formerly of
Winston-Salem, National Director
of the Savings Bonds Division,
was the featured speaker of the
meeting, attended by approx
imately 125.
“North Carolina stands first
among the Southeastern states in
rate of sales increase compared
to those of last year,” the Treas
ury Department official told the
group of bankers, industrialists
and North Carolinian Savings
Bonds volunteers.
In renorting on the all-time
Treasury record of $45.1 billion
in E and H Savings Bonds now
outstanding, Neal stated: “I’m
proud to note that the record of
North Carolina in this 21-year
history of the Bond program has
continued to be outstanding.
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Fall Fishing In
High Gear With
Varied Catches
Sailfish Landed A» King
Mackerel Begin To Show
Up In Great Numbers
Offshore
The. landing of sailfish high
lighted the fishing catches along
the Brunswick coast this week
end.
An unidentified member of the
Guy knead party of Monroe
landed the sailfish aboard Cap
tain H. A. Schmidt’s “Idle On
III”. The party also caught 20
kings.
On Saturday, Frank Cook and
party of Charlotte, aboard Cap
tain Basil Watts’ “Idle On II”,
landed 35 kings. Hans Jameson and
party of High Point, aboard the
same boat Sunday, caught 17
kings, 10 blues, 2 barracuda, 2!
amber jack and 8 bonita.
R. E. Edwards and party of
Concord landed 34 amber jacks
from Captain Hoyle Dosher’s
“Idle On IV” on Saturday. The
next day, Jack Schoeff and party
of Greenville, S. C. caught 18
kings, 6 bonito, 6 fcarraoutia and
3 amberjacks from the same boat.
In addition to the offshore suc
cesses, there were a large number
of small boats fishing on the i
shoals during the weekend, and :
they all had good luck with big
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Wednesday Last
Selling Day On
Whiteville Mart
This Border Belt Market
Has One More Week To
Sell 1962 Tobacco Pro
duction
George Gold, sales supervisor
for the Whiteville Tobacco Mar
ket, announced this (Wednesday)
afternoon that next Wednesday,
October 10, will be the last sales
day for this season on that Bor
der Belt market.
Already new poundage records
have been set. Through last Fri
day's sales • 38,034,894 pounds
went to buying firms. This com
pares to 34,778,822 total pounds
for the 1961 selling season. •
The average price per pound
through Friday of last week is
listed at $61.55 by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Volume continued to remain
strong last week with the two
sets of buyers purchasing up to
5,200 piles per day. Stabilization
received the highest percentage of
sales last week of any wek dur
ing the season. It is estimated
that 17.5 per cent went to stabili
zation. This puts the deliveries to
stabilization at 9 per cent for the
season. Last year only 2.5 per
cent was placed under loan. The
support price for all tobacco of
fered last week in the Border
Belt, regardless of whether placed
under loan or not, averaged
$56.85 per hundred pounds. The
support level has averaged $56.61
for the entire season.
Report from warehouses this
morning indicate that a typical
Monday is in process. Prices are
up with all houses reporting full
sales. Heavy sales are expected
the rest of this week as county
farmers begin to finish up pro
cessing their cured leaf.
Prospects, according to George
Gold, Whiteville sales supervisor,
are that the local market will go
well over 40 million pounds in
sales. With seven more sale dates,,
and the total pounds sold at 38
million final totals are expected
to reach between 41 and 42 mil
lion pounds.
May Organize
t Leland Jaycee
Preliminary Meeting Will
Be Held Friday Evening
To Discuss Prospects
A meeting to organize a chap
ter of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce in Leland will be held
Friday at 7:30 p. m. at the Le
iand Fire Department building.
Officers of the North Carolina
lunior Chamber of Commerce and
the Southport Jaycees will attend
the meeting and explain the pur
poses and operation of the or
ganization. They will also answer
questions as to why Leland should
have a junior chapter.
‘‘All young men in the Leland
irea between the ages of 21 and
36 are invited to attend this Jay
see meeting”, Kirby Sullivan.
State vice president in charge of
die JSighth District, stated.
Members of the Southport Jay
sees who will attend the Leland
neeting include Sullivan, Roger
Ward, David Swain and James
Wolfe.
TIME and TIDE \
Five years ago this week George Wortham, a long time char
acter along the Southport waterfront, died at the age of 84 after
an extended illness. George was a fishing &uide locally for more
than fifty years, and served as the oarsman for the Cape Fear '
Pilots on their 15 mile trip to sea before the use of power ves
sels.
The members of the Southport Lions Club were to sponsor an- 1
other light bulb sale; the annual banquet of the Southport Char- 1
ter Boatmen’s Roadeo was to be held here; good catches of '
king mackerel were being reported; and two exhausts fans were ]
stolen from a Shallotte church.
Ten years ago this week advertising bids for the dredging of ;
the ammunition dock at Sunny Point were scheduled to be accep
ted. The area was 35 feet in depth and involved the moving of '
18,000,000 cubic yards of sand, mud and marl. 1
Fishermen were happy about the fine catches brought in here 1
during the preceding week. Good weather prevailed and seemed '
to have an effect on the fishing. Several boats reported 150 blue- |
fish, while almost every member of the fishing boat fleet had in i
excess of 100. Also caught was a 7’6” sailfish. i
The Etheridge family of Hickman’s Cross Roads was rudely *
awakened as a speeding automobile plunged into the side of their 1
house, causing considerable damage. Jack Brown was appointed !
county tax collector; the swinging bridge to be located at Hol
den Beach was being '•constructed on a dry strip of land near <
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Officer Reports
At Sunny Point
Capt. Charles F. Danley
Will Be In Operations Di
rectorate Of U.S. Army
Terminal
Capt. Charles F. Danley has
recently been assigned to Sunny
Point Army Terminal with duties
in the operations directorate.
Captain Danley was bom in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and at
tended public schools in that city.
He graduated from the Central
Pennsylvania .Business College
and the Hampton Roads Business
College at Newport News, Vir
i ginia.
He first entered the military
service in 1943 and served five
years with the United States
Navy. He was commissioned an
officer in the United States Army
Reserve in 1951, and has since
served in overseas assignments in
Greenland, Korea, Japan, and
France, as well as several mili
tary installations in the conti
nental United States.
He is married to the former
Audrey Cooper of Seaford, Vir
ginia.
CAPT. CHARLES F. DANLEY
■ Captain and Mrs. Danley will
reside at Fort Johnston, South
port, during his tour of duty at
Sunny Point.
They have one child, a daugh
ter, Margaret, age ten.
Two Men Die From
Injuries In Blast
ASC Officials
Visit Morehead
Brunswick ASCS personnel and
County Committeemen attended
an Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service meeting in
Morehead City on Monday and
Tuesday, according to Manager
ftv L. Price, .
The first day was devoted to
indoctrinating the county com
mittees while production adjust
ments, agricultural conservation,
and price supports were discussed
Tuesday.
Lonnie Evans, Edgar L. Hol
den, Lay Long, Manager Price,
Ada L. Vamum, Doris Rabon and
Sarah Knox represented Bruns
wick county at the meeting.
Money Available
For Home Loans
Secretary Of Agriculture
Makes Announcement Re
garding Farm Home Con
struction
An additional $152 million has
been made available for rura
housing loans, Secretary of Agri
culture Orville L,. Freeman has
announced.
The action makes a total oi
$182 million available through the
Farmers Home Administration foi
this type of credit during fiscal
1963. The funds come from the
$430 million authorized by the
housing Act of 1961, to be ex
pended within a 4-year period,
Approximately $95 million was
obligated during fiscal 1962.
These funds will help 20,000
rural families who do not now
have adequate housing to obtain
credit to finance a new home or
improve the home they already
own.
The rural housing program is
also a driving force in rural area
development. The construction
carried on with the funds pro
vides work for local carpenters,
masons, plumbers and electricians
and steps up the sales of build
ing supply dealers and other
nerchants in small rural com
munities. The wages received by
the workmen and the profits re
ained by the businessmen are in
urn circulated through local
rade channels, invested in local
mterprises. The effect of the
lousing dollar is multiplied many
-imes before its force is diminish
;d.
In addition the housing loans
ire helping to stabilize the
itrengthen rural communities by
creating attractive modern living
acilities, the type of house con
itruction that makes communities
lesirable places in which to live.
“The program has also
>een highly successful so far as
epayments are concerned,” the
ecretary said. More than $417,
00,000 has been advanced in
ural housing loans since 1949.
Principal and interest payments
otal $147,000,000. Only $86,000,
r two one-hundredths of one per
ent have been written off as un
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'Joel Johnson Died Thurs
day .Morning And Alex
ander Galloway Died
This Morning From Burns
Abofcrd Vessel
Two men have died of injuries
sustained last Tuesday afternoon
when a blast of undetermined ori
gin occurred aboard the menhad
en boat Brunswick as it entered
the mouth of the river following
a day of fishing.
" Thfe" ;aead' men are Joe! John
son, 42-year-old colored resident
of Supply, who died Thursday
morning; and Alexander Gallo
way, 62-year-old colored resident
of Southport, whose death oc
curred early this morning.
They were the most seriously
injured of the seven crew mem
bers hurt in the accident, and
the other men are in satisfactory
condition.
The Brunswick had reached a
point, opposite the pier at the
Baptist Assembly when a power
ful explosion shook her. Immedi
ately flames broke out, and the
seven men were burned while in
the galley. The crew took to the ;
purseboats and came to shore in
that manner, with the injured be
ing rushed to Dosher Memorial :
Hospital.
Capt. Dewey Willis remained
aboard and brought his crippled '
vessel to the dock, where the
Southport .Volunteer Firemen put 1
out the fire. The menhaden boat '
later was able to proceed to the
factory and unload her cargo of ■
350,000 fish.
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Replace Buoys
For Shrimping
Report Received That This
Operation Has Been Com- 1
pleted By The U.S. Coast 1
Guard 1
The Cape Fear River entrance
snag buoys have now been re
placed and relocated, according
to N. C. Bellamy of Supply,
The 19 buoys, consisting of
black and white vertically strip
ed nuns or cans equipped with
white reflectors, are located in
the ocean near the entrance of
the Cape Fear river to mark the
snags at the bottom.
Before the buoys arrived, the
snags had to be located and
marked with flags. Then Captain
Pehaim and his crew on
the “Jonquil” put the buoys in
at the marked spots. Bellamy
assisted the Coast Guard in this
operation.
The snag buoys were originally
established on the Brunswick
coast in 1937 when 25 were put
into operation. A month ago, the
Coast Guard removed 10 of the
buoys because they understood
the snags had disappeared.
Bellamy wrote a letter to The
Editor of The Pilot to complain
about the removal of the snag
markers. Congressman Alton Len
non took the matter up with the
Coast Guard and representatives
were sent to confer with Bell
amy and other fishermen. Out of
the discussion a solution was
reached.
Ferry Hearing
In Raleigh In
Another Stall
No Appreciable Progress
Made In Conference Last
Thursday With Highway
Officials And Governor
One word—delay—summed-up
the meeting between Governor
Sanford and the Brunswick coun
ty leaders in Raleigh Thursday
concerning the proposed ferry
service between Southport and
Fort Fisher as the financial road
block was thrown-up again by the
State.
Governor Sanford told the dele
gation that he would “do every
thing possible to. help obtain the
service.”
He said that the State High
way Commission, which must
authorize the ferry service, would
also look “more carefully” into
the project.
But aside from these general
statements, the governor did not
say anything definite.
Governor Sanford went on to
say that there are many prob
lems that must be solved in con
nection with the project. "There
are a lot of problems involved'
that must be worked out,” he
said.
The governor did agree with
the delegation that tourist trade
could be increased by the addi
tion of the ferry service. "We
feel that this section of the State
has great appeal to tourists and
we are going to try to get the
ferry,” he went on to say.
Governor Sanford had to leave
the meeting, which wa3 conducted
in the House chamber of the
Gapitol, before it ended. He said
that he had to attend to some
‘urgent state business.”
Chairman Merrill Evans of the
State Highway Commission told
the group of Brunswick county
leaders about the same thing that
Governor Sanford had said.
On the ferry service, which
was first proposed in 1880, Chair
man Evans said that “the project
is under serious cbnsiWSratiCTjii^^
the Commission and within a rea
sonable time I believe we can
work it out.”
Chairman Evans said that the
state does not have the money
.o establish the ferry between
Southport and Fort Fisher at the
present time.
When asked directly how long
Brunswick county would have to
wait, Chairman Evans said that
le could not promise anything.
‘But I can promise you that we
will work on it.”
Chairman Evans said that the
Sighway Commission has not
:aken any definite action on the
project.
"We are hopeful that some
;hing definite can be done within
i reasonable time limit; certain
y less than the 40 or more years
t has taken the project to pro
cess to this point,” he stated.
In conclusion, Chairman Evans
said that “the proposal will be
:onsidered formally by the High
way Commission within a year or
naybe six months”.
Lauch Faircloth of Clinton, who
serves as Brunswick's represent-*
itive of the State Highway Com,
nission, did sound encouraging
or the ferry project but said it
would take time.
"This is a job we have to do
tnd I feel that the state can af4
°rd it in the immediate futurej
. think that the project will go
hrough, but it Will take a little
ime,” Commissioner Faircloth
old the delegation.
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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, October 4,
10:58 A. M. 4:54 A. M.
11:02 P. M. 5:44 P. M.
Friday, October 5,
11:48 A. M. 5:38 A. M.
6:38 P. M.
Saturday, October 6,
0:58 A. M. 6:33 A. M.
12:49 P. M. 7:40 p. m.
Sunday, October 7,
1:02 A. M. 7:40 A. M.
1:55 P. M. 8:45 P. M.
Monday, October 8,
2:13 A. M. 8:51 A. M.
3:01 P. M. 9:47 p. M.
Tuesday, October 9,
3:22 A. M. 9:59 A. M.
4:06 P. M. 10:45 P. M.
Wednesday, October 10,
4:26 A. M. li;03 A. M.
5:05 P. M. 11:39 p, M