Most of the News! All The Time STATE PORT PILOT Volume No. 22 A Good Newspaper In A Good Community No. 14 10* Pages Today The Pilot Covers Brunswick County SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1962 5c A COPY 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, (Continued On Page 4) JkV *** Of -NEWS-1 I 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 (Continued on Page 4) 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. Continued On Page 4 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 (Continued on Page 4) I 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 < (Continued On Page Four.) ■ '' .?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 Continued Os Fags 4 4 '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. I --- 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. 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, 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