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* A Good Newspaper In A Good Community SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1963 5c A COPY Most of the News All The Time PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Sunset Beach Commissioners c< i ^ay.0r C. Gore, left, and members of the town commissioners of Sunset.Beach have been sworn in and are shown here around the council table. Oth ers, left to right, are L. H. Parramore, E. K. Proctor, mayor pro-tern, Ed Gore, Ben McDonald > a_nd Mrs. Frances Milliken, town clerk. Sunset Beach was incorporated by action of the last legislature and is North Carolina’s newest municipality. Brunswick Has Fourth Fatality In Same Location Leland Man Killed Tuesday Night In Head-On Auto mobile Accident Near Maco A Leland man was killed early Tuesday night when his auto mobile collided head-on with a vehicle attempting to pass another car in a rain storm near Maco, according to Coroner L. B. Ben . nett. Charles E. Clewis, 25 died in stanly as a result of the collision. He was the soft of Mr. and Mrs. Edmond A. Clewis of Route 4, Whiteville. George Reade French, 22 of Raleigh, was attempting to pass a car driven by Mrs. Carolyn B. Byrd of Wilmington when he collided with Clewis at 6:25 p. m. near Maco. “The rain was falling so heavy at the time I could hardly see the cars passing my automobile,” Mrs. Byrd said later. Mrs. Louise Clewis, 27, wife of the dead man, and their three children, Kenny, 5; Donna, 2; and Joanne, 8 months, are hospitalized in James Walker Memorial Hos pital in Wilmington. French was alone at the time of the accident. Continued On Page 4 ■ —.-.——.I— I Brtt/ am of •-NEWS-1 OFFICE CLOSED " The driver’s license examining office in ghallotte will, be closed Tuesday because of an in-service training school being conducted in Fayetteville that day, according to Inspector L. E. Sessoms. The of fice will be open the following Tuesday. MARKETING CARDS Flue-cured tobacco marketing cards for the 1963 crop were placed in the mail Monday, according to Manager R. L. Price of the ASCS .office in Shallotte. Any tobacco farmer who does not recive a marketing card by the first of next week should contact the Shaljottee office. AT OAK ISLAND Vesper services will be con ducted at the Oak Island Baptist Mission on Long Beach on Sunday, by Jay King, a teen-ager from the Sunset Park Baptist Church Wilmington. He is one of the lead ers of the youth activities in his church and has served as Youth Pastor in that church. In the Sun day vespers he will give his per sonal testimony. FEED GRAIN PAYMENTS The Brunswick county ASCS office began making final feed grain payments to participating farmers Monday, Manager R. L Price said. “Cards are being mail ed daily to farmers advising them when their payments will be ready,” he said. "We urge them to wail until they receive a card be fore calling for their money”, Payments are expected to total approximately $70,000. Canadian Group Purchases Land Suncot Development Corpo ration Limited Of Canada Buys SO Acres At Boiling Spring Lakes A Canadian development corp oration has purchased 50 acres of land bordering the large lake at Boiling Spring Lakes for $191,000, according to General. Manager Charles Tate. The land was purchased by the Sumcot Development Corpora tion Limited of Toronto, Ortario, and will be developed as Canadians Shores for the Canadian market. The 50 acres the Canadian corp oration purchased overlooks the Sanford Dam on the nothem shore of the big lake. The company has an option on an additional 80 acres adjoining the first tract of land. W. G. Phillips, owner of Sumcot, has one year in which to exercise the option. The $191,000 price is the largest individual sale ever made by the owners of Boiling Spring Lakes, Reeves Broadcasting Development Corporation, since the local area was opened in 1960. Canadiana Shores will be deve loped primarily for winter vacation cottages for Canadians. The com pany will sponsor five-day round trip excursion tours by express coach from Toronto to the new development beginning in Sept ember. The tour will also include visits to county towns and his torical and tourist attractions. If a homesite is purchased, the cost of the tour will be erased. Phillips plans to base his appeal to buyers on the compromise win ter climate offered in Brunswick county between the extreme cold of Canada and warm, sunny cli mate of Florida. ' \ The Reeves Corporation has al ready surveyed and cut new roads into the new area. More than 100 of the more than 600 spacious lots have been marked off. Officials of the Canadian corp oration visited Boiling Spring Lakes over the week end and closed the deal. The Sumcot Corporation operates developments in Canada’s Haliburton Highlands and at Ka warth, Canada. Dredging Will Start In Basin Southport Yacht Basin Main tenance Job Is Slated To Start Here Next Week Dredging operations are slated to begin Monday in the Southport Yacht Basin, according to City Manager C. D. Pickerrell. The dredge is expected to ar rive in Southport this weekend. The U. S. Corps of Engineers is in charge of the project. In other waterfront activity, the city is constructing a municipal pier at the extream west end of the Yacht Basin. All the pilings for the structure, which will be 260’ long and 8’ wide, have been driven and the city force is now bracing and decking the pier. The pier, which will be used for tieing up small boats, will be com pleted in the next ten days. Jit Lightning Hits In Three Areas At least three places were struck by lightning, a torrential downpour occurred in South port, and hail, wind and othej damage resulted from a suc cession of storms which hit this area during the past weekend. Lightning struck the skating rink at Shallotte, the ABC Store at Long Beach and the Bruns wick County Boarding Home. No serious injury was report ed to any person. Wind and hail did thousands of dollars of damage to crops in scattered areas of Bruns wick county on both Saturday and Sunday. In Southport the rainfall was just under 5-inches for the 24 hour period starting at 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Long Receives Local Approval Applicant For Postmaster Job At Leland Receives Endorsement of Precinct Committee Members A Leland man was unanimously recommended for the position of postmaster of Leland last week in a meeting of the Democratic Ex ecutive Committee and the pre cinct committees. Herbert Long, Jr., was recom mended for the position by Exe cutive Committee Chairman Kir by Sullivan of Southport, Mrs. Fos ter Mintz of Bolivia, committee vice-chairman, and the precinct | committees of Hoods Creek, Le land and Town Creek. The name will be sent to Re presentative Alton Lennon who re commended Long for the position of postmaster of Leland. Long served for nine years in the Navy and is presently em ployed by the Riegel Paper Com pany. George T. Rourk, acting post master of Leland, and Huston C. Fields were the other two candi dates for the job. Retired Woman Carrier Passes Mrs. Susie Zibelin Of Win nabow Died Wednesday Enroute T o Wilmington Hospital Mrs. Susie Zebelin, 69, of Winna bow died enroute to James Walker Memorial Hospital, Wednesday. She was a native of Brunswick County, the daughter of the late John L. and Mary Anna Taylor Tharp and was the widow of Charles H. Zibelin who dies in 1948. Mrs. Zibelin was a retired mail Continued On Page 4 Education For Young Drivers To Be Stressed Legislature Provides Funds With Which To Expand Driver Education Program In State Because of the new state law making driver education a pre requisite for licensing of persons between 16 and 18 years of age, Brunswick county will hire two full time instructors, according to Superintendent A. W. Taylor. The instructors, one white and one Negro, will be needed because of the predicted increase in part icipation in the driver’s education program. The legislation was enacted by the North Carolina General As sembly as part of an act con cerning provisional licenses for persons under 18 years of age. The complete law reads as follows: "Sec. 2. G. S. 20-11 is hereby amemded by adding a new para graph to the end thereof to read as follows: “The Department shall not grant the application of any min or between the ages of sixteen (16) and eighteen (18) years for an operator’s license unless such minor presents evidence of having satisfactorily completed one of the following: “(1) The driver training and safety education courses offered in the high schools as provided in G. S. 20-88.1. “(2) A driver training course prescribed and established by the Motor Vehicle Department. “(3) Any other driver training and safety education courses ap proved by the Governor’s Coordin ating Committee on Traffic Safe ty. “Sec. 2A. Upon a showing by the applicant that neither of the three course is readily available, at no cost, to said applicant, the requirement of taking such a course as a condition precedent to securing an,.application for .a driver’s license shall be waived. ‘*Sec. 3. In addition to driver Continued On Page 4 Funds Available For School Job Recent Legislature Provided Additional Appropriation Covering Assistant Super* intendent This year the Legislature ap propriated funds for the “B” Bud get of the N. C. Department of Public Instruction, and one item covered was the funds to employ 48 additional Assistant Superin tendents in the State. These assistant superintendents have been .found to be of great value in helping to carry on the full educational work of the units. Brunswick county became eli gible under this provision and William N. Williams has been em ployed to help in guidance, test- ' tag, programming and with the ■ maintenance work in the school : of Brunswick county. “These services are greatly needed since we are such a large county in area and we have only one supervisor,” Superintendent A. , W. Taylor said. “We are hoping : in the future to employ additional specialists to help the boys and girls of our county.” ......................... ..y................... Tobacco Destroyed DAMAGE Mr. and Mrs. Hoyd Lancaster are shown here as they survey dam age to their tobacco when hail hit for the second time this season last week. The crop was a 100-percent loss but was partially covered , by insurance. The Lancaster farm is on the Howell’s Point road. (Staff Photo by Allen). Damage Results From Scattered Storms In Area Kail, Wind And Excessive Rains During Weekend Hit Several Brunswick Farms Hard Blow Major damage was inflicted on many Brunswick county farms during the hail and wind storms Saturday in the Southport area and Sunday in Shallotte, according to farm Agent A, S. Knowles. winds and bail jSaf urday did as much damage as the heavy hail Sunday, Agent Knowles said after visiting the county early this week. George Lindner’s tobacco crop, which is located two miles north of Southport, was the hardest hit by the Saturday storm. Tobacco toss was expected to be 80-percent or worse. Six farms were hit in the area iust west, of Shallotte Sunday. Gene fi. Russ and the Stanley brothers were the hardest hit and most of the leaves on tobacco still in the Eield were destroyed. Wind and heavy hail fell in die Cedar Grove community and ireas between Woodbum and Leland during the weekend. The 3edar Grove community was the lardest hit where some of the fields of tobacco were stripped. Damage was fairly light to the 'rops in the Leland area and at Elah. High winds and hail were tlso reported in the County Board ng Home area. Agent Knowles estimated that at east 100 acres of tobacco suffered lamage during the past week to he extent of $50,000. “The wind uid hail ripped off an average of iight to nine leaves to a stalk of ;obacco,” Agent Knowles reported. He said another hail storm itruck last Tuesday in the Supply lolden Beach area. Damage to 15 to 18 farms was reported to 5e heavy. Continued On Page 4 TIME and TIDE Twenty-five years ago this week plans for staging the South port Shrimp Boat Demy had reached the poiht where the co operation of local citizens was necessary. The two requirements were that the derby have the cooperation of all the local shrimp boats and the backing of the local businesses. 'For the second time the dredge Comstock was forced to leave the shoals off Southport and return to her dock due to the rough weather. The dredge was usually not affected by rough seas, but officials reported that the contiuation of work was im possible. Twenty years ago this week the sale of the W.B.&S. railroad was confirmed as the previous bids were not raised before the deadline. A New York tool company was the successful bidder for the railroad and bus interest, while the real estate of the railroad was purchased by a Wilmington man and Dr. L. C. Furgus, a local physician. Reconstruction of the local Whittier’s bench was suggested by Louis Hardee, of Southport, and he backed his suggestion with a donation for the work. Because of the attraction, he thought the park should be improved, with benches of high quality construction to be provided. Fifteen years ago this week a Navy minesweeper arrived from Norfolk and proceeded directly to the Brunswick Navigation Com pany where she was to undergo conversion into a menhaden fish erman. The conversion was to take about a month. The only Continued On Page 4 n, '.-vA I Tobacco Markets Ready For Opening sit Retirement For Southport Man On July 31, Wilmer G. Kemper was retired from the Army of the United States as a Colonel, Fi nance Corps, having attained age 60 on July 12. to SouthporPin EHsctMi&t, with the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and met and married Irene W. Weeks, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Jesse Weeks. The Kempers left Southport in late 1923, and after working with the U. S. General Accounting Off ice in Washington, D. C., for sev eral years, Colonel Kemper was called to active duty with the Anti-Aircraft Artillery prior to transferred to the Finance Corps. . Upon his return to inactive duty on July 31, 1957, he and Mrs. Kem per returned to Southport, where he is now employed as Con tracting Officer at Sunny Point Army Terminal. The Kempers now reside at 214 Willis Drive in Southport. Brunswick Third With Puipwood Dollar Value For This Busi ness Last Year Was $1,139,620, According To Latest Figures Purchases of puipwood grown In North Carolina and delivered to pulp and paper mills during 1962 totaled $46,478,000, it was reported by H. J. Malsberger of Atlanta, general manger of the Southern Puipwood Conservation Association. Among the 96 counties in North Carolina where puipwood was pro duced, the three leading counties, and the value of deliveries shipp ed from each, were Beaufort, $1,822,020; Pender, $1,247,300; and Brunswick, $1,139,620. Last year’s total for the state, he added, was one per cent high er than the value of $45,838,000 recorded for 1961 deliveries. These figures were based on the results of a 12-state puipwood production survey made by the U. S. Forest Service Experiment Statious at Asheville and New Orlean, La., in cooperation with SPCA. North Carolina’s share in the production of wood raw material for the pulp and paper industry, Malsberger explained, was part of an all-time high pulp wood harvest for the South as a whole . The 12-state total for 1962 was $511,726,000, a gain of six per cent over the previous record of $484,614,000 for 1961. The South’s puipwood harvest last year was not only fifty-eight per cent of the total for the nat ion, Mr. Malsberger stressed, but was also greater than that of any single foreign country and more than in any area of comparable size in the world. He emphasized, too that figures projected from Federal Govem Coatinuea On raga 4 Early Sales Likely To Be Re tarded By Late Crop Which Still Remains To Be Harvested This Columbus County capital is getting ready once more for its “Big Show” of the year, the to bacco marketing season. The curtain is due to open on the 1963 Border Belt leaf season on Thursday. And despite fears that many persons ^sejti for ^tobacco earlier^ prospects are bright'; very' b«£hf, tor another splendid sales year in Whiteville. This will be the 53rd consecutive year that Whiteville has had an auction market for the “Golden Weed.” Everyone concerned, including men, buyers and others feel that the growing season hereabouts has brought one of the area’s better crops of tobacco, despite the fact that some difficulty was met in the planting and resetting stages. A dry spell caused some planters to have trouble getting a satisfac tory “stand” in the field, but fine seasons since this was ac complished has almost made far mers forget their earlier troubles, so excellent is the current crop of Whiteville, like all other Border Belt markets, will be anticipating its second year of loose-leaf sales as the 1963 selling season gets un derway. It is expected that both loose and tied tobacco will be sold during the early part of the season. According to George Gold, begin ning his sixth year as supervisor of sales on the Whiteville market, the local auction has grown from a small one-set of buyers market handling a small quantity of to bacco to the present-day large', three-sale market and many millions of pounds of the golden leaf. Whiteville broke all previous re cords in 1962 for poundage when some 42,609,165 pounds of tobacco was sold here. The average price was $61.28 per hundred and total money paid for tobacco in White ville ir. 1962 was $26,109,721. • Whiteville has held a dual-pur pose spot in the economic and busi ness growth of the Border Belt since the tobacco market was first established here in 1910. While to bacco has been “King” here abouts, the Columbus capital has held the enviable position due to its popularity as both a marketing and shopping center. As in previous years, the White ville market will have three sets of buyers, each set buying five and me-half hours with 6,600 baskets of tobacco offered for sale daily. Fifteen modern warehouses, all well-lighted, are operated by men with years of experience in the to bacco business and will be at the jse of farmers. Each warehouse will have a scheduled sale each day to take care of the farmer’s tobacco with out delay. With 1,300.000 square feet of floor space, farmers can be assured of adequate space to take :are of their needs. Whiteville’s warehousemen are among the most sociable in the ousiness and many are well-known ;o farmers of the area. Here are ;he local houses and their opera lors: Smith’s, Warehouse, operated by Ernest Smith, Percy McKeithan, ind J.T. Smith; Liberty Ware ( Continued On Page 4), Training Union Conference Now At Ft. Caswell Outstanding Church Leaders Participating In Program This Week At N. C. Bapt ist Assembly More than 600 Baptists are at tending the second week of Train ing Union Conferences at the North Carolina Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell this week, ac cording to Manager Fred Smith. James P. Morgan of Raleigh, who is secretary of the Training Union department of the Baptist' State Convention, is serving as di rector of the conferences. Bach morning features the class-, room study of the objectives and techniques of Training Union ac- * tivities at local churches. xrje mam aany lectures are de- - livered at 11:45 a. m. in the audi- " torium. Rev. Ben Fisher of Ra-1 leigh, director of Christian High- - er Education; Dr. Joseph Under-' .wood of Richmond, Va., associate, secretary of promotions for the ' Foreign Mission Board; Rev. D. P. I McFarland of Raleigh, secretary - of the Christian Action League; " Marse Grant, of Raleigh, editor of I the Biblical Recorder; and Dr. • Philip B. Harris, of Nashville, ' Tenn., secretary of the Training - Union department of the Baptist ■ Sunday School Board, will be the I chief speakers at the morning lec- - tures. , * Leaders of the study groups, I which are divided according to * age- levels, include adults, Mrs. I Smoot Baker of Lancaster, S. C.; - young people, Rev. Sam O’Neal * of Raleigh; intermediates, Miss I Katy Ruth Grayson of Raleigh; - juniors, Mrs. J. R. Everett of ] Rocky Mount and nursery, begin- ! ners and primaries, Miss Doris * Morgan. Leaders of the music section of • the conference .include song leader, ; Albert L e a t h of the Holloway - church of Durham; organist, Will- * is Abernathy, of Emmanual church of Raleigh; and pianist, Mrs. A. C. Ferrell of the First church of Dur (Continued OnFftge 4) 4: fCJ Retired Rural Carrier Passes Luther L. Ward Died Thurs day Afternoon In Wil mington Hospital; Funeral Services Saturday L O N G W O O D—Luther Lewis Ward, 70, former rural mail car rier, of Longwood, died Thursday afternoon in James Walker Me- i morial Hospital, Wilmington. ■ Final rites were held Saturday at ; 3 p. m. at Friendship Baptist f Church in Brunswick County by the Revs. Richard B. Williams and Earl Lanier, with burial in Ward Cemetery. Mr. Ward, a native of Brunswick , County, was the son of the late George Brooks and Earline But at his church, Friendship Baptist ler Ward. He was a retired rural mail carrier and farmer and was a member of the board of deacons and former Sunday School teacher . Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Louise Ward; a son, Airman 2C Clawson Rho Ward of the USAF, Puerto Rico; a daughter, Miss Kathy Ward of the home; a broth er, George B. Ward of Longwood; and two sisters, Mrs. Lula Long of Longwood and Mrs. D. C. Smith of Savannah, Ga. ; Active pallbearers were Bryant Smith, Davis Bland, Willie and Cortez Ward and Billy and Keith Prince. I 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, Aug. 1, 4:17 A. M. 10:50 A. M. ■5:06 P. M. 11:41 P. M. Friday, Aug. 2, 5:10 A. M. 11:39 A. M. 5:53 P. M. Saturday, Aug. 3, 5:59 A. M. 0:28 A. M. 6:39 P. M. 12:26 P. M. Sunday, Aug. 4, 6:47 A. M. 1:13 A. M. 7:22 P. M\ 1:12 P. M. • Monday, Aug. 5, ' j 8:49 P. M. ’ 2:42 P. M. Wednesday, Aug. 7, 7:32 A. M. 1:56 A. M. 8:05 P. M. 1:57 P. M. Tuesday, Aug. 6, 8:17 A. M. 2:38 A. M. 9:03 A. M. 9:32 P. M.
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