The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
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STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Volume No. 23
No. 10
10-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1963
5e A COPY
Most of the News
All The Time
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Announce List
Of Nominations
For ASC Ballot
Eligible Voters Will Receive
Ballot Through Mail Next
Week; Have Ten Days To
Return
Tlie Brunswick ASC County and
Community Committees have met
and named a list of candidates for
each of the county’s six agricultu
ral communities to run for elec
tion as committeemen, according
to ASCS Manager Ralph L. Price.
The man receiving the highest
number of votes will be chairman
of the township committee and de
legate to the county convention
which will be held on September 20
to elect a County Committee. The
second high man in each commun
ity will be vice-chairman and first
alternate delegate and the third
high man will be regular mem
ber and second alternate delegate
to the county convention. The next
two highest men will become first
and second alternates to the com
munity committee.
Ballots will be mailed to every
eligible voter on record on Sept
ember 3. Anyone not receiving a
ballot should call or visit the ASCS
Office in Shallotte. Ballotts must
be returned to the ASCS Office in
Shallotte or post marked by not
later than September 13.
Ballots will be tabulated publicly
by the County Committee at the
ASCS Office in Shallotte on Sept
ember 17, beginning at 9 a. m.
Any questions on eligibility to
vote and hold office, or on the
election procedure, will be settled
by the County Committee subject
to appeal ot the State Committee.
The County Convention will con
vene at 9 a. m. on September 20
at the Shallotte office for
the purpose of naming a County
Committee to serve next year. All
committeemen will take office on
October 1, and serve for one year
or until their successors have been
elected and qualified.
All persons fsfr which petitions
were received have been placed on
’‘'‘ "the ballot. The final fist of nomi*
. nees by communities are as fol
low: Lockwoods Folly, Glen Car
penter, W. McKinley Hewett, Carl
Holden, Neal Holden, Aldreth
Phelps and Edwin Sellers; North
west, Elmer Aycock, Paul Brown,
H. O. Peterson, Jr., George Skip
< per, John Smith and Refus Stewart;
Smithville, J. A. Chatman, Alvin
Clemmons, Willie Clemmons, Ro
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BEGIN RECTORY
Construction has started on the
new Episcopal rectory located in
Deepwater Heights, Southport.
LIONS GOVERNOR COMING
District Governor Darrel Nance
of Havelock will visit the South
port Lions Club for its meeting
on September 5.
ON STAFF
Dr. Norman M. Homstein of
Southport has been appointed to
the staff of the Cape Fear Mem
orial Hospital in Wilmington. !
MOTHER DIES
Mrs. Lillian E. Kemper, mother
of Col. Wilbur G. Kemper of South
port, died Thursday in Washington,
D. C. Funeral services were held
Monday.
LAND SAILFISH
Capt. Earl Hancock and party
from Gastortia, fishing Saturday
aboard the Miss Creola out of
Southport, landed a 6-9 sailfish.
E. H. Bradley was the lucky fish
erman.
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
Labor Day will be generally ob
served here as a holiday. The
schools will be closed for the day
as will public offices, the banks
and savings and loan and city and
county offices.
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
With 30 new enrollees Monday,
more than 617 students are at
tending Southport High School this
year, according to Principal Wil
lard Cox. He reported 148 high
school students and 317 elemen
tary and junior high pupils. The
first grade has an enrollment of
63 students this year.
HOMECOMING DAY
The Shiloh Methodist Church,
which is located on Highway 87
near Maco, will observe Home
coming Day Sunday beginning at
11 a. m., according to Rev. Allen
Richardson. Rev. Clarence L. War
ren will be the guest speaker. A
covered dish luncheon will be held
In the Fellowship Hall of the church
immediately foUowing the worship
services.
Brunswick Marker 1
CEREMONY—One of the. highlights of. the com
memorative program at Brunswick Town on Sunday,
September 8, will be the donation of the Alfred Moore
marker by. members of the Pender County Bar Asso
ciation. Here Clifton Blue, Speaker of the House of Re
presentatives, is shown, reading the inscription with
R. V. Asbury, costumed guide,' looking' on.
To Commemorate 3
Dr. E. Lawrence Lee Will
Be Principal Speaker For
Tercentenary Observance
On September 8
On September 8 at 2 p. m. a pro
gram will be held at the ruins of
St. Philips Church in Brunswick
Town which will commemorate the
capture of the town by the Spanish
in 1748. The principal speaker will
be Dr. E. Lawrence Lee, Jr., pro
fessor of history at the Citadel, and
the person who was instrumental
in the creation of Brunswick Town
State Historic Site. Introducing
Dr. Lee will be J. Lawrence Sprunt,
donor of the land on which the site
is located.
Music for the event will be colo
nial ballads sung by Miss Julia
Ribet, administrative assistant for
the Carolina Charter Tercentenary
Commission.
Presentation of the Alfred Moore
Tomb marker at Brunswick Town
will be made by the Moore County
Bar Association and the Alfred
Moore Chapter of the Daughters,
of the American Revolution.
Also being presented are por
traits of William Henry Hill and
Thomas Hill, residents of Bruns
wick, by St. Memin. These por
traits are being presented by Tho
mas Hill Duffy of Richmond, Vir
ginia^ as a gift to the Brunswick
Town project. ,
Mrs. Douglas Marshall of Char
lotte will present documents deal
ing with the Hill family of Bruns
wick Town taken from the South
well Bible.
The program is being sponsored
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Mrs. Cranmer
Passes At Home
Widow Of Late Judge E. H.
Cranmer Died Following
Extended Illness; Funeral
Services Tuesday
Mrs. Mary Pearce Cranmer, 85,
died at her home in Southport,
Sunday morning after an extended
illness.
She was the widow of the late
Superior Court Judge Edward H.
Cranmer of Southport.
The deceased had been active in
religious, civic and social affairs of
this community and at one time
served as a member of the local
committee for Southport High
School.
Final rites were held Tuesday at
i p. m. from Trinity Methodist
Church, of which she was a mem
ber, by her pastor, the Rev. Charles
H. Lancaster, assisted by the Rev.
L. D. Hayman. Burial followed in
Old Southport Cemetery.
Survivors include two sons,
lames Pearce Cranmer of Clifton j
Forge, Va. and Morris . Cranmer I
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Appointed
WILLIAM A. KOPP, JR.
Brunswick Boy
Federal Clerk
William. A. , Kopp, Jr.,
Named Chief Deputy Of
Eastern District Of U. S.
Federal Court
Samuel A. Howard. Clerk of the
United States District Court for
the Eastern District of North Caro
lina, has announced the appoint
ment of William Albert Kopp, Jr.,
of Bolivia as Chief Deputy Clerk
of the Court to succeed Leon F.
j Woodruff who recently resigned to
go into business for himself.
Kopp is. 25 years of age and is
single. He is a graduate of New
Hanover High School, Wilmington,
aind attended both Wilmington Jun
ior College and East Carolina Col
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Bookmobile To
Undergo Repair
No Routes Will Be Served
During First Week In Sep.
tember While Vehicle Is
Repaired
The Brunswick County Bookmo
bile will be off the road the week
beginning September 2 to undergo
repairs and repainting.
Routes scheduled for this period
will be covered the following week,
beginning September 9, and in
clude Northwest, Leland and Hick
man’s Crossroads.
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Equity Refund
Payments Being
Mailed Members
Atlantic Telephone Member
ship Cooperative Officials
Placing All Members On
Same Basis
Harry L Mints, president of the
Atlantic Telephone Membership
cooperative has announced that
plans to refund the final equity ba
lance of $30 each due approximate
ly 980 members of the cooperative.
“Checks will be mailed out with
in the next few days to all those
members who'originally paid a
membership deposit of $50," Mintz
said. “This, along with an earlier
refund of $10 each paid in 1961 will
complete the equity refund pro
gram.”
The present equity refund will
amount to approximately $26,500
and will leave every member on
an equal basis with a $10 member
ship fee.
“The corporation owes a great
debt of gratitude to all those peo
ple who invested $50 in order to
bring telephone service to every
section of Brunswick county. With
out their financial support and ex
pression of confidence, telephone
service still would not be available
in all areas of the county.
“The board of directors have
been anxious to effect this refund
as soon as possible and we are
particularly pleased that we are
able to refund the full amount due
at this time.”
The Atlantic Telephone Member
ship Corporation currently has a
’membership of slightly over 2,000
and is furnishing service to almost
that many customers.
New Teachers On
. Bolivia Faculty
All . Positions Filled Prior To
Opening Of School Mon.
,. day For Fall Term; Davis
““ ■Is New' Principal f
Five new teachers were among
the 15 faculty members at Bolivia
High School who greeted 379 stu
dents Monday, according to Prin
cipal Thomas L. Davis. '
The new teachers include Miss
Margaret Hursey, fifth grade; Mrs.
Mildred D. Trowbridge, English;
Miss Vera T. Johnson, science and
math; Foster Prevatt, commer
cial studies; and Sidney C. Mallory,
social studies.
This is the first year for Davis
as principal of the Bolivia 3chool.
He was recently elected to re
place J. P. Snipes who has ac
cepted a position as principal of
Chowan County High School. A
native of Davis, Principal Davis
has served as commercial in
structor at' the Brunswick county
school for the past two years.
Miss Hursey, who is from Ocean
Drive, S. C., was the public music
teacher for the Charlotte school
system last year. .Mrs. Trowbridge,
a native of Hampsted, was an Eng
lish instructor at Glenn Bum’s
Senior High School in Maryland
last year. Miss Johnson, l who is
from Herdford, is a 1963 graduate
of Meredith College in Ealeigh.
Prevatte, who is a 1963 graduate
of Campbell College, is from Wil
mington. Mallory was a teacher in
his home town of Williamston last
year.,
Returning members of the Boli
via faculty include Mrs. Shirley
Redwine, first grade; Mrs. Beulah
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Diving Class At Clear Pond
iu At,ij —Members of the SCUBA Diving Class are shown at Clear Pond hear
Southport Monday as the acqua lungs are being filled with oxygen, preparatory to
diving;. Shown suited up are Clay Jordan, Ormond Leggett and Carl Watkins. Ope
rating the machine are Cecil Morns and-George Townsend, instructors,' (Staff Photo'
by Allen)
County Jaycees
In Joint Meeting
To Talk Industry
Coast Guard Boat
Here Temporarily
Representatives From Board
Of Conservation And De-.
velopment Will Meet
With Group. Thursday
Night _
Sixty of Brunswick County’s
leading Jaycees are expected to
participate in an exploratory irw
dustry meeting in Shallotte Thurs
day night at 7:30 at Shallotte Re
staurant. . ~ —
Realizing the necessity of get
ting started on firm foundations,
•officials of the four clubs have in-,
vited the State’s Division of Com
merce and Industry to send some-,
one to explain various methods of
operation. Jim Hinkle, C&I ad
ministrator, has designated the di
vision’s financial consultant, W. W.
Barnes, who owns a home op Yau
pon Beach; and Ted Davis, deve
lopment representative of the Com
munity and Industrial Services
Section to represent C&I. '
Barnes, wno acts xn an advisory
capacity to industries seeking to
set up new plants, expand, or es
tablish affiliated units, has been
most successful in aiding many
plants secure financial assistance.
Through his efforts for the State
agency, several million dollars in
private funds have been made a
vailable for private industrial de
velopment. He will outline the
various methods of capitalization
for development groups, explain
methods of financing industry, cite
specific instances of successful ex
pansion and give examples of a
few of the pitfalls to be avoided.
I Davis, with a sizeable background
of organizational, Chamber of Com
merce, public relations and indus
trial development experience, will
show the various types of organ
izations, list advantages of each,
and give information on the suc
j cess of each type. Davis has indi
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TIME and TIDE
Twenty-five years ago this week members of the Frying Pan
lightship crew had been passing „the time by harpooning fish
from their anchored craft 40 miles off Cape Fear. One of the
sailors had speared 17 lagge barracuda during the previous week.
Having a dull atmosphere on the lonely ocean, plans wex-e being
made for Southport boats to leave bundles of magazines and cur
rent newspapers as they passed the lughtship on fishing trips.
Gulf stream fishing was at an all time high; the annual
meeting of the district postmasters was being held at Ft.
Caswell.
Twenty years ago thU week a Brunswick County shrimp
boat was saved when firemen chopped a hole in the hull, flooded
the craft, and allowed it to sink. The only damage was to the
house. A brand new engine was saved from fire, but now must
be raised from the bottom. *
A five foot long white pine plank was received as. a gift to.
the Whittier’s bench on the Southport waterfront. The package
was partially stuck in Bill Keziah’s mail box and was to be used
to whittle on by the Whittier’s Park patrons.
Fifteen years ago this week a huge Sawfish, 14 feet long
and weighing an estimated 1600 pounds, was caught in one of
large nets on the Imperial III, a member of the W. S. Wells fish
ing fleet.
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Speaker
TED DAVIS
Makes Report On
Repair Work
Board Of Education Em
ployees Have Been Busy
On School Projects During
Summer Months .
Maintenance and repair work
are being preformed at all public
schools in Brunswick county dur
ing the summer vacation period,
according to Assistant Superin
tendent William N. Williams.
The library annex and the shop
at BCT have been painted on the
inside. The band room roof and in
sides were also painted.' The cafe
teria was re-roofed while the
Gym was painted inside and out.
In -the main building, all inside
woodwork was trimmed while the
window facings and gutters were
repaired..
In the main building at Bolivia,
the windows were reputtied and
the outside woodwork painted.- Ten
clasrooms have been repainted. A
new heating plant is under con
struction and will be ready by Oct
obre. The agriculture building
and cafeteria have been painted
on the outside. The floor of the gym
has been sanded and refinished.
All classrooms and the audito
rium have been painted the floors
sanded at the Cedar Grove school.
The front porch was also painted.
In the main building at Leland,
13 classrooms were painted. The
floors were sanded in 11 rooms and
a new floor was installed in an
other room. All the woodwork has
been painted and the windows re
puttied. Two sections will be added
to the boiler to bring the heating
facility up to maximum capacity.
The shop and cafeteria are to
be painted.
The primary building at Lin
coln was moved to the rear of the
main building and painted inside
and out. The shop was painted on
the outside as well was one class
room. In the high school building,
eight rooms were painted.
Longwood school will be painted
on the inside and the windows
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'Boat Sent Here 'To Replace
Larger Vessel While. It
Is On Temporary Duty In
Florida
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A citizen’s petition has Resulted
in Congressman Alton Lennprr hav
ing the U. S. Coast Guard assign
another patrol, boat to ths.-Sputlv,
port area while CG-65303 is on tem
porary duty in Florida.
The new patrol boat arrived here
last Sunday and is now patrolling
the area waters. The 82-foot boat
is a temporary replacement for the
departed CG-95303, which'was 95
feet in length.
“The new vessel should provide
the area with protection equal to
that of the 95-footer”, Admiral E.
J. Roland, commandant of the
U. S. Coast Guard, said.
The original Southport-based
boat will return here about Octo
ber 31 unless the Florida Cuban
watch is discontinued earlier, he
said. 1 ; ’ ,
When the CG-95303 left South
port about one month ago for duty
in Florida, Mrs. Thomas H. Watts
of Southport became concerned.
“The Coast Guard boats have
seldom had to go on a rescue mis
sion here,” she said, “but it was
a good feeling to have it around.”
Mrs. Watts enlisted the aid of
Mrs. Glenn Trunnell and they cir
culated a petition among the com
mercial fishing interests of South
port. *
The petition, which was signed
by 18 • owners of charter boats,
shrimp trawlers and commercial
boats, ‘ was sent to Congressman
Lennon who immediately contacted
Coast Guard authorities about the
matter. He wanted to know why
such a large amount of water was
being left unpatrolled;
Congressman Lennon was in
formed that following an.attack by
a Cuban exile group on a Soviet
vessel in a Cuban port earlier this
year, a series of conferences'were
held to establish U. S. policy con
cerning the matter. The Coast
Guard, Customs and INS were di
rected to take every step necessary
to insure that raids were not
launched from U. S. territory for
the next six months.
The Coast Guard was assigned
the duty instead of the Navy be
cause it was a law enforcement
problem. “Cuban hit-and-run
Raiders are in violation of the laws
of the United States over which
the Coast Guard has cognizance
and enforcement authority," Com
mandant Roland said.
Commandant Roland was In
structed to send six patrol boats
to the Miami area from the East
and Gulf Coast districts. He based
his assignments for special duty
on the number of boats available,
types, numbers and deployment of
other vessels, facilities and work
load. . \
The Portsmouth District com
mand, which the Southport boat
is under, selected boats from Oc
racoke and Norfolk for the Flori
da duty and they departed on
April 2.
When it became apparent that
the operation would continue for
an extended period of time, as
signments were made for relief
duty. The Coast Guard decided to
establish a rotation system for the
patrol boats from their home ports
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SCUBA Diving
Class Is Held
Here This Week
Members Of Volunteer Fire
Departments Participate
In Underwater Training
Sessions
Courses In underwater search *
and rescue were conducted Sun
day and Monday at Clear Pond for
Brunswick county volunteer fire- ,
men to help them master this im
portant art for a coastal area.
The courses, which were a joint
training operation between South
port and Long Beach Volunteer ”
Fire Departments, were conducted
by the Industrial Education Center"
in Raleigh. Instructors were George
Townsend and Cecil Morris, both
of Jacksonville.
Instructor Townsend said that
C. L. Sides of Long Beach was in
strumental in having the courses
brought to Brunswick county. Sides
observed a similar course in Wil
son and brought the idea to. the
departments here.
•, After spending Sunday learning
the techniques of skin diving, Mon
day was devoted to underwater o
perations. This consisted of work
■with self contained underwater
breathing apparatus and is known
as SCUBA. Each man was
equipped with a snorkle, vest float,
wet suit, weight belts, mask, flip*
pers and an aqua-lung.
The students put on full diving
equipment and searched for
objects placed on the bottom of the
pond by the instructors. The wa
ters were deliberately muddied so
the men would have to search with
their hands instead of their eyes.
“You won’t find many bodies in
clear water”, Townsend said.
After completing the course
Southport Fire Chief Ormond Leg- «{•
gett and Long Beach Chief Roy
Tuttle announced that they plan to
purchase equipment for two men
each. 'v
Men receiving instruction during
two day course besides Chiefs Leg- _
gett and Tuttle included John H.
i Johnson, J. C. Miller and Horace
Sellers,' all of Southport; and Clay ‘“V
Jordan, Myron Helms, Carl Wat
kins and Sides, all of Long Beach.
Work Completed ft
On Basin Dock 1
City Employees Have Been
Erecting Municipal Pier
In Southport Yacht Basin
For Transit Use
The city of Southport has con.
structed a municipal pier in the
Southport Yacht Basin and will
provide rental slips for transit
craft and local boats, according
to City Manager C. D. Pickerell.
The eight feet wide pier which
extends 260-feet from the existing
bulkheads was built a the ex
treme western edge of the yacht
basin by the city.
The pier was constructed so the
yacht basin could be placed under
the maintenance control of the
Corps of Engineers. The corps does
not maintain privately owned wa
terways.
The rental rates for the slips
will be established at the Septem
ber meeting of the Southport Board
of Aldermen. The new facility will
provide accomodations for between
20 and 25 small craft.
City Manager Pickerell said
the cost of the municipal pier was
a little less than $2,000, not in
cluding labor. The decking was ac
quired from Sunny Point Army
Terminal and Lewis Hardee,
Southport shrimp dealer, donated
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Tide Table f
Following' Is the tide %
table for Southport during
the week. These hours are i, : *
approximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
• Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, August 29,
2:40 A. M. 9:17 A. M.
3:34 P. M. 10:13 P. M.
Friday, August 30,
3:30 A. M. 10:14 A. M.
4:28 P. M. 11:07 P. M.
Saturday, August 31,
4:37 A. M. 11:09 A. M.
5:19 P. M. 11:57 P. M.
Sunday, September 1,
5:30 A. M. 12:00 A. M. '
6:08 P. M.
Monday, September 2,
3:20 A. M. 0:43 A. M.
6:55 P. M. 12:49 P. M.
Tuesday, September 8,
7:09 A. M. 1:27 A. M.
7:41 P. M. 1:37 P. M.
Wednesday, September 4,
7:56 A. M. 2:11 A. M.
8:26 P. M. 2:24 P. M.