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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT Most of the News All The Time Volume No. 23 No. 15 12-Pages Today A Good Newspaper In A Good Community SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1963 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Bridge At Long Beach «A«. «.«.• • V■yys>'z-\-• • ryw^.w ** -~ ' /v? V-y- % SJWg* x— >:•&* ‘vjj* «w^w»AA!.^ COMPLETED—This is the new bridge crossing Davis Creek between the Tran quil Harbour section and the strand at Long Beach. The street has been paved and now affords hard surface travel through both sections. (Staff Photo by Allen) Border Tobacco Markets Nearing End Of Season Friday Is Holiday For Mar ket As Buyers Get Chance To Catch Up On Drying Process County tobacco markets will observe the second of two scheduled holidays Friday. The first all-day holiday came on Wednesday of last week. The holidays were called at the request of buying comp anies that said congested redrying facilites would make them curtail buying if relief Were not afforded. T'ne Fair Bluff market wilt '" close Thursday of this week and thus will end its season before the holiday. Closing dates for the Chadboum and Tabor City, one buyer mar kets, and the Whiteville mar ket have not been announced. Most observers say that the Tabor City and Chadboum market will close next week and it is possible for the Whiteville market to also close at the end of the week. ■ The Whiteville market is not expected to remain open after Oct. 15. -Warehouse floors are full today. This may be the last full day of sales this season. For the remainder of this week the local market is al lowed to sell 5,200 baskets each day with two full sets Continued On Page 4 I MrUf M. Of HVEWSH CHURCH SUPPER Members of the WSCS of Trinity Methodist Church will sponsor a turkey supper in the recreation hall of the church on the evening Of Thursday, October 10. OYSTER ROAST Sharon Methodist Church will sponsor an oyster roast Saturday at W. E. Bellamy’s Store at Boones Neck between 5 p. m. and 8:30 p. m. with proceeds going to the building fund. | BENEFIT BARBECUE A pit cooked barbecue supper will be served buffet-styled in the Fell owship Hall of the Zion Methodist Church ^Saturday beginning ut 6:30 p. m. Homemade cakes and pies will also be on sale. Proceeds will go to the church building fund. PHELPS NOMINATED Kenneth Phelps, a senior at Southport High school and son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Phelps, has been nominated for a Morehead Scholarship. The nomination was approved by the faculty this week. “Phelps is exceptionally well qua lified candidate for this honor,” Principal Willard Cox said. COMMISSIONER COMING I The proposed Southport-Fort Fis her ferry will be among the sub jects discussed by District High way Commissioner Lauch Fair cloth of Clinton at a meeting of the Southport Junior Chamber of Commerce at the Tranquil Harbor Restaurant Tuesday night begin ning at 7:30 o'clock. President G. W. Fisher announded that mem bers of the Carolina Beach Jaycee chapter have been invited to at tend the important meeting. Progress Report At Phone Meeting Both President Harry L.* Mintz, Jr., And Manager Earl Bellamy Have Favor able Figures To Offer Coop Members A call to prepare for more strug gles between private power com panies and rural co-ops was sound ed by Robert W. Scott at the Sixth Annual meeting of the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation at Shallotte Thursday night. Scott, Master of the State Grange, who served as chairman of the low cost power committee, led- the fight to prese»v»*4he co ops during the 1963 General As sembly. “This was just one inning of a long ball game that will not be j called because of darkness,” he j said. But the co-ops will be fight-! ing to save their facilities. “We will be back again, again and again,” he promised. Scott, who owns a farm at Haw River served by private com panies, is a strong backer of rural co-ops. Why? “I believe in the cooperative movement because I have seen it work. The private companies would not serve you, so you organized your own company in the true spirit of the American tradition,” he declared. Scott said the struggle to pre serve the co-ops will not be easy in the days ahead. Rural people will have less and less influence as the urban areas grow in popu lation. “Rural people will have to resolve some of their internal dif ferences and learn to work to gether and with others to achieve some part of their needs and goals,” he warned. As for the co-op members, Scott urged more participation in the affairs of local, state and national governments. “Rural people parti cularly must get out and partici pate in the community and political activities to a much greater extent than in the past,” he said. “It is no trouble at all to go to the beauty shop or store or other gathering spot to gossip and growl about the various activities of government • or community or ganizations. A check on the growl ers and gripers would show half or more don’t bother to go to the polls and vote. It’s too much trouble. “I have no respect for those who grumble about current happenings but who didn’t get out and vote or take part in community activi ties when the decisions were be ing made,” he said. “As long as you participate in the affairs of government on all levels, I have no fear that we will ever lose our freedom,” he said in conclusion. Scott, who was introduced by Ralph King, agricultural teacher at Waccamaw High School and mem ber of the Grange, called his trip to Brunswick county a sentimental one. He said his father, the late Governor W. Kerr Scott, spoke on the Shallotte High School stage 33 years ago as Master of the Grange. Seven directors were re-elected to the board for the first time on a staggered term basis. Harry L. Mintz and Elbert L. Pigott, both of Shallotte, and Joe C. Stanaland of Ash were elected to three year terms; Roddie R. Bennett of Free land and H. Foster Mintz of Bo livia, for two years; and A. P. Henry, Jr. of Winnabow, and A. Wilson Arnold of Supply to one year terms. The election was con ducted by co-op attorney Kirby Sullivan of Southport. , (Continued On Page 4). Attendance In Country Climbs More than 5,667 students are attending schools .in Bruns wick county this year, accord ing to Superintendent A. 'W. Taylor. Enrollment figures at the 11 schools in the county in ludec Bolivia, 266 elementary, 138 high school; Leland, 444 and 145; Shallotte, 834 .and 355; Southport, 374 and 147; - Waccamaw, 352 and 149; BCT, 324 and 197; Cedar Grove, 174; Lincoln 559 and 208; Longwood 157; Piney Grove 103; and Union, 452 and 290. Announce List Of Bus Drivers ■ Board Of Education Gives Names Of Regular Driv ers And Their Substitutes For This Year A list of bus drivers for Bruns wick county schools was approved by the Board of Education Tuesday night. The bus drivers at the schools include: Waccamaw: Martha Russ, Wayne. Evans, Billy Ingram, Roger Mil ligan, J. T. Simmons, Melton Hughes, Herbie Ward, Bryan Smith and Cecil Evans. Substitutes: Wil liam Long, Diana Ward, Ronald Hughes, Carver Wilson, Earl Smith, James Caine, Allen Russ,. Micheal M a n k i n and Carolyn Hughes. ’ Shallotte: Johnny Benton, Ear lene Sellers, Barry Vamum, Jim my Register, Gloria Lenard, George Davis, Jerome Lewis, Lin da Brown, Danny Hickman, Linda Clemmons, Larry Hewett, Mike Williams, William Roberts, Char lene Stanley, Joe Norton, Lois Clemmons ‘ and Sam Crawford. Substitutes: Joyce Long, Gay Wil liams, Elaine Stanley, Ronald Hewett, Dennis Fullwood, Sharon Bradsher, Howard Hughes, Andy Love and Wiley Hewett. Bolivia: Albert Henry, James Lamm, Kenny Edwards, Wm. A. | Hickman, Dianne Willetts, Paul j McDowell, Robert Kye and Roy Rogers. Substitutes: Carolyn Se graves, Ronnie Sellers and Charles Reynolds. Southport: Stacy Sellers, Jerry Spencer, Richard Pickett and Mike Lee. Substitutes: Sonny Small, Bill Faulk, Jerry Swain and Johnnie L. Hewett. . Leland: Nina Benton, Simon Shew, Jimmy Phelps, Russell Thompson, Reggie Thompson, Rog er Williamson, Thurman Sullivan and Morgan Medlin. Substitutes: David Smith and Pat Barber. B. C. T., Hubert Reaves, Hugh Bernard, Kenneth Clark, George Bellamy, John Simmons and Jim mie Lewis. Substitutes: Arnold Bryant and Maybelle Heweitte. Union: Henry Greene, Leonard Smith, Ezell Brown, Cassie Stan ley, , Lynn Grissett Oliver Gallo way, Cleo Hankins, Linward Stan ley, Bennie Marlowe, Videll Butler and Samuel Bowens. - Lincoln: Emma Bell, Emmual Parrish, Thomas Bellamy, Eunice Harrison, Annie Sloan, Otis Gibbs, Jenny Harrison, Edna Beattyi Sherman Davis, Charles Waddell and Gloria Bullard. Application For Loan For School Is Turned Down ■KUSyfaMilMik Board Of Education Con siders This And Other Problems A t Meeting Tuesday Night In South port Members of the Brunswick County Board of Education learn ed Tuesday night that their ap plication for a loan from the State Literary Fund had • been turned down. A spokeman for the board said that is was based upon a tech nicality, but that a serious obst acle has been placed In the path of obtaining funds right away for needed construction. Plans are underway to work out some com promise, since Brunswick county appears to have fulfilled its qualifying obligation. After hearing a report concern ing the deterioration of the casing for the well at Shallotte High School, the board decided to have a new well dug at the school as soon as possible. The board decided to look into the possibility of securing addi tional classrooms for Southport High School. It was pointed out that the lack of space is a major problem at the school. The Board voted unanimously to raise the tuition charged to out of- county students from $75 to $85. This will bring the tuition tuition charge in line with other counties in the state. Members of the > Piney Grove Development Committee appeared before the board requesting to pur chase the old Piney Grove School which the board decided to sell at the last meeting. Attorney Sulli van told the representatives that state law requires the board to sell the building by bids only. He in vited the committee to submit a bid at the proper time. D. S. Ganey of Leland was ap pointed to the position of attend ance counselor for Brunswick coun ty*-He is to see that sill school aged children attend school. Superintendent A. W. Taylor re ported that all sectional boilers in the schools of Brunswick county have been taken down and repaired. New equipment has been added when needed, he said. Two new sections of new equipment have been added to the Shallotte facil ity. All worn-out parts in the Le land boiler have been replaced. A Continued On Page 5 New Teacher At Southport School Additional High School Fa culty Member Granted On Basis Of Attendance During First Month Because of the increased enroll ment at Southport high school this year, one new teacher will be as signed to the school within the next week, Principal Willard Cox an nounced Tuesday. The new teacher, who will serve in the high school, will help re lieve the pupil load from the other instructors. The increased enroll ment resulted when 33 new stu dents entered the school in August. Southport now has an enrollment of 374 students in the elementary section and 147 in high school. Principal Cox announced that Continued On Page 6 SHELLS—Officers and members of the North Carolina Shell Club are shown here as they inspect specimen shells on display in the Brunswick County Courtroom at Southport Friday afternoon. They include, from left to right, Mrs. James Davis of Durham, Dr. Jack Upchurch of Apex, Mrs. Kendall Bruno of Southport, Mrs. Ruth Dixon of Durham, Mrs. Graham Bell of Fayetteville, Mrs. R. C. McLain of Eagle Springs, Mrs. J. P. Jordan of Clinton, and President C. C. Withrow of Charlotte. Shell Club Holds Fall Meeting In Southport Area Headquarters F o r N. C. Shell Club Set Up In Court House With Side Trip Saturday To Bald Head Island More than 78 persons attended the fall meeting of the North Caro lina Shell Club in Southport Fri day and Saturday. The highlight of the meeting was an expedition to Bald Head Island Saturd^fc mooting. Some 53 persons rods'"smitl sMtta -«tter shallow draft party boats to the Brunswick island where they spent over four hours gathering shells. Capt. Ray Stubbs was the com modore of the small flotilla that carried Shell Club members to and from the island. Classes of shells were discussed Friday night by Dr. John T. Fer guson, chairman of the Depart ment of Physiology at the Univer sity of North Carolina medical School. Most of his talk was re lated to the cultured pearl and the button industry. t The general classification for the talk was univalves, and Dr. McPherson spoke at some length on wenteltraps, or staircase shells. He spoke of the muscle shell Continued On Page 5 Exhibit Coming Famous “Artists And Fish ermen” Paintings To Be Exhibited I n Brunswick County “Artists and Fishermen”, a tra veling exhibit from the Ford Times Collection of American Art, will be shown during the month of October in Southport and Long Beach. Continued on Page 5 Traveling TIME and TIDE It was October 1, 1958, and Hurricane Helene was the main news of the week. She lashed Brunswick from one end to the other Saturday and left hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property damage. Governor Luther H. Hodges had requested President Dwight D. Eisenhower to declare Brunswick a disaster area. — ‘ The Southport school was closed because of falling plaster that resulted from the storm. More than 300 persons had applied for disaster aid from the Red Cross. The wedding of Miss Carol Fillingin and Coast Guardsman Sperry Culler was delayed until Sunday because of the hurricane. It . was September 30, 1953, and officials of Big Time Dog Pood were in Brunswick investigating the possibility of establish ' tag a canning plant here. The Grand Jury called attention to the need of enlarging the office space of the Register of Deeds and for safe storage of the tax records. v ' Lieutenant Joel L. Moore, Jr., returned to Southport after receiving the Bronze Star during the Korean War. J. A. Gilbert and A. O Trunnell were ordained deacons in the Southport Bap tist church. Antioch, Mt. Pisgah, Beulah and Prospect Baptist churches were holding revival services. • It was September 29, 1948, and a story concerning the health record of the R. W. Davis family was featured. Since they were married 62 years ago, none of their descendents had died. Miss Beth Grimes reported that more than 100 books had been dona,t (Continued on Pace 4) I Committee Plans # Economic Study | Shallotte Gets Radio Station ! The Shallotte Broadcasting Com pany of Shallotte has been notified j by the Federal Communication I Commission that license has been I granted to operate a 500 watt ra dio station there. R. D. White, Jr., Auburn Dutton aritf mrj MilliKtsft:«*S therSrtflWf* holders. The studio and transmitter will be located in Shallott eand the sta j tion will operate during daylight hours. Youth Goes On Auto Theft Jag Fifteen-Year-Old New York Boy Finally Lodged In Jail Following Sixth Auto Larceny A 15-year-old New York boy who stole six automobiles was re captured late Tuesday after he had escaped from the Brunswick Coun ty jail at Southport. After he stole the sixth car, the youth, who was not identified be cause of his age, was captured and taken to the jail in Southport. There -he overpowered the jailer and escaped when he stole another car. When the car gave out of gas on a dirt road near Exum, the youth hid in the woods. A motorist reported to the State Highway Patrol about the abandoned car and officials arrested him again. He was taken to the Southport jail late Tuesday night where an extra effort was taken to keep him in custody. The boy originally left New York in a stolen car which he aban doned for another stolen car in Maryland as he attempted to make his way to Florida. He stole an other car in Wilmington which he wrecked near Shallotte where he stole still another car. When he wrecked the Shallotte car, law enforcement officials al most captured him at a Bruns wick county farm, but just, as they were closing in, he stole another car which he also wrecked. This time he was captured and taken to the Southport jail where he made his escape Tuesday afternoon. Draw Jury List For Court Term Superior Court Will Con. vene On October 21 For Trial Of Civil Cases In Brunswick County County residents were selected for jury duty during the civil term of Brunswick County Superior Court the week of October 21 at a meeting of the board of commis sioners last week, according to Register of Deeds Durwood Clark. Residents selected include: P. A. Bellamy, Almond Cheers, Rufus C. Arnold, Dillion Ward, John Earl Todd, J. D. Gore and V. W. Beck all of Shallotte. E ,H. Hayes, Floyd Sellers, Wil Continued From Page 5 * Effort Will Be Made To De termine Needs Of Bruns wick In Order To Make Recommendations For De velopment I Over seventy key leaders repre senting most communities in Bruns wick County met Wednesday night at Extension Service Building in Supply to discuss ways and means of developing potential economic resources. Representatives from j several federal and state agencies i discussed with the leaders the va | rious types of services their organ ! ization could render in the county economic picture. John Donnelly with the N. C. Department of Conservation and Development of Raleigh, gave a run down on how his department could assist counties and com munities in making surveys of resources and participate in the expense of making an economic study and development. Olin P. Weam of Charlotte, who is with Small Business Administration, told the assembled leaders how they could participate in the economic development of a community. Marion W. Holland, District F. H. A. Supervisor of Goldsboro, spoke for several federal agencies. His own agency, Farmers Home Administration, makes loans to in dividual farmers or non-profit or ganizations to develop recreation facilities. Holland spoke for Com munity Facilities Administration and pointed out how depressed com munities had received grants and loans to develop water and sewage systems. Holland said as long as the public works administration was available to counties qualify ing they could make loans and grants for certain projects. The newly formed County Plan ning Board will have many sources to draw information from in plan ning an over-all economic deve lopment plan for Brunswick. Dan Walker, Town Manager at Long Beach, has been named chairman of the six-man planning Committee. Other members are V. A. Creech, Graham C. Hammonds, Odell Williamson, Dr. R. B. Mc Continued On Page 5 Ask New Bids To Move Wreckage Bid Opening Scheduled At Engineers O f f i ce In Wilmington Thursday Af ternoon The Wilmington District, Corps of Engineers has again issued in vitations to bid for the removal and disposal of the sunken vessel “ULANA II” from the Shallotte River. Bid opening is scheduled for 2:30 p. m., October 3 in the Dis trict Engineer’s Office. Bids received on August 29 in response to a previous advertise ment of this work were excessive and had to be rejected. The vessel is of wood construc tion, approximately 54.3 feet long, 12.6 feet wide, 5.5 feet deep, and has a net weight of 29 tons. It lies in about 13 feet of water near the junction of the Atlantic Intracoas tal Waterway and the Shallotte River. Colonel J. S. Grygiel, District Engineer, stated that bids for the work are solicited from small busi ness concerns only. Petitions Being Circulated For Special Election ! Brunswick County Jaycees Asking For Special Vote ' To Authorize Levy For Industry Promotion Petitions calling for a county wide resources development elec tion are being circulated through out Brunswick county this week, Chairman William A. Powell of Southport announced Tuesday. Each petition contains the entire law regarding the establishment of a commission with the exception of voting procedures and regula tions. Although the law requires that the petition be signed by 500 per sons before consideration can be given by the Board of Commiss ioners, Chairman Powell said the Jaycees will try to have at least 2,000 names signed up favoring re sources development when the cam paign concludes. When the petition calling for the election is complete, it will be pre sented to the board of commiss ioners. If approved by the voters during the election, the tax rate would have to be raised to fi nance the new organization. The petitions were distribated at a meeting of the Resources-Deve lopment Commission, which is composed of representatives' of the Jaycee chapters at Bolivia, Ice land, Shallotte and Southport, Tuesday night in Bolivia. The club representatives then distributed them to the members. “We urge all persons interested in the economic development of the county to sign the petition,” Chair man Powell said. In connection with the petition circulation and election, Chairman Powell will speak at each of the ^ 8 county high schools within the next week to explain the issues in volved. “The election will determine the FAIT of Brunswick county,” Chair man Powell stated. “FAIT breaks down to cover Fishing, Agricul ture, Industry and Tourism.” ' ' Ai Calloway, a-.member of tha „ ^ Department of Conservation and Development in Raleigh, will meet with the Board of Commis sioners Monday morning at 10 Continued On Page 4 Nickels Vote To Aid Experiments Recent History Of Farm ing Shows Benefits That Come From Continued Research Program Agricultural research continues to supply answers to the multitude of questions the farmer asks as he goes about producing and market ing his commodities, reports A. S. Knowles, Acting County Extension Chairman. "Actually, the farmer is help ing supply his own answers. He is doing this with his contributions to research and education through the Nickels for Know-How pro gram,” Knowles said. I A referendum on this program is scheduled for November 19. For instances, Knowles says it was funds from the "nickels” pro gram that supported work by Ro bert Patterson who found that a copper deficiency was severely limiting soybean, wheat and com yields on high organic soils in North Carolina. Working as a graduate student - under Dr. S. E. Younts of the De partment of Soil Science at North Continued On Page 5 Tide Table Following la 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 3, 7:34 A. M. 1:42 A. M. 8:03 P. M. 2:06 P. M. Friday, October 4, 8:24 A. M. 2:28 A. M. 8:52 P. M. 2:57 P. M. Saturday, October 5, 9:15 A. M. 3:14 A. M. 9:42 P. M. 3:48 P. M. Sunday, October 6, 10:08 A. M. 4:04 A. M. 10:36 P. M. 4:41 P. M. Monday, October 7, 11:05 A. M. 4:55 A. M. 11:34 P. M. 4:38 P. M. i Tuesday, October 8, 12:04 A. M. 5:50 A. M. 6:39 P. M. Wednesday, October 9, 0:35 A. M. 6:50 A. M. 1:08 P. M. 7:44 P. M. /