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7 ''v'; ' ' ■■■ The Pilot Covers Brunswick County jv * 'S* - ■ ‘' : \ ■ ■ : - :':'7 v THE STATE PORT PILOT t vr x ■' v'V Most ot the News All The Time A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 23 No. 28 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1964 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Southport Launching Ramp VISITOR— This seaplane operated by the Wildlife Resources Commission, is r shown at the Southport launching ramp where it was tied up Thursday. Water-' front observers thought maybe they were seeing things. The plane was used through out that day for operations in the Southport area, (Staff Photo by Allen) Board Approves School Loan For Current Expense Commissioners Approve Ac tion For Loan Of $21,500 j Against Anticipated Tax j Revenue For Fiscal Year A decision to permit the Board of Education to borrow $21,500 for current expenses highlighted a meeting of the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners Monday j in Southport. The $21,500 will be used for the purpose of paying appropriations made for the current year and in anticipation of the collection of the taxes and other revenue for the current year. The sum does not exceed 50 per cent of the uncollected taxes of the current year, the county auditor’s office reported. The resolution, which was intro duced by Commissioner D. L. Gan ey, seconded by Ira Chadwick and unanimously passed states that “pursuant to the County Finance Act, as amended, and in order to borrow the sum of money spec ified, a negotiable promissory note or notes of the aggregate princi pal amount of $21,500 are hereby authorised to be issued. “The notes shall be dated Jan uary 30, 1964, shall mature July 30, 1964, and shall bear interest from their date, payable at ma turity, at a rate to be determined by the Local Government Com mission, not exceeding six per cen tum (6 percent) per annum. Both principal of and interest on said notes shall be payable in such city (Continued On Page 4) I *V ** Of lnewsj TO STATE CONVENTION State First Vice President James D. Bellamy of Shallotte will at tend the North Carolina Soil and Water Convention in Winston-Salem Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. ANNOUNCEMENT ASCS Manager Ralph L. Price announces a new “Price support” —a son, James Edward Price, born in Columbus County Hospi tal in Whiteville Sunday. The Prices live in Shallotte. REVIVAL SERVICE A revival service will begin Sunday night at 7 o’clock at Bethel Baptist Church at Leland. Guest minister will be Rev. Ray mond Batten. The pastor is Rev. Cleon Benton. BENEFIT BARBECUE A barbecue supper will be held from 5:30 until 7 p. m. preceeding the Bolivia-Southport doubleheader Friday night to raise money to purchase new uniforms, Harry Sanders, faculty member in charge, announced this week. CLOSES OFFICE Dr. R. H. Holden, Shallotte den tist, announced this week that he has closed his office in Shallotte, effective January 1. He plans to devote his time to real estate and other business interests. Work Pro On Li< Steel Tower Which Will' Replace Frying Pan Lightship Now Being Fabricated In New Or leans Work is going forward on the 1.6 million dollar Coast Guard con tract for the construction of a light, tower to be set in 46’ of water on the outer edge of Prying Pan Shoals, 34 miles off Cape Fear, North Carolina. J. Ray McDermott Company, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana, is the prime contractor for this pro ject. They are currently fabricat ing the various parts of the struc ture in their assembly yard on the Mississippi Delta below New Or leans, Louisiana. After assembly, the structure will be barged in sev eral pieces to the marine site where a template will be set on the bottom, pilings driven 250’ be low the mud line, and the struc ture lifted into place with huge floating marine cranes. Present scheduling calls fox *he erection to be accomplished during favor able weather of May-June 1964. This Coast Guard Offshore Light Tower has been designed to re place the aging Prying Pan Shoals Lightship. This is one in a series of Offshore Light Towes the Coast Guard is erecting along the East Coast. Fixed light tower structures are superior to floating lightships, displaying greater intensity lights from higher elevations and from fixed locations. Economy is also a major feature. The initial cost of a light structure approximates the initial cost for replacement of a lightship. Annual maintenance cost of the structure is considerably less as it can be operated with but six men. A lightship requires 16-20 men. The Frying Pan Shoals structure is designed to stand on four legs approximately 60’ apart with 36” diameter steel piling driven 250’ in to the bottom. The 4 legs are brac ed together 70’ above water to sup port a deckhouse. The deckhouse provides living quarters, radio beacon, and communications equipment. The roof of the deck house is designed as a heliport. A 32’ high tower is constructed on corner of the structure to sup port the flashing light and radio beacon antenna. A rotating beacon will give a light beam of 3.5 million candlepower which will appear as a single flash every 2.5 seconds. This light will be visible for 16 miles; the geographical limitation due to the curvature of the earth. A Marine radio-beacon having a range of 100 miles will be included among the navigation aids on this tower. A new type of electrical oscillator fog signal will be operat ed from the tower in periods of low visibility and may be heard for distances of 5 miles or greater. To provide distinctive visibility from greatest possible distances in the daytime, the deckhouse will be constructed of bright yellow por celain. The Frying Pan Shoals Light Structure has been designed by the Civil Engineering Divison of Coast Guard Headquarters, Wash ington, D. C. and the construction contract is being administrated by j the Fifth Coast Guard District Of | Continued On Page Four VJW ceeding t— I Railroad Man RUSSELL, SWINDELL Russell Swindell Gets New Post Man Who Helped Establish Marineology Department In Southport Working For Railroad Group The North Carolina Railroad As sociation has a ; new executive di rector. Russell A. Swindell, of Ra leigh, assumed his new duties Jan uary 1, according to an announce ment by M. V. Barnhill, Jr:, of Wil mington, chairman of the Associa tion’s executive committee. The new director will be respon sible for coordinating the work of the Association, which represents 23 railways. Swindell ia well known in Brunswick county where he was instrumental in the establishment of the marineology department at Southport High School and .where he assisted in setting up several of the pioneer classes in adult ed ucation for waterfront workers. A native of Swan Quarter in Hyde County, Swindell has been associated with the North Carolina educational programs since 1955, serving, first, as supervisor in.the Department of Public Instruction, and more recently, in the Depart ment of Community Colleges. Upon learning of his resignation, Dallas Herring of Rose Hill, Chair man of the State Board of Educa tion, expressed his gratitude for Swindell’s services “on behalf of the children of North Carolina, trade and industrial education, and public education in general for services unmeasured.” He describ ed Swindell as a “dedicated citizen deeply concerned for the disad vantaged, the neglected, the for gotten and the isolated.” Swindell is an alumnus of Louis burg College and served in North Carolina General Assemblies in 1951, 1953 and 1955. He is married to the former Martha Easterling of Maxton, and they have three child ren. Progress Made To Establish Drainage Work Preliminary Report For Caw Caw Drainage Pro ject Expected To Be Fil ed With Clerk Of Court A preliminary report on the caw caw watershed project will be filed in the Clerk of Court’s office in Southport within the next week, says Chairman James D. Bellamy of the Lower Cape Fear Soil and Water Conservation Dis trict. The report on the need for the first watershed project in Bruns wick county will be submitted by the Board of Viewers. The mem bers of the board, J. L. Blackman of Sampson county, Ralph King of Waccamaw and Roy Swain of Bo livia, were appointed by Clerk of Court Jack Brown as required by law. In addition to making the writ ten report, the board will prepare a land ownership and soil classifi cation map. Bellamy announced that under the cost-sharing plan, the federal government will provide 79% per cent of the cost. Local sources will be responsible for furnishing the remaining 20% percent. The caw caw project, which will be located in the Hickman’s Crossroads, Longwood and Gris settown area, will consist of a 17 mile main canel on the caw caw Little caw caw and Shingtree. The next stop for the project will be the establishment of the drain age district to serve as the legal body of the watershed project. The district group will be responsible for governing all watershed work. Bellamy said he hoped con struction would start in March or April so it can be completed this year. J ; ■. ■ Infant Tests Now Available Brunswick County Health Department. Cooperating In Important Test For Disease In cooperation with the Mater nity and Child Health Section ol the State Board of Health, the Brunswick County Health Depart ment and the physicians of Bruns wick are making it possible foi all new bom infants to be tested for a disease that causes mental retardation or feeble-mindedness. A special urine test should be made when the baby is three weeks old and again when it is eight weeks old. Materials and in structions will be furnished free to each mother when her baby is bom. When the disease is found early, regulation of diet can com pletely. prevent feeble-mindedness from this cause. The problem is one of the infant’s inability to handle a certain chemical in milk (mother’s milk or cow’s milk). The average occurance of the disease is around one in 20,000 infants. It is estimated that one to two per cent of inmates in mental institutions are there because of the disease. Truly it is rare, but can be completely avoided if urine tests are made before damage is done. To those interested in the name of the disease; it is phenylketon uria. TIME and TIDE It was January 7, 1959, and plans to conduct driver edu cation classes in the schools were announced. A book of poems by a former Southport teacher, Miss Louise McClure, was to be published in May. Superintendent John G. Long announced that he would write a weekly column in The Pilot on education in the county schools. A. P. Henry, Sr., of Winnabpw was honored by the Brunswick Rural Electric Corporation. The Southport Savings and Loan paid more than $50,000 in dividends to some 1,000 depositors. It was January 6, 1954, and the magazine “Official Detect ive” published a story about Luther Smith of Waccamaw who was serving a term in prison for murder. Former Governor W. Kerr Scott visited the county. j The county commissioners passed a resolution requesting thtat the ferry serving Holden Beach be moved down to Brick Landing for service to Ocean Isle Beach. Floyd Dilsaver was in Key West, Florida, looking after the Louis Hardee boats. It was January 5, 1949, and the dry forces were making plans to defeat the beer-wine election later in the month. An albino buck deer was killed by a Winnabow group of hunters. A. S. Knowles of Hoke county was named to replace J. E. Dodson as county agent. Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Rourk of Shallotte attended the Sugar bowl football game between North Carolina and Oklahoma in New Orleans. Maude H. Hankins, principal of j Piney Grove school, died Thursday. , (Continued On Pag* J Bolivia School Library t.. ' v ^i^ar^nwiraramHiiiimirrnnfffrmmmm NEW— This is the new elementary school library at Bolivia and the above photo shows a group of students making use of this new facility, which opened for the first time last week. (Staff Photo by Allen) Consolidation Is Cited As Answer To School Needs Survey Team Completes Co mprehensive Study Of Existing School Facilities In County A complete revamping of the schools of Brunswick has been rec ommended by the Division of School Planning of the North Car olina Department of Public In struction after surveying the coun ty system. The survey committee, compos ed of four state educators, released i 33-p*ge report on.the.educatiohtiJ program, population, transporta tion, finance and school plants of the county Monday. In summary, the committee rec ommended that the following con siderations be made for improving the schools of Brunswick county: 1. The Bolivia, Southport and Ice land secondary pupils, grades 7 12, should be housed in a centrally located and new school plant in ar effort to provide a more compre hensive program of education and to bring together enough pupils within reasonable transportation limitations to justify a comprehen sive program. 2. The secondary pupils, grades 7-12, at Waccamaw and Shallotte should be brought together at either the existing Shallotte School plant or construct a new secondary plant on a new site. 3. The secondary pupils, grades 7-12, at Lincoln and Brunswick County Training should be joined together on a new and centrally located site to permit the bringing together enough pupils to justify a comprehensive program of educa tion and to be within reasonable transportation limitations. 4. Tile existing Union School plant should be developed into a. Secondary school, grades 7-12, for secondary pupils in that geograp hical area. 5. The existing school plants at Lincoln, Bolivia, Leland, South port, Brunswick County Training, Continued On Page 4 Brunswick Citizens Will Vote Tuesday New Contractor At Sunny Point The Atlantic and Gulf Stevedores, Inc., of 115 At-, lantic Street, Norfolk, Va., has been awarded a contract estimated at $1,071,644 for stevedore and related ter minal services to be performed at Sunny Point Army Term »vinal, Southport:- The - work - - sta.rted‘ t>eSember'‘'l,' l963, and will continue to September 30, 1965. Nineteen firms were solicited and five responded. The announcement was <, rrS9.de try the TJ.-S, A$my\ Ter minal Command, 'Atlantic at | Brooklyn Army Terminal. Former School Principal Dies Funeral Services Held Thu rsday At Bolivia For Man Who Headed Two Coun ty Schools BOLIVIA—Oscar Clinton Burton, 57, former principal of Leland and Bolivia High Schools, died Tuesday morning in North Carolina Memor ial Hospital at Chapel Hill after a brief illness. He was a teacher at Atlantic High School in Atlantic at the time of his death. Burton was a member of Bethel Methodist Church and was a Mason, being a member of Py thagoras Lodge No. 249, AF & AM, Southport. Final rites were held Thursday at 3:30 p. m. at Bethel Methodist Church by the Revs. J. M. Carroll and Clyde S. Boggs, with burial in Zion Methodist Church Ceme tery. Masonic rites were rendered. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Garrett Burton; a son, Charles David Burton of Raleigh; a daughter, Miss Rebecca Eliza beth Burton of Chapel Hill; his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Burton of Dry Den, Va.; a brother, A. L. Bur ton, Big Stone Gap, Va.; three sisters, Mrs. Alice Lucas, Dry Den, Va., Mrs. Ellen Armentrout, Natural Bridge, Va. and Mrs. Hal lie Bell Myers, Pennington Gap, Va.; and a grandchild. Former Postal Employee Dies Mrs. Edna Davis Bell Died Saturday At Dosher Me morial Hospital; Funeral Monday The only person ever to retire as an employee of the Southport Post Office, Mrs. Edna Davis Bell, died here, Saturday at Dosher Me morial Hospital. She was 76 years old. Mrs. Bell first became a local postal employee when she entered duty as clerk in 1909. She left the service in 1914, but returned in 1935. She remained on duty at the Southport Post Office until retire ment in 1952. At that time she was Continued On rage 4 Great Interest In Little Federal Plan And In Re sources Development Commission Brunswick county voters have a two-fold interest in the Special Election Tuesday for in addition to the “Little Federal” plan that has such an important bearing upon the future house repre sentation from this county, there Is the proposition for the creat ion; of, % ..Resouirci^^Development eomipission, which is aimed at’Ihtf proving the economy of the coun ty and creating new job opport unities for its citizens. The “Little Federal” plan is the first of two amendments which appears on the State ballot. It wit clear the existing contitutiona: provision that would maintair Senate membership at 50 and wil: malce possible a redistricting plan which will give Brunswick anc other rural counties a better op portunity for representation ir that body. The second amendment deals with property rights for women alpf would empower the Genera Assembly to make the rights o; husband and wife the same ii each other’s separate property. The Resources Development Ta> proposal would provide for a ta> not to exceed 10-cents per hundrec dollar valuation to finance a Res ources Development Commissior for Brunswick county. This com mission would be a bi-partisiar body whose duties would be to at tract new industry and to promotf and encourage the development ol existing natural resources of the county. There will be 18 voting precincts in Brunswick county for the firsi time in this election. The latesi addition is Oak Island Precinct where voters will cast their ballo in the Long Beach City Hall. Mrs Lucy Bigford is the registrar an< she has reported that a total o 112 persons registered and thu became eligible to vote on Tues day. Promotion Will Return Dividend Resources Developmeni Commission Not Th« Same As County Plann ing: Board Recently Ap pointed By DEMPSEY HEWETT In a study of eleven counties ii North Carolina which have ta> supported programs, it has beer found that these counties have spent for the support of these pro grams an average of $19,490 per year. This figure would indicate tha> Brunswick County could support its program on a tax of less thar ten cents per $100 property valua tion. At no time can this Resource* Development Tax be increased above ten cents. A tax increase oi ten cents would cost the average tax payer only nine cents per week. As a result of these procurement programs by these eleven counties studied, they have obtained ar average of 6.2 new industries with a total average increase in proper Continued On Page Four Bolivia School 1 Has Elementary Library Room Various Groups And Indivi duals Cooperate To Make This Improvement Pos sible A community project has result ed in the establishment of a cen trally located elementary library at Bolivia school, according to Principal Thomas Davis. The new library for the elemen tary grades at the school was opened for student use after the Christmas holidays. This is the first time Bolivia has devoted a whole room to an elementary lib rary. When school opened in August,. Principal Davis discovered that there was a vacant room. Plans1 were then made to establish the." elementary library, a facility the school did not have. * The project began under the guidance of Miss Gertrude Loug lin, county elementary supervisor,. Miss Cora Paul Bowan, supervisor of libraries for the State De-‘ partment of Public Education,. and Principal Davis. Some 217 new books were pur-' chased for the library on a trip to Raleigh by Miss Loughlin and' Principal Davis. The Bolivia Lions! Club contributed $100 towards the new facility and $58 worth of' books were purchased by persons, interested in the school. Each book which was contributed to the lib-! rary has a label in the front with the donator’s name on it. * Old books were mended under, the supervision of Miss Loughlin. - The Bolivia Home Demonstration! Club has since taken over the pro ject of repairing the old books.] Principal Davis estimates there, are over 1,300 books in the library at the present time. The books] range from easy ones for first graders and progress upward. A] variety of subjects are covered. . Miss Loughkin also helped cat-' alogues all the books in the lib rary. The typing class, under Fos . ter Prevatte, typed the shelf Ust fdr the card catalog. ' « The Board of Education ftirnishr ed material for the library and painted the room and book shelves. The senior agriculture class,. Continued On Pace 4 Two Added To Health Staff Sanitarian Aide And Pub* lie Health Nurse For Shallotte Employed By Board Of Health David Buckner has been em« ployed by the Brunswick County Health Aid Department as a Sani tarian aid has been working in the county since November. The regular sanitarian, Harold Aldridge, will be responsible pri marily for the inspection and grad ing of restaurants, motels, meat markets etc., while Buckner will be. engaged primarily in the inspection of plumbing installations and part icularly in securing the construct*, ion of septic tanks and pit pri vies. He will be secondarily en gaged in the investigation of ; nuisances, mosquite breeding, dogr bites, etc. Effective December 23, Mrs. Esther G. Robinson has been em [ ployed as a Public Health Nurse ; to fill the vacancy left in the j Shallotte office when that nurse . resigned. Many Brunswick Coun ty citizens will remember that Mrs. Robinson served in this cap acity from 1946-56. 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 j' Pilot’s Association. ,/ IGH LO\f Thursday, January 9, Saturday, January 11 5:28 A. M. 11:54 5:28 A. M. 5:34 P. M. 5:34 P. M. 11:5* Sunday, January / 6:12 A. M. 12 ;> 6:18 P. M.' t t f Monday, Janua 6:55 A. M. \ 7:01 P. M. / Tuesday, Jan^ 7:35 A. M. 7:40 P. M. j 7:35 A. M. 7:40 P. M. Wednesday, j . 8:13 A. M. f 8:18 P. M. ■/ *
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