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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT Most of the News All The Time A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 23 No. 32 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1964 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Congressman Is Ready To Assist Fishing Meeting Points Out That He Has Made Prior Attempt To Bring About Public Hearing On Problems Congressman Alton Lennon said Monday he had arranged for a public hearing to be held on fishing conditions and access routes to the lower Cape Fear river several months ago but that it fell through for lack of response. Congressman Lennon’s statement resulted from a request by Southport Mayor Eugene B. Tom linson to hold a public hearing of the problem of easier access to fishing waters off the Brunswick county coast. It turned out that Congressman Lennon was two steps ahead of the Southport officials on the pro blem. He had requested a hearing be held several months ago but he says it fell through for lack of response. Kure Beach Mayor Stanley G. Cheek wrote to Congressman Len non in August concerning New In let and the tidal waters west of the inlet in the vicinity of Federal Point. Congressman Lennon then set up a public hearing with the Corps of Engineers. On October 25, he asked Mayor Cheek to select a date and place for such a hearing. He did not re ceive a reply. The next thing Congressman Lennon knew was that Mayor Tom linson wanted to meet with him on the fishing water problem—the same type of meeting Congress man Lennon had set up months ago. ‘ I have not heard a word from Mayor Cheek or anyone else con cerning the problem until I re ceived Mayor Tomlinson’s letter in January,” Congressman Lennon said. ‘‘I simply cannot understand why I’ve not heard from Mayor Cheek, especially since the arrange ments for the public hearing were made because of his request.” Congressman Lennon was refer-, ring to a meeting held in South port January 6 in which some 30 ' residents of Southport and Kure Beach discussed easier access routes to the fishing waters off the North Carolina coast. At the con clusion of the session, Mayor Tomlinson wrote a letter to Con gressman Lennon requesting a meeting the next time he was in the area. “I can not understand why some one from Kure Beach attending the meeting did not explain about the arrangements I had made for the public hearing,” he stated. The congressman has talked with Southport City Manager C. D. Pic kerrell about the matter. He said Mayor Cheek did not attent the Southport meeting but that some one from Kure Beach mentioned that there had been correspond ence with Congreeman Lennon con cerning the matter. Congressman Lennon has sug gested that Mayors Tomlinson and Cheek establish the date, place and addresses of persons who should be notified about a hearing. He offered to advise Colonel J. S. Gry griel so he can move forward on the plans for the hearing. The discussion would determirie the feasibility of accomplishing a project through New Inlet for shal low draft craft. It would include the stabilization and deepening of the channel from the ocean into the basin and to the boating fac ilities. "The serious situation now ex isting in the project area, because of the rapid shoaling of the chan nels, is of great concern to those using the facility,” Congressman Lennon stated. Colonel Grygiel, in answer to a request, told Congressman Lennon in October that the Corps of En gineers had decided to make a re connaissance report on the pro blem. He said a public hearing should be held to insure that the required reports, including all im provements desired by local inter ests could be appraised. He sug Continued On Page 6 I JHV *** °f L-NEWS-1 HEADS ASSOCIATION Rev. Robert Childs, pastor of the Southport Presbyterian Church, has been elected president of the Wilmington Area Presbyterian Minister’s Association. ATTEND CONFERENCE Bolivia Mayor Arliss Willetts and Alderman Douglas Hawes attend ed the Governor’s Conference for Mayors in Smithfield Thursday. During the conference the “Smith field Plan’* of town beautification was discussed in detail. fei. I ■ - Shallotte Building | CONSTRUCTION—This big new building is being erected as the future site of a furniture store. It is situated on U. S. 17 on the outskirts of Shallotte. It has a 100-foot frontage and is 80-feet in depth. The owner is Eli Kravitz and the con tractor is Floyd King. (Staff Photo by Allen) Board Discusses Plan For Setting Up New Service Citizens From Several Sect ions Met Monday With Commissioners To Urge Quick Action The proposed Resources Deve lopment Commission was discussed by a development specialist at a meeting of the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners Monday in Southport. Manager Roy Stevens of the Jacksonville Greater Chamber of Commerce told the board how On slow county selected the members of the commission, hired a. deve- j TopSieht engineer and solved other j •Important problems. He recommended establishing a $30,000 budget for the commission to operate on each, year “The com mission must not toe hampered by lacH of funds,” Manager Stevens stated. Board Chairman Herbert r. Swain pointed out- that only a small vote put the commission over in Brunswick county and no one knows for sure where the great majority of the people stand on the matter. Under these circum stances, he said a $30,000 budget might be to h'£h at the present time. Chairman Swain suggested that if the board moved to quickly on the' question citizens against the commission- could call for an elec tion to vote it out. Jaycee Development Chairman William Powell said there was no Way the people could vote the commission out. He stated there was no law on the books pertain ing to the removal of a commis sion once the people vote it in. “It would take a special act of the legislature to allow the people to put the commission out of exist ance,” he said. Manger Stevens stated he had never heard of a commission voted out of existance. He said he had visited 19 different commissions in the state and had found very little discent and then only from those which failed to spend the proper amount of money to make it sue cessful. “Objections come for penny-pin ching commissions, not from ones which spend the proper amount of money,” Chairman Powell stated. “Without the proper amount of money, there is no use having a development commission,” Man ager Stevens stated. “It will only fail." Chairman Swain said me ooaiu has proved itself to be a supporter of the resources development com mission and will continue its sup port. “We are taking out time to insure that we are getting the very best men to serve on the group,” he stated. “This is a very import ant committee and we want to be sure we get off on the right foot,” During the meeting Manager Stevens discussed various aspects of the proposed commission from his experiences derived form or ganizing a similar one in Onslow county. In his county the commission is composed of one representative from each of the five townships, the county agent, two members from the Chamber of Commerce and one at large representative. A $30,000 budget has been est ablished for the commission’s work. This includes $15,000 for salaries; $1,000, office supplies, $5,000, travel; $1,000, automobile operation; $3,5000 for the purch ase of an automobile; $5,000, tele phone expenses; $500, postage; Republics Willetts George Clark Of Wilming-* ton Principal Speaker At Republican County Con vention Saturday A speach by George Clark on organization and the election of new party leaders highlighted the Brunswick County Republican Convention held in Bolivia Satur day afternoon. “The Republican party needs to set-up county organizations which will not stop functioning until the votes are counted in November,” Clark told about 90 county Repub V•***.»•.'- -; I dress on the need for strong Re publican organizations in all 100 counties in the state. Clark gained prominence in 1960 when he was defeated in a bid for the state sen ate although he took New Han over county. “To receive votes in elections, you must be well organized,” he said. ‘‘Organize and you will win.” Clark said the New Hanover Re publicans were considering several organizational changes. They in clude enlarging the executive com mittee to include precinct chair man, having a member on the executive committee in charge of precinct organization, and setting up women’s groups, Young and Teenage Republican organizations. ‘‘We plan to enlarge the execu tive committee so as to keep as many people informed as possible” he stated. Clark believes the organizational work will pay off for the party in November. “There is no doubt in my mind the Republican party will take New Hanover county in No vember,” he declared. In conclusion, Clark said he could not stress organization strongly enough. “Organization is the key to success at the polls,” Clark said. After Alford Willetts was voted chairman of the convention and Guy Willetts secretary, various county Republican officials were Continued On Page Four Southern Bell Pays Big Taxes Advalorum Tax Paid In Brunswick Is Only Small Part Of Big Tax Load By This Utility Southern Bell Telephone Com pany paid last week a check in the amount of $4,453.07 to Brunswick County as payment for advalorem taxes. H. F. Kincaid, local Southern Bell manager, said the check war mailed to Ressie R. Whatley, Brunswick County Tax Collector. “This $4,453.07 payment by South era Bell stays here in Brunswicl county and helps provide school: and police protection,’’ Kincaic said. This payment is part of an es timated $10,127,000 total tax bil which Southern Bell will pay to th< state of North Carolina and it; municipalities and counties for th year 1963. This estimate does no include income, social security am excise tax payments to the Federa government, which amount to $23, 450,000 in North Carolina. When these latter payments ar included, according to Kincaid, af proximately 30 cents of every do lar paid by the telephone user fo telephone service goes for taxes. Honored MBS. LINDA, VARNUM Mrs. Varnum Is Honored For Job Secretary At Brunswick County Extension Service Office Has Been On Job 12 Years The Agricultural Extension Ad visory Board and Extension Ser vice Staff honored Mrs. Linda Var num, extension fjsecretary, for 10 or more years of faithful’ and de voted service tofthe extension pro gram at a sutler at Calabash Tuesday night. *e was awarded a Ten Years CertMcate for her un selfish devotion® to duty by the North Carolina Bxtension Service. This is a n®r program just started by the*State Extension Continued Bi Page 4 TME and TIDE It was resident Jugj surance rats| for propert; deductibles 1 Walter' Boosters Ct> 1859 occuril I was attenci farming cov^ It was Thomas wil Democratic} peratures Miss I camaw Bail Savings ar-J during 105;: It waJ to reject tl and Lelanf after the A mitj residents Church iij It w; permitted! raiy 4’ 1859, and Rudolph I. Mintz was named f 016 ^th District. Extended coverage in l‘e raised from 20-cents to 40-cents per $100 I *** east of toe inlan<i waterway and the panged from $50 to $100. L;?e was elected President of the Southport [e first fatal highway accident of the year f Maco Monday. James A. Smith of Preeland H Waccamaw Bank and Trust Compos I state College. ’ 3> le54> snd former Representative Cornelius I in st man to announce his candidacy for the Nion for the board of commissioners. Tem hy ranged from 19-degrees to 70-degrees, pees was named assistant cashier of the Wac trust Company in Southport. The Southport Association increased assets by 47.65 percent pi.v 3, 1949, and the county voted two to one 11 -sale of beer and wine with only Southport for such sales. School buses were repaired |y said they needed servicing. Intruder entered the homes of two Southport p night and escaped. Chapel Hill Baptist |tte was making plans to install new pews. I'ary 2, 1944, and Prank Sherrill of Charlotte |my to use Bald Head Island for a maneuver ■ Continued On rage 4 County Chamber Of Commerce Is Now Objective Monday Night Meeting At Shallotte Brought Discus sion Of Plans For Distri buting Folders The membership of the Bruns wick County Chamber of Com merce has gone on record as favor ing expanding the organization to make it county-wide in fact as well as in name. No negative votes were cast when J. D. Griffin of Holden Beach moved that the chamber go on record favoring having Bruns wick County as a whole in the organization. Griffin’s motion came after general discussion re vealed that most of the group were adverse to calling the organization, which at the present time is made up of membership from Shallotte and the southern Brunswick beaches, the Shallotte Branch of the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce. During the discussion, Griffin, chairman of the promotion com mittee, stated that a new Bruns wick County brochure was made possible through county-wide co operation. The brochure was fin anced through sale of ads in a bus iness directory. Almost half of the ads came from outside the Shal lotte area. Some 14,000 copies of the brochure were purchased by individual bus inesses and municipalities in the county. The balance of the first printing of 24,000 will be distribut ed through the Department of Con servation and Development, local facilities, and through Chamber of Commerce in cities from New York to Mobile, Alabama. The brochure project was the chamber’s prime activity during its first year of operation. During the coming year an effort will be made to distribute more copies of the attractive promotional piece. However, the main concern of • thejnembers present at the Mon tbure #*,«**' - McLamb Is The First Candidate PreSfn* Jud«e Of Record er « Court Will Seek De mocratic Nomination For House W. J. McLamb, currently ser ving- as Judge of Recorder’s Court broke the political ice in Bruns wick county Saturday when he tued as a candidate for the Dem ocratic nomination for members °f H°USe of Representatives. if he is nominated and elected to this post, it would not be a new experience for McLamb, for he was elected to the House in 1942 and served as Representative from Brunswick in the 1943 session. Later he served for 10 years as Recorder, and after an interim per iod, was elected again to that post two years ago. In addition to his political in terests, McLamb is a success ful farmer and contractor and for merly was in the automobile bus mess in Shallotte. His announcement creates a wide open field for Judge of Re corder’s Court with no immediate Continued On Page Four Coveted Award EAGLE AWARD—Jack Duffie, son of Col. and Mrs. Johnnie Duffie, receives his Eagle Scout Award from Lt. Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, commanding general of the V US Army Corps, in Frankfurt, Ger many. Jack began his scout work in the Southport Wilmington area. He is now a member of the Trans Atlantic Council in Germany. Col. Duffie is currently the Transportation Officer for V Corps. He formerly was commanding officer at Sunny Point. S & L Application For Shallotte Office Director E. HOBSON KIRBY Hawes Elected County Head Supply Man Heads Bruns wick County Division Of SENCland Association J. J. Hawes has been elected chairman of the Brunswick county division of the SENCland Associ ation. Serving with him will be William Powell, vice-chairman; and Mrs. Edna Bennett, secretary treasurer. Hawes gave a brief explanation of SENCland and it’s activities and G. E. Henderson reported on the Tour-Aroma campaign last year and what they hope to ac complish this year. Chairman for the following year were discussed and appointed as follows: Agriculture - Hugh Vance, Industry - William Powell, Re creation and Travel, Henderson chairman, Mrs. Margaret Hood, co-chairman, Community Develop ment - Hawes chairman and Mrs. Edna Bennett, co-chairman. In outlining the ’64 program the following projects were adopt ed: Community Development - Re organize two inactive clubs. Agriculture - Support Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation Garden Contest. Continue corn project and support a swine pro duction program. Industrial Development - Let the commissioners know that the group supports a strong and active Resource Development commission to use the tax money (just voted in) wisely and to best advantage of county. Recreation and Travel - (1) Help distribute the brouchres that the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce had printed last year, (2) see the completion of the wel Continued On Page Four * Hobson Kirby Ntimed Mem ber Of Board Of Direc tors Of Southport Savings And Loan Association A decision to formerly apply to the North Carolina Insurance Com mission for permision to open a branch office in Shallotte high lighted a stockholders meeting of the Southport Savings and Loan Association Friday in Southport. The finance committee of the association considered area inter est, the extensive building pro gram, business expansion and gen I eral Pro&ressiveness as well as the finincidial feasibility before mak ing formal request for the Shal lotte branch. President Harold T. St. George told the stockholders. This will be the second time the Southport Saving and Loan Associ ation has tried to established a branch office in Shallotte. In Nov ember of 1960, the finance com mittee investigated the possibilities and feasibilities of opening a Shal lotte branch. The committee met with the deputy commissioner of the State Insurance Department, by whom state chartered saving and loan associations are governed, and discussed the matter in detail! The propossal was rejects at that time. E. Hobson Kirby of Shallotte was elected to serve as a director ' of the association at the meeting Friday. He replaces Joel L. Moore ‘ of Southport who died last year. H, T. St. George as re-elected ' president; D. C. Herring vice-pre- 1 sident; W. P. Jorgensen, secretary- : treasurer; and the following mem- ‘ bers as directors: H. Foster Mintz, 1 [ Lewis J. Hardee, S. B. Frink, : James B. Church and Kirby. ’ 1 A report of a successful year of 1 operation was presented to the ] stockholders at the meeting Fri- 1 The past year’s operation I * has been very successful and we * added substantially to our total ' savings, total assest and total f reserves while we increased our I volume of home financing in the I county,” President St. George I AS of December 31, 1903, total assets of Southport Savings and Loan Association stood at $3,782, 579, a gain of over $500,000 in total assets reported in 1962. Net savings gains during 1963 total $181,110, increasing the institut ion's total savings balances to $3,093,527.00. Southport Savings and Loan currently is paying 414% dividend rates on all regular savings ac counts. Totals dividends paid dur ing 1963 reached a record $124,883 and the association’s total number of savings accounts increased to ‘For more than two decades, the home mortgage lending in which savings and loan associations trad itionally specialize has proven to be one of the soundest possible in vestments and one which has made it possible for associations to pass on their relatively high earnings to their savers,” Presidents St George stated. “In addition, sav ings and loan financing activities have helped build and improve Continued On Page Four Select Same Men As Members Elections Board Democratic Executive Com mittee Takes Step In Ef fort To Work Out Agree ment For State Senate The Brunswick County Demo cratic Executive Committee rec ommended holding a meeting with Bladen and Columbus counties to work out a senatorial agreement at once during a meeting in Bo livia Thursday night. First the Executive committee voted in favor of a rotation agree-” ment providing for each of the three counties in the State Sen atorial district to be represented by a senator every six years. "Mindful of the fact that the Co- - lumbus County Democratic Execu-1 tive Committee has gone on re cor J . favoring a different proposal, we" recommended a joint meeting,” * Chairman Kirby Sullivan stated. • The Brunswick group suggested ^ that either the entire executives ■ committees of the three counties meet at once and try to work out I a solution or that a. delegation - from each executive committee of ’ not less than six, plus the chair-1 man, meet at once, with each dele- - gation being fully empowered to * act for the entire committee. ■/ “Either of the two methods * meets with our approval and we l will agree to whichever method Bladen and Columbus counties pre-' fer,” Chairman Sullivan stated. I E. J. Prevatte of Southport, • Douglas Hawes of Bolivia, Joseph’ N. Gainey of Leland, Mrs. H. Fost- - er Mintz of Bolivia, Mrs. S. B. ’ Frink of Southport, Mrs. L. B. I Benton of Shallotte and Chairman” Sullivan were appointed to serve, on the committee if the second plan is adopted by the other two" counties. Z Because of greater population, the Columbus Democratic Execu-’ tive committee voted in late De«. cember for a two county rotation." Under the plan, Columbus would* have a senator every term and Brunswick and Bladen every thirfi term.-- . Mrs. L. D' Benidn ‘of Continued On Page Four & Former County Official Dies Leo F. Medlin, Pronrnent Citizen O f Northwest Township, Died Wednes day ; Funeral services for Leo Frank lin Medlin, 57, of the Northwest; Community, who died Wednesday, were held at 11 a. m. Friday at the All Souls’ Episcopal church ate Northwest. The Rev. Edward Jor dan officiated The deceased is former mem ber of the board of county com missioners and a former official ot the ASC organization in Bruns wick county. He was a prominent farmer and businessman of the Northwest township section. Interment was in the church, cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jeani Gaylord Medlin; two daughters, Mrs. Carol M. Carroll of North west and Mrs. Martha M. Williams of Athens, Tenn.; three borthers, E. E. Medlin of Northwest, W. T. and John R. Medlin, both of Vir ginia Beach, Va.; five sister, Mrs. Mary M. Page and Mrs. S. D. Williams, both of Northwest, Mrs. Willie Mae Turbeville and Mrs. Paul Gallut, both of Virginia Beach, Va., and Mrs. Wilbur Mar tin of Aynor, S. C.; and four grandchildren. Tide Table Following is the Ode 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, February 6, 2:11 A. M. 8:36 A. M. 2:18 P. M. 8:50 P. M. Friday, February 7, 3:04 A. M. 9:34 a. M. 3:13 P. m. 9:44 p. m. Saturday, February 8, 3:59 A. M. 10:30 A. M. 4:06 P. M. 10:37 P. M. Sunday, February 9, 4:51 A. M. 11:22 A. M.' 4:59 P. M. 11:27 P. M, Monday, February 10, 5:39 A. M. 12:10 A. M. 5:48 P. M. Tuesday, February 11 6:25 A. M. 0:13 A. 6:34 P. M. 12:55 P. Wednesday, February 12 7:08 A. M. 0:57 A. 7:16 P. M. 1:37 P.
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