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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County T ~.%r STATE PORT PILOT Most of the News All The Time A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 23 No. 34 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1964 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Jones Building Inspector For Long Beach Area Town Commissioners Also Take Steps To Insure Building Standards Pend ing Further Action The Long Beach Board of Com missioners has appointed Robert Jones to serve as Building Inspec tor. The board voted unamiously to combine all building inspection phases under one office, with Jones having the responsibility for inspecting construction, plumbing and electrical wiring. Jones, who is retiring from the contracting business, will assume his new duties within a few weeks. The board authorized Town Man ager Dan L. Walker to work out the mechanics of the new job with Jones. The fee schedule and gen eral procedures of obtaining a building permit will be determined by the board at its next regular meeting in March. & The commissioners voted un amiously to adopt the state resi dential building code, as amended, as the building code of the town of Long Beach, with the option of adopting the state hurrican build ing code for the first three rows of beach front cottages at a later date. An ordanance creating a 6-man Town Planning Board was passed. To prevent non-regulated commer cial developement pending a tot al program of town planning, to be decided upon by the planning board in cooperation with profes sional city planners, the board vot ed to implement a stop-gap ordan ance requiring all plans for com mercial buildings and alternation to be approved by the town. Regarding a proposed referen dum on beer sales in Long Beach, Manager Walker announced a rul ing at the state level stating that 25 percent of the voters who were eligible for the last town council election may initiate such a refer endum by signed petition. The board voted against starting such a' petition themselves, but agreed to allow use of the mailing list of registered voters to interested citi zens. In answer to a question by Com missioner E. W. Morgan, Walker said that preparation for a town audit is nearing completion and that the auditor will be called in before the next regular board meeting. Regular audits have been delayed by the long process of switching town record keeping methods over to a system recom mended by the Local Government Commission, Walker said. >;/ ■ i ■ if I ihv m*§ of ■-NEWS-1 WORKING FOR MOORE James Bellamy of Shallotte has been named to head the “Farm ers for Moore” campaign by Gub ematural candidate Dan K. Moore. NAMED BY GOVERNOR Dr. Bennie Brooks Ward of Shallotte has been appointed by Governor Terry Sanford as a mem ber of the Medical Advisory Coun cil of the State Board of Mental Health. FERRY MEETING A group of Jaycees from South port and Carolina Beach will meet with Governor Terry Sanford next Thursday morning in Raleigh to discuss the Southport-Fort Fisher ferry. SATURDAY HOLIDAY Saturday will be observed as a holiday by the two branches of the Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co. in Brunswick county and by the Southport Savings & Loan Associ ation in honor of George Washing ton’s Birthday. ON TELEVISION Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., will appear with Ben McDonald on WECT-TV on the “Day Ahead" program Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Also appearing on the show will be A. A. Canautas of Kures Beach. FOX HUNT BREAKFAST Breaskfast will be served Fri day and Saturday mornings this week at the recreation hall of Ocean View Methodist Church for visiting fox hunters and other guests. The proceeds will be for the benefit of Dosher Memorial Hospital. P. T. A. MEETING Founders Day objectives and activities will be the topic of the panel discussion at the regular P. T. A. meeting on Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock in the South port High School auditorium. The high school glee club will also take part in the program. Officers Have The Evidence GOODS—Policeman W. P. Pegram and Southport Police Chief Herman Strong are shown here with several bottles of moonshine liquor and a part of a manu facturing apaiatus they captured in cooperation with the Brunswick countv Shenff s Department in a raid near the city limits Thursday afternoon. (Staff Photo by Allen) v Schedule Fox Round-Up Event For Long Beach Hundreds Of Visitors Ex pected To Participate In This Year’s Big Fox Hunt The famous Washington’s Birth day Fox Round Up will be held at Long Beach Thursday, Friday and Saturday, says Town Manager Dan L. (The Original Hound) Walker. Some 81 hounds have already been registered by fox hunters from throughout North Carolina for the third annual event. “We are pleased with this quick re sponse,” Walker said, "since ap plication blanks were not mailed out until last week”. He stated that several out-of state hounds and hunters are ex pected for the round-up. Registration for the event will start Thursday at the Town Hall. A meeting of all hound owners will be held at the Lorraine Res taurant at 6 p. m. where the elec tion of the Order of the Flea will be observed. The group was organ ized this year to serve as an ad visory committee for the round-up. Registration will continue Fri day with the first cast out time for the hounds scheduled for 6 a. m. The famous “Hound’s Hair and Chowder” dinner will be served served from 5 to 8 p. m. Friday at the Yaupon Skating Rink. Dur ing the dinner, first and second prizes will be given for the horn blowing, fox calling and tall hound tales contests. Doug McGinnis of Hollywood, California, who is visiting his par ents in Southport, and his group, Continued On Page Four Ed Gore Dies In Auto Wreck i Former Southport Man Is j Instantly Killed In Robe son County Accident Friday Ed Gore, former Southport re sident, was killed in an automobile accident which occurred late Fri day afternoon north of Maxton. A companion also died in the wreck. The two men died instantly when their automobile went out of control on a Lumber River bridge and brust into flames. Gore, 51, lived on route 3, Max ton, and Jetter Maynor, 31, Indian of route 3, Laurinburg was the sec ond victim. Gore was apparently driving the 1954 Buick, which was traveling south on Highway 1303 shortly after 6:30 Friday. Gore’s body was extricated from the flaming car by Tommie, Ben and Bill Stanton, who heard the crash from their home nearby. The Maxton Rescue Squad, ar riving a few minutes later, found Continued On Page Four Aldermen Appoint Hospital Trustees Three New Members Nam* ed To Board Thursday Night; Progress Report Made On Yacht Basin An announcement that the city had purchased all needed land for the proposed small boat harbor highlighted a meeting of the South port Board of Aldermen at the City Hall Thursday night. City Attorney Kirby Sullivan said all property owners had agre ed to sell their property to the city for a little over $3,000. Most of the rights-of-way were donated. The state will re-emburse the city for all the property and ex pense within 90-days. City Manager C. D. Pickerrell said the plans and specifications for the proposed project have been ap proved with a few exceptions. Cor rections are being made now, he added. Pickerrell said he talked with Highway Commission and Tele phone officials about providing needed services this week. The telephone officials said they would try to save as many trees as possible in establishing new lines to the area. Mayor Eugene B. Tomlinson an nounced that a public hearing will be held in the Brunswick County Court Room on February 27 to dis cuss the $260,000 bond issue. All citizens will be given a chance to Continued On Page Four Brunswick Will Help Fight Polio Doctors And Health De partment Will Lead Fight For Eradication Of This Disease The New Hanover County Med ical Society is sponsoring a mass polio immunization program and the Brunswick county doctors and the Brunswick County Health De partment will cooperate. The aim is to get everybody as nearly as possible to take the vaccine, which is taken by mouth on a lump of sugar. The vaccine will be offered to everybody in each of the three clinics. The clinics will be held in all Brunswick County schools from 12 o’clock until 5 o’clock on Sun days, March 22, April 19 and May 17. A different type of polio virus is given at each clinic, so it is very important to get each dose. Those able to do so will be ask ed to pay 25-cents for each dose. Those not able to pay will get it free. Those unable to pay will be making a very important contribu tion to the people of the county by taking the vaccine, for in protect ing themselves and their children they will be protecting all unvac cinated children in not being able to take the germ to them. K Club Sponsors Tree Planting Plant a live oak tree in Southport and earn $2, says the Southport Garden Club. Because of the diminishing number of trees, the club has offered to pay the first 25 per sons who set-out live oak trees $2 for each such tree they plant. But the tree must live for six months before the mon ey can be collected. The trees can be planted anywhere in the city of South port. Anyone interested in earning $2 or more should con tact Mrs. James Barnes, presi dent elect, for more details. Capture Still And Operators Operation Located Near City Limits Broken Up B y Police Department And Sheriff Deputies A 250-Gallon still was destroyed and two Negro men arrested dur ing a whiskey raid near the edge of Southport Thursday afternoon. Continued On Page Four County Baptist Churches Take Part In Revival Ten Baptist Churches In Brunswick Will Partici pate In Jubilee Revival Campaign During March Ten Baptist churches in the Brunswick Baptist Association will take a leading role in the nation wide Baptist Jubilee Revival Cam paign, March 8-22, the Rev. D. G. Thomas announced this week. The theme for the evangelistic crusade is "Spiritual Conquest. . . NOW!” The Rev. D. G. Thomas, pastor of the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church and general chairman for the cam paign, said, “This is one of 1,100 Baptist Jubilee Revivals being held in 30,000 Baptist churches in all 60 states. A goal of 600,000 bap tisms has been adopted by South ern Baptists. "Seven Baptist Conventions in America are celebrating 160 years of organized Baptist missionary work in 1964. More than 70,000 Baptists are expected to meet in Atlantic City May 19-23, to climax the Baptist Jubilee Advance.” Julian Hopkins, Director of Evangelism for North Carolina Baptists, in cooperation with the Division of Evangelism of the Souther Baptist Convention, has been planning this evangelistic crusade since 1960. The associational committee working with the Rev. Thomas for the campaign are Rev. Mark Owens, Rev. Bruce Lanier, Mrs. Margaret McRacken, Mrs. Ressie Whatley, Mrs. Aim Price, Mrs. J. J. Hawes, John R. Sellers, Sam Corbett, Harold Williams, Tyler Potter, and Eugene Tomlinson. Sanitation Is Being Stressed Survey Of Sanitary Facili ties Being 'Conducted With Minimum Require ments Being Enforced An environmental and coastline survey is currently being conduct ed by tbe Brunswick Health De partment to check toilet facilities in the county, according to Chief Sanitarian Harold Aldridge. All places where people work and live are being investigated to make sure minimum sanitation conditions are maintained during both surveys. “The department had wanted to undertake both projects for some time,” Aldridge said, “but we lacked the manpower.” When David Buckner was em ployed by the health department as an aid, plans were made to commence the survey work. Buck ner is in charge of the field work for the two projects. Aldridge said the state law re quires that every place of business and residence have sanitary sew age disposal units. The law re quires, at the very minimum, that pit privies be maintained. The project, which will cover all of Brunswick, started in November in the Grissettown area. When nine residents refused to meet the min imum standards, the health de partment brought court action that resulted in nine convictions. This week, Buckner is surveying the Thomasboro and Winnabow areas. The department also is working Continued On Page Four It was February 18, 1959, and Board of Elections Chair man Corbett Coleman of Ash was elected vice president of the Fifth District School Board Association. Superior Court Judge Rudolph I. Mintz,' formerly of Shallotte, was the Tar Heel of the Week in the Raleigh News and Observer. The Brunswick County basketball tournament opened in Leland Wednesday with the Shallotte girls and the Iceland boys favored. Malcolm Knox of Bolivia and Donald Ray Lennon of Leland were on the Dean's Last at East Carolina College. It was February 17, 1954, and the third major fire in less than two months in Shallotte destroyed the Remsula restaurant. John L. Stone, Charlie Skipper, Alex Williams, Magnus Tripp and Elbert H. Gray were candidates for sheriff. Tax Collector Jack Brown announced he would oppose Sam T. Bennett for the position of Clerk of Court. The Southport American Legion post voted to sponsor a Boy Scout troop. It was February 16, 1949, and the Brunswick Baptist ! Association’s School of Missions was to be held in 19 of the 26 Baptist churches in the county within the next five days. The Little Symphony Orchestra played two concerts in the county Friday. The law firm of Frink and Herring asked the legislature to reject an oyster bill introduced by Representative Odell William son until a public hearing could be held. Sheriff Walter Stana Contlnued On Page Four Resources Board Appointed Monday Resources Development Commission Members Sworn In At Monday Morning Meeting I n Southport The naming of a nine-man Re sources Development Commission highlighted a meeting of the Bruns wick County Board of Commis sioners Monday in Southport. The nine man board includes two Negroes and one Republican and has representatives from each of the six townships in the county. Members appointed to the board Monday include William A. Powell and J. A. Francis of Smithville, O. W. Cleaton of Northwest, Tease Pervis of Town Creek, J. T. Clem mons and J. R. Corbitt of Lock woods Folly, Harris V. Thompson and Hezekiah Stanley of Shallotte and A. E. Dutton of Waccamaw. Powell, Cleaton and Purvis were named for three year terms, Fran cis, Clemmons and Thompson for two years and Corbitt, Dutton and Stanley for ore year. Francis and Stanley are Negroes while Clemmons is a Republican. Clerk of Cour; Jack Brown ad ministered the oath of office to Purvis, Cleaton, Powell, Clemmons Continued On Page Four * Candidate RICHARDSON PREYER, candi date for the Democratic nomina tion for governor, will be in South port at 8 o’clock Monday morning to meet friends and supporters and to make a brief talk. He is on his state-wide tour of 100 counties. No Agreement On Senate Rotation Scholarship To Be Given Again Application forms have been , delivered, tQ., .principals of the consolidated high schoolfT'Of “': Brunswick county for the Nur sing Scholarship Award given each year by the Southport Woman’s Club. In addition, a list of the 21 nursing schools in the state is being furnished. The $750 award made by the local club will pay the cost of room, board and tuition at these schools. For annitional material or information, contact should be made with Mrs. E. C. Blake, president of the Southport Woman’s Club. Fishermen In Saturday Meet Discuss Plans For Public Hearing Concerning Pro ject To Deepen New In let Plans to improve fishing con ditions in the lower Cape Feai River were discussed at a meeting of some 30 persons from South port, Carolina Beach and Kurt Beach held at the city hall Satur day morning. Southport Mayor Eugene B Tomlinson told of the needs foi economic justification for the pub lic hearing and presented state ments by Southport fishermer estimating fishing losses totalling $25,000 due to not having a pass age through the Smith Islanc back bay area. Kure Beach Attorney A. A Canoutas announced that a public hearing before the Corps of En gineers had tentatively been se) for April. Mayor Tomlison said another meeting would have to be held in April to make final plans for the hearing. “The general approach we’re going to ask the Corps of Engi neers to consider is to maintain New Inlet (below Fort Fisher) as a navigable inlet and to provide us with a navigable channel, pro bably through Cedar Creek, into the Cape Fear River,” Mayor Tom linson said Saturday. "We can prove now that when there's a southwester blowing, our party boats and commercial fisher men have to stay in the harbor. “The wind makes it so rough in Long Bay the boats can’t get out the mounth of the river to fish. “The same thing is true when a northeaster is blowing, but only to the boats at Kure and Carolina beaches,” he pointed out. “When the southwest winds are blowing it’s calm on the Carolina and Kure Beach side, which is north of the shoals, and it's just the opposite when a northeaster s blowing,” Mayor Tomlinson added. The calmmess extrends all the Continued On Page Four I* Senator From Ninth Dis trict Will Be Elected On At-Large Basis; One Candidate Already I n Race The 5:30 Monday afternoon deadline for filing a senatorial rotation agreement between Bruns wick, Bladen and Columbus Count; ies came without any action being taken. The three counties make up the ninth senatorial district with one senator allocated. For a rotation agreement to be binding all three counties would have had to concur on a plan. Without an agreement the dis trict will be represented by an at large candidate. Sen. Carl Meares of Columbus County has already announced that he will seek re-election. No one from Brunswick or Bladen has indicated as yet that they will be a candidate. The at-large policy opens the door for as many candidates from the three counties to run as can pay the filing fee. Delegations from all three Dem ocratic executive committees met last week in Whiteville to try to formulate an agreement. Bladen county would only agree to a sys tem wherein that county would have the senator for the first term. Last Friday night the Columbus county executive committee met and rejected this plan and in turn 'offered to go along with a plan of fered by Brunswick where Colum bus would . be allowed to furnish the senator on the first and fourth terms, leaving the second and third to either Bladen or Brunswick. This plan was not acceptable to Bladen thus the at-large situation. Democrats in all three counties have indicated that the at-large policy may be the best for all con cerned in that the elected senator will more truly represent all the people of the district. Former Judge New Candidate H. Cortez Ward Announces Candidacy For Demo cratic Nomination For Recorder's Judge H. Cortez Ward, Waccamaw township fanner, is the first cand idate to announce for the Demo cratic nomination for Judge of Recorder’s Court. This is a position that was held for several months during 1962 by Ward, so the duties will not be strange to him if he is nominated and elected. He was not a candid ate for reelection that year. As a matter of fact, Ward re signed as a member of the board of county commissioners to ac cent appointment to the position ifter Earl Bellamy resigned. Odell Jenrette came on the board as a replacement for Ward and W. J. McLamb won the Democratic nomination and eventually was elected to the post of Recorder’s Judge, where he is now serving. A wide-open field recently was Continued On rage * Annual Meeting To Set Future Of County Body Brunswick County Chamber Of Commerce Will Meet At Boiling Spring Lakes Country Club The Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce annual meeting an nounced by Philip L. Thomas of Shallotte, president, is to be held Monday at 7:30 p. m. at Boiling Spring Lakes Country Club. An nouncements are going out this week to individuals and business men. President Thomas stresses that . all professional and business men interested in the future of Bruns wick County are invited and urged to attend. The program will include reports of last year’s progress," adoption of by-laws, election of of ficers ; and a report on membership* committee. ’ The nominating committee is* composed of Foster Mintz, Bolivia,! chairman; Thurston Mintz, Shal-* lotte; Harris Thompson, Ocean Isle! Beach; C. D. Pickerell, Southport; and Dan L. Walker, Long Beach." Johnny Barbee, Yaupon, is in. charge of arrangements. President Thomas says that last year a few citizens of Brunswick* county proved that by coopera-! tion and organization much can be* accomplished. Twenty-four thous-* and colorful brochures were print-! ed at a cost of $3,300, all paid for.* Other important projects are un«! der consideration for this year. Board Rescinds I Stand On Games Friday Night Contests Will Go Back To Old Sche dule As Result Of Mon day Meeting The Brunswick County Board of Education backed down on its un tested ..“no rjight game ban" after,, pressure was applied at a special meeting in Southport Monday night. Meeting behind closed doors, the board lifted the ban after the Ice land school committee complained of the action requiring all games involving members of the Bruns wick County Conference to start at 4 p. m. The Leland group said the South port-Leland game should start at 7 p. m. because a homecoming program and barbecue supper had been scheduled previously. After the Leland delegation left, the board voted to permit South port and Leland and Bolivia and Waccamaw to play at night Fri day beginning at 7 p. m The mo tion for the action was made by Ernest M. McGee of Leland and was seconded by Homer Holden of Bolivia. The vote was not unani mous. “The board felt the purpose of, its previous action had been ac complished,” the minutes read. The board was referring to the action taken last week when a resolution requiring games played between Bolivia, Leland, Southport and Waccamaw be played in the afternoon beginning at 4 p. m. Last week’s action was taken because of recent unsportsmanship conduct displayed by spectators at county games. The board act ed to prevent county schools from being placed on probation by the North Carolina High School Ath letic Association and declared in eligible to compete in the state play-offs. When the board rescinded the Continued On Page 4 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, February 20, 0:56 A. M. 7:32 A. M. 1:23 P. M. 7:52 P. M. Friday, February 21, 2:02 A. M. 8:43 A. M. 2:31 P. M. 8:58 P. M. Saturday, February 22 3:10 A. M. 9:52 A. M. 3:40 P. M. 10:04 P. M. Sunday, February 23 4:16 A. M. 10:56 A. M. 4:46 P. M. 11:06 P. M. Monday, February 24 5:18 A. M. 11:53 A. M. 5:46 P. M. 12:02 P. M. Tuesday, February 25 6:14 A. M. 12:44 A. M. 6:42 P. M. Wednesday, February 26 7:05 A. M. 0:55 A. M. 7:32 P. M. 1:31 P. M.
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