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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 23 No. 45 10-Pages Today A Good Newspaper In A Good Community SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1964 ,1 5c A COPY Most of the News •V All The Time V' PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Construction In Final Phase At Telephone Coop f?r r.^lrnrijpri ^ The huge construction pro gram initiated last fall by At lantic Telephone Membership Corporation remains on schedule, reports Manager W. E. Bellamy, Jr. T. L. Dysard and Son, Inc., of Statesville, outside plant contrac tor, has completed all construct ion, except for several lines on wfhich construction will be delay ed pending the completion of road improvements. Dysard ex pects to complete all clean-up operations this week. Stromberg-Carlson, central of fice equipment contractor, has completed installation of switch ing equipment in the Shallotte and Bolivia exchanges and will complete installation of a portion of the Longwood equip ment this week. Lenkurt Electric Co., Inc., con tractors for providing trunk fac ilities between the various ex changes, completed installation of this equipment ten days ago. Western Electric installers plan to complete the installation of toll facilities May 17, barring un foreseen delays. Subscribers in the Exum area will be transferred from the Shal lotte to the Longwood exchange May 11-12. Several subscribers in the Calabash area will also be transferred to the Longwood ex change at that time. The new facilities in the Boli via and Shallotte offices will be cutover to operation May 17, if present schedules are maintained. This operation will necessitate changing many of the present subscriber numbers. More num ber changes in these two ex changes will follow as upgrading from the present l-,2-,4-, and 8 party system is changed to the planned 1-, 2-, and 4-party sys tem. After cutover of the Shallotte and Bolivia exchanges May 17, installation of central office equipment will commence in the • Golden Beach and Bailing Springy Lakes exchanges. 'Cutover of these exchanges to service is scheduled for July 19 after which upgrading will follow. Pinal installation of equipment in the Longwood exchange is tentatively scheduled for August “We realize these number changes throughout the system Within a relatively short period of time will • cause a certain am ount of inconvenience to every one,” said Manager Bellamy, * 'but we are trying in »*very way to make the transition as easy as possible under the circumst ances. The improvement in ser vice will more than compensate for the inconvenience.” MHtf M Of ‘-NEWS-1 TO GREENSBORO President G. W. Fisher and Moe Kirby will represent the Southport Jaycees at the state convention in Greensboro Friday and Saturday. SMORGASBORD SUPPER A smorgasbord supper will be served at Ocean View Methodist Church Friday evening, from 5:30 to 8’clock. Hie supper Is sponsored by the WSCS. SOFTBALL MEETING A meeting will be held in the court house at 7:30 p. m. Thurs day to organize a “slow pitch" summer softball league for adults in Southport. Everyone, regard less of age, is invited to attend the meeting. DANCE RECITAL The Bettey Cress dancers will appear in a dance recital at Southport High School auditor ium Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Proceeds will go to the school fund. I JAYCEE banquet New officers will be installed at a banquet meeting of the South port Jaycees Tuesday night. A “Jaycee of The Year’’ also will be named. The place of the ban quet has not yet been deter mined. ON HARBOR BOARD G. E. Henderson of Shallotte was appointed to membership on the Southport Small Boat Harbor Committee to represent the coun ty at a meeting of the County Commissioners Monday. He will serve a one-year term. General James Glore is the other coun ty member, being named for a two-year term several month ago. N i Record Bluefish HUGE—Capt. H. A. Schmidt, skipper of the Idle On IV, is shown here with the 8-lb., 10-oz. bluefish caught from his boat last week, setting a local record. -JpniLMackerel catches also have gotten off to a trood start. (Staff Photo by Allen) * _____V -V' \ 1 Good Sport Fishing Just as the fish were beginning 1 to bite last week, the bad weather and windstorm Sunday ruined what promised to be the earliest opening of the fishing season in quite some time. Boat captains are hopefull the season will be gin again this weekend. The largest blue fish ever land ed by a boat from Southport was •brought in Thursday. The 8 pound 10 ounce 30 inch long blue was landed by members of the Dave Haanpton party from Charleston, West Virginia. Fishing with Cap tain H. A. Schmidt, the party also had 32 kings and 3 bonita. On that same Thursday, Cap tain Hoyle Dosher had 36 kings to his credit. Both boats were fishing some two miles inshore from the Frying Pan Lightship. The season had opened a week before when several small - catches were made by Southport boats. This made the earliest opening of the fishing season in history. ■ “I think the fish showed up so early because of the warm spring we have had,” Mrs.; Hulan Watts said. ■But the bad weekend weather ruined the early opening.. Mrs. . Watts is hopeful fishing will be in full swing again by the week end. ‘‘I expect the weather to clear up by Saturday so the boats will be able to go out again and bring in the fish,” she added. Watershed Plan Look Scheduled A review of draft copies of watershed work plans with local sponsors of the Caw Caw Swamp Watershed will be conducted at a meeting Thursday at 8 p. m. in the Agriculture Building at Shal lutte High School. E. O. Graham, Assistant State Conservationist with Watersheds, along with Lacy Coates and other Soil Conservation Service person nel, will have charge of the pres entation of the work plan to the local sponsors. Recently from his Washington, D. C. office, Don Williams, Ad ministrator of the Soil Conserva tion Service, gave final approval for the Caw Caw Swamp Water shed Project. The sponsors of this project can expect planning assistance during May and June. It is desirable that all interested people attend this meeting and participate in this review. I-—-—_—__ Artist ART NEWTON Art Newton To Exhibit Work St. John’s Gallery opens two exhibits on Sunday afternoon, with a preview showing for Gal lery members and their guests from 4 to 6 o’clock. Showing in the South Gallery, a Collection of Fine Prints—A Tribute To Ambroise Vollard, and in the East and West Galleries, Paintings by Art Newton of Southport. These exhibits will open to the public on May 11. The more than 20 watercolors and one oil being shown by artist Art Newton mainly depict water front scenes realistically painted in pastel colors for which the artist is best known. Also among the watercolors are paintings of Wilmington buildings’ local gar dens and several figure paintings in miniature. The oil is a west ern N. C. Mountain scene. Art Newton is from Southport, where he was born in 1923. After high school, Newton attended the Central Academy of Commercial Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Ozen fant School of Modem Art and the Cartoonists Illustrators School, both in New York City. Newton has held several posi tions with New York firms and is Continued On Page Four Beach Citizens | Seeking Limit For Town Vote A group of 35 citizens of Long Beach voted in an open town meeting Monday night to make an effort to limit voting in town elections to permanent residents. Under a special dispensation from the North Carolina State 'Legislature, all property owners of Long Beach are eligible to cast ballots for town commissioners in town elections by mailed bal lot. ‘Spokesmen ®or xh« citizens group, which adopted the name, The Long Beach Citizens Com mittee, cited cases where the owner of a lot purchased by mail voted in Long Beach elections for several years before ever setting foot inside the town limits. The citizens group also expres sed dissatisfaction with the fact that 4 of the 6 members of the town board are not permanent residents of the town. The group elected a four-man "committee to investigate steps to be taken toward doing away with (mailed ballots and requiring members of the city government to be residents. The committee consists of R. D. Price, chairman; J. L. Hahn; James Kyle and Mrs. Elizabeth Az chary. The committee is to report its findings to a meetings of the Long Beach Citizen Committee on the first Monday in June. County Women Helping Preyer Three Brunswick county wo men have been appointed to the Women’s Committee for Preyer in preparation for “Preyer Week in Brunswick County”, May 18-22, the Raleigh campaign head quarters announced Tuesday. Mrs. Eugene Fullwood of Southport, Mrs. Nelson Bennett of Shallotte and Mrs. R. C. Hol mes of Leland were named to the county campaign staff of Rich ardson Preyer, Democratic can didate for governor. County Campaign Manager Kirby Sullivan announced that a reception will be held for Mrs. Preyer on May 19 at the South port Community Building. The reception will be held during the evening hours. Preyer himself will be in Bruns wick county on May 22 from 8:45 until 12 noon. He will visit the beach area, Leland, Bolivia and Shallotte where he will make his major address. Mrs. Fullwood is a member of the Democratic executive com mittee, vice-chairman of South port precinct No. 2, vice-pre sident of the YDC and public re lations chairman of the county Democratic women’s club. In addition, she is active in civic, community and religious affairs. She is the mother of three chil dren. Mrs. Bennett is a former school teacher at Waccamaw, an active member of the 1st Baptist Church in Shallotte and a bus iness woman. She has three children and grandchildren. Mrs. Holmes is the former Re gistrar at Leland, a business wo man and active in the Leland Baptist Church. She has Wo children and grandchildren, j Freak Storm Strikes Coast Of I Brunswick Sunday Morning Grandstand Demolished WRECKED—BCT Coach Anthony Davis is shown standing in front of the grandstand at the school’s athletic field after it had been toppled over and demol ished by the force of a heavy windstorm Sunday morning. (Staff Photo by Allen) Bolivian City Seeks Cultural Exchange Here Ad plan to exchange informat ion? between Bolivia, N. C., and La Paz, Bolivia, has been pro posed by an organization sim ilar to'the jaycees in the South American country. Vice President C. James Cook of the Bolivia-North American Business Council sent a letter to the North Carolina Travel De partment proposing the exchange of information toy the two Boli vias. The letter has been for warded to the Bolivia Jaycees. The South American group proposed exchanging publicity infornation, cultural objects, commercial and economical infor mation, and gifts at first. They suggested student exchanges in the future. One of the ideas made by the La Paz group was to have an ex change fair where the South American group could display products, handicrafts and goods made in Bolivia, N. C. The local Bolivia could stage a fair with products, handicrafts and goods from the South American coun try. “These are merely some ideas but we do wish to show our en thusiasm in arranging a get-to gether with our sister city of Bolivia, N. C.”, Vice President Cook said in his letter The aims of the Business Coun cil which is an organization simi lar to the Jaycees, are to establish Continued On Page 4 TIME and TIDE It was May §,*, 1959, and Roy Robinson was elected mayor of Southport while Johnnie Vereen was the only survivor from the Board • of Aldermen re-named. Senator S. Bunn Prink in troduced a bill to let Shallotte citizens vote on whether to have a liquor store. Roney Cheers edged W. J. McLamb, Jr., by two votes for the office of mayor of Shallotte. Ground creaking ceremonies were held for the Yaupon Methodist Church. John Burns of Shallotte won the county spelling bee. Mrs. Katherine White of Shallotte was the county teacher of the year. It was May 5, 1954, and phenomenal early season catches of king mackerel were made by parties fishing out of Southport. BCT had held its annual May Day festival Friday with a parade through Southport. The Health Department reported that 357 children attended pre-school clinics itf the county. G. W. Fisher, Jr., of Southport was home on lea® from the Navy. A beautification project, under J. M. King, ^’as underway at Bolivia school. It was May 4i school superintend elected chairman working on the Southport ivr< to advance to (1949, and J. T. Denning was re-named county fnt while Sam J. Frink bf Shallotte was the Board of Education. Volunteers were A' Girl Scout Camp Pretty Pond, to play Atlantic High School for the right District 2 baseball finals. A new fire truck Continued On Page Four Democrats Plan County Convention -a; Candidate # DR. I. BEVERLY LAKE, can didate for the -Democratic nom ination for governor, will be in Brunswick county tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon and part of Friday. Superior Court Tern Concluded Several cases were completed during the civil term of Bruns wick County Superior Court last week in Southport with Judge E. Maurice Braswell presiding. In the case of the woman who drove her automobile into a bar ber shop in Shallotte entitled An drew B. Gray versus Lena Gris sett Gore and Grover R. Gore, the jury awarded Gray $12,000 for injuries suffered in the acci dent. But both parties and the court thought the amount exces sive and reduced it to $10,000. The Gores -were taxed court cost. In another case growing out of the accident, Andrew B. Gray, Jr. was awarded $4,000 by the jury. Again both parties thought the amount excessive and reduced it, to $3,500. The Gores were taxed court. 1 In still another case, Jerry Mal colm Gray and the Gores agreed to compromise. Gray was awarded $500 and the Gores were taxed court cost. In the matter of the will of Raleigh Varnum, deceased, a conflict arose 'between Nina V. Cox, Doris V. McKeny, Norlee Varnum, Roy O. Varnum, Fran ces Louis Varnum Hewett, and Sherman Leon Varnum, and Dale Varnum and Connie Varnum. Both parties admitted that they were not satisfied whether the paper-writing was the last will Continued On Page Four ►' ' The Brunswick County Derh-. ocratic convention will be held at Bolivia High School Saturday at 2 p. m., reports Party Chairman Kirby Sullivan, who will not seek re-election. All candidates running for of fice on the Democrtic ticket will be given an opportunity to speak. Senator Carl Meares and Sankey Robinson, both of Columbus County and candidates for the Democratic nomination for state senate, are expected to be pre sent for the convention. In addition, spokesmen for the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor will be heard. Delegates to the state conven tion in Raleigh on May 20-21 will be elected Saturday. Before the convention, at 1:30 p. m., the county executive com mittee will meet to elect new of ficers. The group, composed of the chairman and vice chairman of every precinct in the county, will elect a chairman, vice chair man and secretary - treasurer. Chairman Sullivan said he would not be a candidate for re-election. He said that J. B. Ward has been elected chairman of the Longwood precinct, Mrs. Geneva Boyd vice-chairman, Mrs. Eula Browning secretary, and W. B. Nye and John A. Russ, members. Funds Approved At Long Beach Mayor E. P. Middleton announ ces that Long Beach’s application to the Urban Renewal Administ ration for planning funds has been approved. These funds will be expended under a contract with Commun ity Planners, a division of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development. The total cost of the planning projects will be $13,650 over a two year period. The federal grant is for $9,100 with the town paying the balance of $4,550 over a two year period. The contract with Community Planners is for base mapping, land use study and development plan, sub-division regulations and zoning ordinance, street nome clature and house numbering. John A. Donnelly, planner with the Division of Community Plan ning will meet with the newly ap pointed Planning Board May 18 to discuss the contract signed by the Board of Town Commission ers with the State organization. The Planning Board is com posed of Harold H. Bird, chair man, O. G. “Nick” Coleman, Willard F. Ferrell, Bill Lowe and F. O. May. J ■ ' ' ■ Winds of hurricane force hit the coast of Brunswick Sunday morning but left remarkably little damage in the wake of gusts up to 100-mph officially re corded at nearby Oak Island Coast Guard Station. The freak storm hit the peak of its fury about mid-morning aa wind-lased rain kept many Sun day worshipers in the shelter of their homes. On the waterfront there was a scene of busy act ivity for persons concerned for the safety of boats of all de scriptions. It was a bad time, too, for members of the emergency crew, in the electrical department of the City of Southport, kept busy, with broken poles, falling limbs and tangled wires. Electric cur- , rent was off for three hours at one stretch. ' No injuries, were reported and ' the most serious property dam age resulted at Brunswick Court-' ' ty Training School where a new ! grandstand was toppled over by • the wind. Loss was estimated at about $3,500. There was some roof damage in the area, and at • least five houses at the beach ! sustained serious loss from this • cause. About 3-inches of rain fell during the storm. . - Five northbound yachts took refuge from the storm in South port Yacht Basin, and only one • of them made a brief attempt t® . venture out upon the rough • waves of tthe Cape Fear river. ! The skipper soon headed back to safety. The wind was out of the north- • east, allowing the trees and other 1 windbreaks to cut down the full force of the blow. Where the full sweep of the wind was un broken, it reached great velocity. Waves on the river reached 8-10 feet in height, while outside waves were cresting at 80 feet. Although the height of the storm had passed before noon, high winds continued throughout y'? the afternoon and into the night. So did the rain. 1 Monday morning dawned bright and fair and the city force spent most of the day cleaning up limbs and other debris which were the aftermath of the storm. Contestant MISS JEANNE BROWN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Brown of Southport, will repre sent Southport in the Strawberry ‘ Princess contest in Chadboum Friday night. 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, May 7, 3:33 A. M. 10:15 A. M. 4:04 P. M. 10:40 P. M. Friday, May 8, > 4:30 A. M. n:07 A. M. 4:00 P. M. 11:37 P. M. Saturday, May 9, 5:24 A. M. H:57 A. M. 5:54 P. M. Sunday, May 10, 6:17 A. M. 0:31 A. M. 6:47 P. M. 12:46 P. M Monday, May 11, 7:11A.M. 1:24 A.M. 7:40 P. M. 1:35 P. M. Tuesday, May 12, 8:04 A. IVt. 2:15 A. M. 8:32 P. M. 2:24 P, M. Wednesday, May 13, 8:58 A. M. 3:09 A. M. 9:25 P. M. '3:14 P. M.