The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT Most of the News All The Time A .Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume 24 No. 3 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT. N. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1964 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY To Hold Meeting To Discuss Plan To Extend City A decision to extend the city limits and the approval of the 1964-65 budget highlighted a meeting of the Southport Board of Aldermen at the city hall Thursday night. The board voted unanimously to call a public hearing on the question of extending the city limits to the Sawdust trail. The proposed area for annexation in cludes one block of each side of Highway 211 to Blake Builders Supply. The public hearing will be held August 27 at the court house at 7:30 p.. m. Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., pointed out the city must furnish the new area with the same ser vices that the majority of resi dents are now receiving within two years. City Auditor W. L. Aldridge said the area involved was listed on the county tax books at a pros pective return of $1,400. "The new residents should save in fire in surance what they will pay in city taxes,” Mayor Tomlinson de clared. The motion to hold the public hearing on the question was made by Crawford Kourk, seconded by ■Fred Spencer, and unanimously passed. The proposed 1964-65 city bud get of $248,000 was approved by the board on second reading by Auditor Aldridge. The present tax Tate of $1.30 will remain the same. The motion for the action was made by Harold Aldridge, second ed by J. A. Gilbert and unani mously passed. Because of the success of the Fourth of July festivities, the board decided to begin work im mediately to make the celebra tion bigger and better in 1965. It was decided to appoint one mem ber from the following civic groups to help plan the event: Lions club, Daughters ot Amer ica, Jaycees, Woman’s Club Junior Woman’s club. the South- ~ ■port, Live Oak and Woodbine Garden Clubs, and the Negro Citi zens League. The city officials and the board will serve in an advisory capacity to the commit tee. A contest to select a slogan for the 1965 city license plates was organized by the board. Prizes of $15, $10 and $5 will be offered to anyone, regardless of where they live, who submits the best slogan embracing the marina concept. The action was taken so the former slogan, “North Car olina’s Only Natural Harbor”, which is 10 years old, could be changed. All entries must be re ceived by the city not later than August 12 at 12 noon. The judges for the contest, ap pointed by Mayor Tomlinson, in clude the folowing presidents of Southport civic clubs: William Powell, Jaycees; Mrs. Tommy Kirby, Junior Woman’s Club: and Mrs. Tom Gilbert, Daughters of Amenca. In connection with the new city tags, Police Chief Herman Strong suggested that the name South port appear in larger type. The board decided to hold a full dis cusion on the matter at the Au gust meeting. The motion for the action was made by Alderman Gilbert, seconded by Alderman Rourk and unanimously adopted. The board held a long discus sion on the problem or children riding bicycles on the city side walks before deciding to im pound the bikes of violators. Chief Strong said he had warned violators but to no avail since they could not be prosecuted in court ■because of their age. The board ordered Chief Strong to impound (Continued on Page «) r Mb Of •-NEWS-1 FLORIDA TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parker and children left Sunday for a week long trip to Florida. republican club The Brunswick County Repub lican club will meet Friday night at 8 o'clock to elect new officers, Party Chairman H. L. Willetts announced Tuesday. CUT-OVER postponed Earl Bellamy, manager of the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation, said today that the cut-over scheduled for Sunday, July 19, for the Holden Beach Ex change has been postponed until August 1®. “Problems brought about in coordination the read iness of some of the new facilities have necessitated this delay,” Bellamy said. Clearing Land For Airport % W mm gg MTU 1- -v -T* ^ ^ ',. CLEARING—Bulldoziers from Lincoln Construction Company were at work this (Wednesday) morning clearing the site of the Brunswick County Airport, yphich is to be located west of the Beach Highway near the Inland Waterway bridge. (Staff Photo by Allen) . Here In Brunswick Constructing Airport Construction of the new Bruns wick County airport, which is expected to he completed within 60 days, began today (Wednes day) after ground breaking cere monies at the site near Long Beach Monday. The facility, which will be lo cated on a 119-acre site alongside NC 133, has been approved by the Federal Aviation Agency for ; traffic up through twin engine plans. The money for the airport was raised 'by a $43,000 federal grant and matching contributions from the county, its towns and residents. ' Chairman H. A. Templeton, Jr. announced that more than $86,000 has been received by the County Airport Commission in money and pledges for the new facility. The commission has been work ing (for an airport for the past three years. Contracts for con struction were signed more than a year ago. “inability to obtain matching funds and property nec essitated the delay”, Chairman Templeton stated. The chairman predicted at the ground breaking ceremonies that the new airport will help bring more people to Brunswick and boost industrialization in the county. The facility is to have a 32,000 foot sod landing strip 250 feet wide running north-east and south-west. The airport will serve the county’s beaches, Southport, Boiling Spring Lakes and nearby area. F. H. Swain, outgoing chair man of the county commission ers, drove a post-hole digger into the wet sand at the site signal ing Lincoln Construction Co. workers to begin preparing the site. . Chairman Templeton said the construction firrii holds ,a $43,000 contract for site, preparation. Re mainder of hinds available for the facility were used to buy prop erty and to pay legal and engi neering fees. Donald Sneeden, owner of the construction .company, declared Continued On Page S Students Loans Now Available Persons unable to further their education because of finances may seek help through a student loan administered by the North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Cor poration. A rural resident of any age may pevrsue any undergard uate course of study deemed suit able by the corporation. Loans will not exceed $1,000 per school year and will bear simple interest at the rate of 4 percent per year from the date the course of study is completed. If a stu dent discontinues the course of study before its completion, inter est will accrue from the date of such discontinuance. Repayment of the loan will be gin upon completion of the course and will be made in monthly in stallments. The period of repay ment shall not exceed 5 years. 'Each loan student will be requir ed to sign a promissory note for the amount of the loan. For application forms and rules Continued On Page 5 Miss Brunswick Enjoys Pageant Although Miss Brunswick Coun ty, Carolyn Minton, did not win the Miss North Carolina title, 'she said she thoroughly enjoyed the pageant last week. “I do not feel badly about los ing,” Miss Minton said. “I was just one of the 79 girls who did n’t win. I had a real good time in Raleigh and would not trade the experience for anything.” She said she met- the new Miss North Carolina, Sharon Finch, the former Miss North Carolina, Ma ria Fletcher, a former Miss Am erican from this state, and the present Miss American. “X talked with Miss American on several occasions,” she added. Miss Minton who is me daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Min ton of Southport, said she did not have an opportunity to see the pageant until it came on televi sion Saturday night. After each girl performed, she would spend the rest of the evening in the basement of the auditorium with the other girls. They only got a chance to see the event when it was on television Saturday night. “I met a lot of the other girls while we were together down stairs,” she added. All the girls rode in convertibles for a parade in Raleigh Thursday. It rained that afternoon and Miss Brunswick County did not have a umbrella “I got soaking wet,” she said with a smile. “The rain was running down my face!” While in Raleigh Miss Minton received encouragement from people back home. The Shallotte Jaycees sent her two corsages and several county residents sent telegrams. The contestants met a hard schedule while at the pageant. They went to bed after 2 a. m. and got up before 6 a. m. They' were kept on the move all day long. “When we returned to Southport Sunday afternoon I went straight to bed,” she admit ted. “I got up for supper but - Continued On Page 5 Beer-Wine Vote At Long Beach A beer and wine vote will be held at Long Beach August 28, according to Town Manager Dan L. Walker. The qualified voters of Long Beach will decide whether to al low beer and wine to be sold for “on premises consumption” at grade hotels, motels and res taurants only and “off premises consumption,, by licensees in the town. Manager Walker said the reg istration books will be open Au gust 1 until August 18 and will be at the Town Hall the first Saturdays of that month. •Mrs. Charline Johnson has been named registrar while Miss Ray Venable and Heber 0. Clark judges. GROVER A. GORE Brunswick Man Chips Official Grover A. Gore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grover R. Gore of Shallotte, was recently named an officer, Secretary, of the Chip’s Franch ise System, Incorporated, by its Board •of Directors. j Gore is a graduate of Shallotte High School, a graduate of North Carolina State College, Raleigh, and a 1963 graduate of the School of Law of Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem. The Chip’s Company, with its home office in Rocky Mount, operates a chain of drive-in rest Contiiiued On Page Four __L j Church Music Week Now Going On At Assembly Church Music Week, featuring nightly concerts, is toeing ob served toy more than 700 Baptists this week at the North Carolina Baptist Assembly, according to Manager Fred Smith. He said the public is invited to attend the quality musical recit als at the Assembly each night this week, at 8:15 o’clock. James Clyburn, a native of Charleston, S. C., will present a piano recital Thursday night. He is a member of the musical fac ulty at Meredith College in Ra leigh. On Friday night, a German re quiem by Johannes Brannes will be presented by the Church Music Conference choir conduct ed by Donald Plott, director of music at Davidson College. Miss Virginia Babikian, a soprano who conducted a concert at the As sembly Monday night, will take part in the event. More than 700 Baptists in North Carolina, representing all age groups, are participating in the Church Music Week under the di rection of Music Secretary Joseph Stroud of the Baptist State Con vention. During morning study periods the campers "are learning about Christian Hymnody, conducting, singing, hymn playing, music in worship choir work and Bible study. In the afternoon, choirs are formed by age groups for practice for the Friday night con cert. Rev. Charles C. Coffey of the First Baptist Church in Kanna polis is serving as the conference pastor this week. Fisheries Group Meets Saturday The commercial fisheries com mittee of the - 8tateBoardOf Cha se rvaton and Development Will meet at Morehead City Saturday for discussions of matters relat ing to the commercial fishing in dustry. The committee will start its meeting at 10 a. m. in the hearing room of the Division of Commer cial Fisheries at the old Section Base. All commercial fishermen wish ing to be heard on any matter relating to eommerical fishing is invited to be present. Eric W. Rodgers of Scotland Neck is committee chairman. Other committee members are: Ernest E. Parker, Jr., Southport; Lorimer W. Midgett, Elizabeth City; Luther W. Gurkin, Jr., Ply mouth; Dr. John Dees, Burgaw. The meeting of the commer cial fisheries committee will be held prior to the summer meet ing of the State Board of Conser vation and Development, which will be held the following Monday and Tuesday. The Board’s Monday sessions will be held in historic Fort Mac on, a part of Fort Macon State Park. It is located across Bogue Sound from Morehead City and Beaufort. Director Robert L. Stallings, Jr. of the State Department of Con servation and Development, and Dr. David A. Adams, State Fish eries Commissioner and head of the C&D Department’s Division of Commercial Fisheries, are slated to attend the meeting of the Commercial Fisheries Com mittee. TIME and TIDE ■.......*. It was July 15, 1959, and Chaplain Thomas S. Clarkson, : ’a retired Army Major was named priest of the St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church in Southport and the Northwest Church. Two Columbus county men were killed Sunday in an automobile accident near Ash. There was a local movement urging Governor Luther Hodges to appoint Representative James C. Bowman to the State Highway Commission. The Board of Commissioners pre sented the 1959-60 budget with a tax rate of $1.20, the same as! last year. It was July 14, 1954, and Edward B. Taylor of Rutherford ton won $10 for submitting the slogan, “North Carolina’s Only Natural Harbor”, for the 1955 Southport city license plates. It was announced that General Mark Clark would be coming to Southport in the fall to fish. Coroner John G. Caison was seriously ill in the hospital. County Sanitary Officer Willis C. Sellers resigned after serving for two years in the post. Douglas H. Hawes was elected presi dent of the Bolivia Lions Club. Southport boats were making large catches of fish. It was July 13, 1949, and Captain John Potter had landed more menhaden fish than any other captain in Southport, al Continued On Page Four Lions International Elects Dr. Rourk A Shallotte doctor received one of the highest honors in Lions International at the groups con vention in Toronto, Canada, last Week. Dr. M. Henderson Rourk was elected to membership on the board of directors of Lions In ternational Saturday. Dr. Rourk, a counsellor of Lions International and a former East ern North Carolina district gov ernor, will serve a two-year term on the international board as a director. He is the second Tar Heel Lion to be elected to board member ship in the past several years, the other being Wallace I. West of Wilmington. Prior to the elect ion of West, John L. (Jack) Stick ley of Charlotte, served a term as director and then was elected third international vice-president. From there Stickley advanced successively to become the only North Carolina Lion ever to reach the presidency of Lions International. Almost 300 Tar Heel Lions attended the convention to boost the candidacy of Dr. Rourk and Roy A. Sandlin of Wrightsville Beach, also a counsellor of Lions International, served as camp aign manager. DR. M. H. ROURK Dr. Rourk, who was seriously ill for several weeks earlier this year, was able to attend the In ternational Convention in Toro Continued On Page Four Bids Received For Small Boat Basin Resigns REV. MARK OWENS Local Minister The Rev. Mark Owens has ten dered his resignation as pastor of Southport Baptist Church, effec tive August 9. This announcement was made at the close of worship services Sunday morning and came as a shock to members of his congre gation. He has served for the past five years as pastor of the local church and Is held in high es teem. In his announcement the Rev. Mr. Owens said that he has ac cepted a call to the Baptist Church at Hudson, a town in pied mont North Carolina in the Hick ory-(Lenoir area. The Rev. Mr. Owens has been active in interests outside his church. He is moderator of the Brunswick Baptist Assocaiton and is a member of the General Board of the Baptist State Con vention. He has served as a member of the board of trustees for Dosher Memorial Hospital and has been active in the Bruns Continued On Page S Aubrey Hickman At Long Beach A deputy with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s department has recently been hired as a patrol man at Long Beach, Police Chief Clay Jordan announced Monday. Aubrey Hichman, 36, of Boli via, has been employed at Long Beach to replace Myron Helms as a patrolman. Helms recently resigned to accept a position at the Long Beach Fishing Pier. Hickman, a veteran law-enfor cement officer, has been employ ed by the Sheriff's Department for several years. He assumed his new position on July 1. Hickman plans to move his family to Long Beach as soon as their new home is completed, On June 30 at Wilmington bids were opened for two projects, totaling one million dollars by the North Carolina State Ports Authority. " Bids on three phases of con struction work on the proposed small craft harbor at Southport were opened. Electrical bids were ...held up because of only two bids...,. The RtW ’resqufWsthree.*-''-.'-««« - Low bid on dredging site west of Southport was $102,257, by the Eastern Dredging Corporation of New Bern. Miller Building Corporation of Wilmington was low for bulk head and pier work at $199,313., and site improvement at $30, 635.50. Executive Director James W. Davis noted that apparent low bidders for the new ports office building was T. A. Loving Com pany of Goldsboro with a base bid of $395,850; electrical work was $52,321 by Paul F. Turner Company of Wilmington. Goodyear Plumbing Company of Wilmington was low on plum bing at $10,823, and Southerland Elevator Company of Greens boro with $9,679. Totals-$535,000 higher than the original estim ate of $500,000 but still within budgeted funds for the work. The two-story office building on Burnet Blvd, near the entr ance to the State Port Terminals is to have 30,000 square feet of floor space and to be paid for by* a bank loan, amortized through rental to port-related activities. Davis, and Andy Jackson, Chief Engineer, for N. C. State Ports said they hoped work could be gin at both Wilmington and Southport before August 1. Leland Boy Is On Missing List A 16-year-old Leland boy has been missing from his home since last Wednesday and attempts to find him have proved to be futile. Kenneth Messer, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Messer, disappear ed from his Leland home about 1 p. m. Wednseday. No word has been heard from him since then. When last seen Messer, his mother said, was wearing a yel low shirt and black trousers. He has about $10 in cash at the time. Young Messer is five-feet, nine inches tall, weights 165-pound and wears his black hair in a flattop style. The Civil Air Patrol units at Brunswick and Columbus coun ties and Boiling Spring Lakes were called into the search Fri day night by Sheriff E. V. Leon ard. Under the leadership of Henry Carter, Elisha Sellers and Anson Lewis, commanders of the three units, the CAP members searched the wooded area near the junction of US 17 and NC 74-76 all day Saturday and Sun day morning, but no clues were found. Mrs. Messer said her son had been dispondent since being den ied a driver’s license. She describ ed him as being “well-behaved but sometimes withdrawn’. New Name For Negro School In Southport A decision to change the name of BCT highlighted a meeting erf the Brunswick County Board of Education Tuesday in Southport. The board unanimously voted to drop the word training from the name Brunswick County Training School in Southport. The name of the school will be (Brunswick County High School. The board decided to give the school children’s insurance cov erage for 1964-65 to Nationwide on a unanimous vote. The motion for the action was made by A. J. Dosher and was seconded by Homer Holden. The insurance rate calls for $2 per student. Football players in grades 10, 11 and 12 will have to pay $8 and players in the 9th ahut below will be charged $5. Standard Life and Casuality of Rock Hill, S. C., had handled the insurance for the past three years. Superintendent A. W. Taylor announced the drivers education summer program had been cut back during the month of July. ■He said the full program would be resumed in August if addition al funds are made available. “The regular program will re sume in the fall”, he said. Contracts for the folloing teach* ers were approved by the board: Grace B. Payne and Claude Mel vin Boyd, Leland; Mrs. A. W. Taylor and Mary Sellers, South port, and William E. Simmons, Shallotte. The board decided to sell the old 1952 % ton Chevrolet pick up at public auction. The following students were given permission to transfer to New Hanover schools: H. L. Summerlin, Donald R. Summerlin, Karen Diane Paden, Robert Houston Field, William Harry Simmons, Clara A. Kopp, Retta Ann Phelps, LeRoy Brew, Eulis Alexander Willis. Cases Reported The rising number of cases of spotted Fever has put North Carolina second only to Virginia in the incidence of this acute communicable disease, according to Dr. John R. Black, Brunswick County’s Health Director. Two deaths in the state have been re ported already this year with the season barely begun. There wete four deaths last year out of the 34 reported cases. Spotted Fever, sometimes re ferred to as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever because of its orig inal diagnosis in the Rocky Moun- t tain states, is often misjudged as measles or German measles. I t is an acute communicable dis- ; ease characterized by fever, headache, muscle pains, and a | rash. The rash generally begins t on the hands and feet and rapidly progresses to cover the entire body. In severe untreated cases, | delirium, convulsions, and death may occur. ; The organism that causes this \ disease (Rickettsia) is very simi lar to a virus and is transmitted 1 by the bite of the dog tick. The * disease is most common on the i eastern seaboard, especially in } North Carolina, Virginia, Mary land, and Tennessee. The largest < percentage ot cases occur in the months from July to September when the ticks are most prevalent ; and when people spend more time out of doors. Almost three Continued On Page Four j 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, July 16, 1:06 A. M. 7:34 A. M. 1:52 P. M. 8:07 P. M. Friday, July 17 1:55 A. M. 8:24 A. M. 2:45 P. M. 9:04 P. M. Saturday, July 18 2:47 A. M. 9:15 A. M. 3:35 P. M. 9:59 P. M.i Sunday, July 19 3:38 A. M. 10:05 A. M, 4:25 P. M. 10:51 P. M. Monday, July 20 4:28 A. M. 10:53 A. M. 5:13 P. M. 11:40 P. M.{ Tuesday, July 23 5:16 A. M. 11:40 A. M. 5:58 P. M. Wednesday, July 22 6:02 A. M. 0:26 A. M. 6:41 P. M. 12:24 P. M.

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