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Volume 24
No. 4
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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1964
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Projection Of Southport Small Boat Harbor
CONSTRUCTION—Work is scheduled to begin
this week on the Small Boat Harbor at Southport, a
$500,000 project of the State Ports Authority. Above
is shown an artist’s rendering of this project, which
is expected to be completed by next spring.
Southport Man
Presents Local
Jaycee Project
The Southport Junior Chamber
-u Coipmerce’s work in the field
,^"5"”of">cO'mTnunit'y 'devefopment"' rep-“
resented the state of North Caro
lina at the Jaycee National Com
munity Development Siminar at
Norman, Oklahoma, this week.
During the meeting, judges will
select the national winner in the
field of community development
from the 50 state entries from the
United States.
Thomas S. Bowmer is repre
senting the Southport Jaycees at
the siminar. He arrived in Okla
homa Sunday after a plane trip
from Wilmington. He expects to
return to Southport sometimes
Thursday.
Bowmer was selected to attend
the meetings after G. W. Fisher,
the former club president, an
nounced that he would be unable
to make the trip to Oklahoma.
The state Jaycee organization
is paying the full expenses of
Southport’s representative, Bow
mer, at the national siminar.
The Southport club won first
place in the field of community
development in competition with
all the other Jaycee Clubs in
North Carolina at the State Con
vention in Greensboro in early
May. In addition to a trophy, the
club won the right to represent
stat*> at tha national mppHnirf?
In order to win the state award,
the club had to submit a four
page report describing the com
munity development projects the
group had worked on during the
past year.
The Southport Junior Chamber
of Commerce has published an
Industrial Brochure; helped es
tablish an Industrial Resources
Development commission in the
county; worked to have ferry ser
vice established between South
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Mk Of
lnews
OFFICE CLOSED
Tiie Shallotte driver’s license
examination office in Shallott
will be closed Tuesday in orde
for J. L. Sessoms to attend an i:
service training school.
BAKE SALE
Members of the WSCS of Trir
ity Methodist Church will spor
sor a bake sale featuring horn
cakes, pies, cookies and candj
Saturday morning next door to th
_ post office in Southport.
f§| ACCEPTS POSITION
David Dixon, non of Mr. an
Mrs. Louis Dixon of Southpor
recently accepted a position wit
, , the Driver’s License division c
' the Department 0f Motor Veh
eles. He is presently undergoin
training in Raleigh before assigi
ment.
Construction On
Boat Basin Ready
James W. Davis, executive '
director of the State Ports Auth
•xu-ity, announcecd ~thia.«~ . week
that work is scheduled to' begin
at once on the Small Boat Harb
or at Southport, a $500,000 pro
ject.
Davis said that contracts have
•been awarded for dredging, bulk
head and pier construction, site
preparation and electrical im
provements. Contract for erect
ion of the adminisration building
will be let at a later date, Davis
said. He estimated that the pro
ject should be complete and the
facilities ready for use by March
1, 1965. He expressed the belief
that some facilities may be us
able prior to completion of the
over-all project.
Plans call for 110 boat berths,
parking area, launching ramp
and washing rack, boat lift well,
easy access to the highway and
other feature which will make
this a modem facility in every
respect.
“We of the State Ports Auth
ority are proud to get this pro
ject underway," Davis said. “I
am completely confident of its
success as a sound project for
out authority. I also believe that
its establishment here will have
an important bearing on the fut
ure economic development of this
entire area and that it will be
an important factor in the econ
omy of Brunswick county.”
Storm Damage
Loans Available
Emergency loans have been
made available through the
Farmers Home Administration
for farmers of Brunswick County,
announced Rep. Alton Lennon.
This action was taken, accord
ing to Lennon, because of exten
sive and losses to crops, particu
larly to tobacco, as the result of
several hail, rain and wind
storms during the past few
weeks.
These loans are being made
available by the Department of
Agriculture through June 30, 1965,
1 Lennon pointed out.
; Jerry T. Murray, county su
' pervisor of FHA, said the loans
1 are available to farmers who are
temporarily unable to obtain
credit they need from other
sources. Loans can be made to
purchase feed, seed, fertilizer,
living expense and other items re
3 quired to continue normal oper
, ations, lie said.
3 Murray pointed out that loans
can also be made to replace ma
chinery or buildings damaged by
the storms.
1 These loans will be scheduled
;, for repayment when income
a from crops or livestock financed
f is normally received,” Murray
said.
% The interest rate will be three
i- per cent, according to Murray,
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r
Shallotte Will
Enter Grab Derby
The Shallotte River Association
has unanimously decided to hold
a crab derby in the county to
the state event at a meeting in
Shallotte Monday night.
The crap race will be held on
the main street in Shallotte early
in August. The winner will rep
resent the county in the State
Crab Derby later in the month.
The group also asked Mayor
Roney Cheers and the town board
to investigate the possibilities of
establishing a food processing co
op in Shallotte. They suggested
that the board work with the
county Resources and Develop
ment Commission and report
back at the next meeting.
A1 Martin Is New
Red Cross Head
At a meeting of the Brunswick
County Chapter of the American
Red Cross on Wednesday night,
at which Mrs. Susan T. King pre
sided, the following officers and
chairmen were elected:
Chapter Chairman, A1 Martin;
vice-chairman, Mrs. A. P. Henry,
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Martin; Disaster chairman, Ma
jor Leslie It. Bellows; First Aid
Chairman, P. O. Leggett; Gray
Lady Chairman, Mrs. Charles E.
Blake; Home Service Chairman
(temporary), Mrs. Robert L.
Jones; Nursing Chairman, Mrs.
Virginia Walton; Medical Advis
or, Dr. L. G. Brown.
The following were named to
the board of directors: Lt. Col.
Ralph Caldwell, Waccamaw;
Pearson E. Dubar, Sr., Shallotte;
Mrs. A. H. Cromer, Long Beach;
R. C. Nicolson, Mrs. Warden
Lewis, Rev. Robert R. Childs,
Jr., Mrs. Elizabeth Young, Wil
liam Warnett, all of Southport.
Following the election of offi
cers, chairman Martin took
charge of the meeting. He an
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Jury List For
Superior Court
A group of 40 Brunswick coun
ty citizens were selected to serve
during the civil term of Bruns
wick County Superior Court be
ginning August 10th with Judge
James C. Farthing of Lenoir pre
siding.
The jury was named at Mon
day’s meeting of the Brunswick
County Board of Commissioners.
Citizens selected for jury duty
Continued On Page Four
Fish Farm Plan
Introduced By
Southport Man
The Board of Conservation and
Development heard a South
”port"'man’s request for
farm ‘pilot project in Brunswick
county at the group’s quarterly
meeting in Morehead City this
week.
Lewis Hardee made his pre
sentation of fish farming for salt
water species Sunday. He sug
gested that the shoreline
of Brunswick county would be an
excellent place for the experimen
tal project.
Under Hardee’s proposal, the
creeks along the shore line would
be dredged to create a natural
nursery for salt water fish. The
dredging would prevent the
creeks from drying up during
low t.iflp. urul nrnt<w*l fhp crntirimr
fish and other marine life, he de
clared. The marshland with its
seagrass would provide additional
protection and a source of food,
he pointed out.
Fishing in the nursery areas
would be prohibited by law, under
the plan submitted by the Bruns
wick county shrimp dealer.
Hardee suggested financing the
program with state funds and
possible matching money from
the federal government. “If the
program pays off, we could close
other areas along the coast for
nursery purposes,” he added.
The advisory board to the C&D
also recommended new dates for
the oyster season. The present
season runs from October 15 to
March 15.
A law allowing shrimping for
personal use proposed by Car
teret Rep. Thomas Bennett and
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Southport Area
Contributes To
Red Cross Fund
Southport and beach area citi
zens and business firms contri
buted more than $1,000 to the
Brunswick County Chapter of the
American Red Cross during a
fund raising drive, Area Chair
man A1 Martin reported Monday.
The drive in the Southport
area netted $1,026.94, with the
Negro citizens and groups giving
$315 of the total amount.
Area Chairman Martin said he
can not tell how the drive is
progressing in other areas be
cause the local chairmen have
not reported.
Mrs. Civella Lewis was the top
collector for the drive with
$169.11, while R. E. Nicolson had
$120 and Mrs. A. H. Cromer
$81.75.
Other high contributions includ
ed Southport professional organ
izations, $101.63, Negro house-to
house canvas, $78.34 and Negro
basketball game, $66.75.
The $1,026.94 collected by the
Red Cross in the Southport area
came from the following sources:
Mrs. Civella Lewis (door to
door), $169.11; R. E. Nicolson,
$120; Sunny 'Point Army Termin
al, $48.75; Mrs. Kathryn Savage
(highway businesses) $32.53; Or
mond Leggett, $15; Post Office,
$8; City employees, $11.25; hos
pital employees, $5.60 county em
nlnuPPQ t9i • SniiflrnArf TJi or Vi
School, $25; Mrs. A. H. Cromer,
Long Beach, $81.75; A. E. Rozar,
Yaupon Beach, $25.71; Mrs. A. E.
Lewis, Caswell Beach, $5; profes
sional organizations, $101.63; Dan
Shannon, Long Beach, $37.91; total
$711.84,
Colored residents campaign:
Brunswick County High School,
$47.10; proceeds from ball game,
$66.75; churches, $46.01; I.L.A, lo
, cal, $28.40; Eastern Star Lodge,
$5; Businesses, $18.50; House to
house canvas, $78.34; NAAQP $10;
American Legion Post $10; Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary $5, total
• ‘ $31».10; Grand total
Latest Tobacco
Marketing And
Grading Plans
Tobacco prices for 1964, new
government grades and a grading
demonstration will be some of the
features at a special meeting on
tobacco marketing for tobacco
growers in the Vocational Agri
culture Department of Wacca
maw High School on Thursday
July 30 at S p. m., according to
Ralph C. King, local teacher of
agriculture.
John H. Cyrus, a tobacco mar
keting specialist with the North
Carolina 'Department of Agricul
ture, will be present to discuss
the current problems facing the
tobacco industry and the tobacco
grower with emphasis on prepar
ing tobacco to meet the 1964 mar
ket demand. Cyrus will employ
an actual demonstration in tobac
co grading and will use a special
tobacco grading light in his dis
cussion.
All tobacco growers and persons
who will be involved in the pre
paration of tobacco for market are
urged to attend this meeting.
“Some may wish to bring a few
slicks of tobacco from a particu
lar curing to have it separated
into its proper grades,” King
said. "They are invited to do so.”
TIME and TIDE
It was July 22, 1959, and Brunswick County received $247,
393 for maintenance and $120,800 for construction from the
State Highway Commission. A Charleston, S. C., woman was
killed in a head-on crash near Shallotte Saturday.
The Southport Board of Aldermen refused to honor a com
mittment made by the former administration to pay the salary
of a manual arts teacher for the local school. L. T. Davis of
Wilmington landed a 271-pound blue marlin. Paul L. Powell
signed for his third year as the coach at Waccamaw.
It was July 21, 1954, and Southern Bell announced plans to
entend telephone service to Bolivia, Supply, and Holden Beach
soon. Brunswick’s eighth traffic accident occurred Thursday
when Cecil V. Mintz, 35, of Freeland, died in a crash near
Waccamaw.
The first sailfish of the season, 6-feet 4-dnches, was landed
an Southport by Captain Howard Victor, a Shallotte delegation
asked the members of the Board of County Commissioners to
establish a health center in their town, but no action was taken.
It was July 20, 1949, and the North Carolina Baptists pur
chased the Fort Caswell historical site for $86,000. The citizens
of Bolivia decided to reactivate the municipal government they
let expire in 1924 by electing Charlie Rourk mayor.
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REA Head Holds Court
For Jury To Hear Case
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Southport Artist
Drowns In River
The body of Arthur E. Newton,
well known North Carolina artist,
was found in the edge of the
marsh bordering the Cape Pear
river about a quarter mile above
Southport Saturday afternoon.
He had last been seen alive late
Thursday afternoon, and Coroner
L. B. Bennett attributed his death
to accidental drowning.
Other members of the Newton
family were at the beach Thurs
day night, so there was no alarm
over the disappearance of the
Southport man until late Friday.
Saturday morning members of
the Southport and Long Beach
Rescue Squads began a search
for him, with the river the focal
point. The body was located
shortly after noon.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 5 o’clock Saturday at the
graveside by the Rev. Charles
Lancaster, pastor of Trinity
Methodist Church of which the de
ceased was' a member. He was
buried in the old Southport cem
etery.
Art Newton was the familiar
name by which he was known.
Bom in Southport, Newton had
studied at the Central Academy
of Commercial Art in Cincinnati,
Ohio; the Ozenfant School of Mod
AKTHUK K. NEWTON
era Art in New York City, and
the Cartoonists - Illustra
tors School, also in New York.
Early in his career, he served
as artist for Avon Cosmetics and
James Gray, Inc., publishers,
both in New York, and for Station
WECT-TV, Wilmington.
For the past six years Newton
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County Tax Rate
Is Set At $1.60
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Feed Grain Checks
Ready To Deliver
Final feed grain payments are
now being prepared with pay
ments expected to start Friday,
iASCS Manager Ralph Price an
nounced Tuesday.
He said each participating
farmer in the county will be no
tified by post card when he should
come to the ASCS office in Shal
lotte for his feed grain payment.
Farmers should wait until
their notices arrive before con
tacting the office. "Do not come
and call for your payment unless
you have a notice,” Manager
Price said.
Training Union
Session Starts
More than 700 Baptists through
out the state are participating in
the first of the two week sessions
of Training Union work at the
North Carolina Baptist Assembly,
according to Manager Fred
Smith.
Under the direction of James P.
Morgan, secretary of the Training
ujixuii 'o-^pcLi LiiiciiL ui uie capiist
State Convention, the campers,
who range in age from adults to
beginners, will undergo church
membership training.
Rev. Gioele Settembrini, pastor
of the Protestants and Other
Americans United Church in
Washington, D. C., will lead sev
eral discussions on the problems
of church-state relationships. He
will talk in particular about the
U. S. Supreme Court’s ban of
prayer in the schools.
Mrs. 'Agnes Fylant of Nashville,
Tenn, a retired secretary of the
church recreation department, of
the State Baptist group will talk
about the recreational aspects of
church work. She is a graduate
of Texas Christian University,
Southwestern Baptist Theological
Siminary, The Curry School of
Expression and the WMU Train
ing school. She has worked in
churches in Alabama, Florida,
Texas and Tennessee.
Mrs. Pylant is author of “Val
entine Banquets,’’ “Playtime”,
“Fun Plans for Church Recrea
tion,” and "Church Recreation”,
a church study course book. She
is co-author with Mrs. Clyde M.
Maguire of “Tell-Well Stories”
and “More TelMYell Stories”.
She has compiled several book
lets in the “Choice Series” on so
cial recreation. Mrs. Pylant also
has written numerous articles
concerning banquets, parties, and
Continued on Page Two
Members of the board of coin
missioners in session Monday ten
tatively approved the budget for
the next fiscal year based on a
tax rate of $1.60. This represents
an increase of 25-cents per hun
dred over last year’s rate of $1.35.
Included in the new tax break
down is provision for a 10-cent
levy for the Resources Develop
ment Commission which was au
thorized by vote of the people in
January of this year. Also reflect
ed in the increase is a 55-cent
levy for the Board of Education.
This compares to the levy last
year of only 35-cents.
The apparent 20-cent increase
granted the schools is misleading
ill that the 35-cent levy last year
was 5-cents less than had been
levied in prior years for school
purposes. Faced with a shortage
of funds, the Brunswick County
Board of Education was given
permission to borrow $21,000 to
meet operational expenses for the
current fiscal year. Of the 55-cent
levy for next year, 10-cents is for
debt service, which will repay
the $21,000 loan.
The new budget is based upon
a valuation of $34-mlllion and con
templates 90-percent collection.
An unusual feature of this year’s
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i uncial ouiiudy
For Mrs. Ward
Mrs. Velma Fulcher Ward, 54,
died in the U. S. Naval Hospital
in Camp Lejeune, Friday, after
tr short illness. She was a mem
ber of the Daughters of America,
the Order of Eastern Star and of
the Trinity Methodist church
here.
The deceased had been very
active in religious, social and
civic activities. She was an act
ive member of Trinity Methodist
Church, of the Order of Eastern
Star, Daughters of America and
and of the Southport Woman’s
Club. She was registrar for
Southport Precinct No. 1 at the
time of her death.
Final rites were held Sunday at
3 p. m. at Trinity Methodist
Church by the Revs. Charles
Lancaster, L. D. Hayman and
Edward B. Jordan, with burial in
Northwood Cemetery.
Survivors include her husband,
Worth B. Ward; two daughters,
Miss Sally Ann Ward and Mrs.
'Lena W. Fisher, both of South
port; a brother, Phillip Rudolph
Fulcher of Leland; and a half
brother, Phillip Agnew Fulcher of
Southport.
Active pallbearers were Archie
Dixon, Dave Garrish, C. Bellamy,
Floyd Dilsaver, Billie Dosher,
John C. Davis, John Barbee and
Glennie Howard.
By STEVE WALL
SHALLOTTE—Dr. E. D. Bishop,
executive director of the Bruns
wick Electric Membership Cor
poration, flipped a filter-tip stub
from his Franklin D. Roosevelt
cigarette holder and called the
court to order.
The Rural Electric Adminis
tration, and particularly the co
operative (BEMC) which he di
rects, was on trial and the time
had come to explore the facts to
arrive at the truth.
His jury was a sort of Roman
tribunal — a banker, minister
and a businessman. They had
been invited by Public Relations
director Marvin Lewis to BEMCs
eye-appealing, flower and shrub
surrounded headquarters here to
hear the REA story, how if start
ed ticking in the late 1930’s under
guidance of President Roosevelt
and how the lure of instant light
and power has attracted, for
BEMC, some 12,000 patrons as of
today. Tomorrow the figure may
rise.
But the triumvirate: The bank
er—Wayne Hughes, cashier of the
First National Bank of Tabor
City; the minister — Rev. James
H. Johnson, pastor of the Tabor
City Baptist church; the business
man — Paul Rogers, Jr., associ
ated with the East Carolina
Wholesale Company of Tabor
City.
They had heard conflicting sto
ries about REA, about REA’S
reiusai to svu out u> private pow*
er and thus forfeit the birthright
of those who founded the agency
Eome 25 years ago; about REA
being made a political football in
the General Assembly wherein
founders would lose control and
ownership of their distribution
lines, and about charges that the
government was lending REA 2
per cent money and borrowing at
a higher rate with taxpayers
picking up the difference.
Dr. Bishop was as calm as the
Ancient Mariner's sea. Let’s put ?
first things first, he began, and-.V
the story of BEMC and its 12,000
members unfolded:
Borrowed Money
He read from a clipping taken ,
from a report of the U. S. Secre
tary of the Treasury, issued Jan- f
uary 1964. The report said, begin
ning with 1936 and ending in 1961,
REA had paid an average of 2.24 |
percent interest on money bor- ;
rowed from the federal REA t®
build distribution lines and trans
former stations throughout the
country to bring light and power '
to rural districts, the district "
which private power refused to «
serve in the dark days because it \
would not be a profitable venture, j
In the next column, the report |
said the federal government had ?
paid an average of 2.28 per c^nt *
on money borrowed from the pub- *
lie to lend to REA to help in de- jj
veloping rural sections.
The difference, Dr. Bishop point- ?
ed out, is 0.04 per cent, an infin- j
itesimal slice of a penny. I
But note, he explained, the in- |
crease in value of property for
tax purposes created by spread- f
ing light and power throughout 4
the countryside is “four to five j
times greater than this differ- ,
ence.” ;
He went on while the jury lis
tened and questioned: j
Power and light rates for any 3
co-operative are formulated by I
the Board of Directors and ap- ;
proved or disapproved by the U.S.
REA. Rates for a co-operative)
vary from one to another and no i
rate will be approved unless it is
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Following Is the tide
table for Southport during
the week. These hours are
approximately correct and
were furnished The State
Fort Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
FUot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, July 28
6:46 A.M. 1:09 A.M.
7:22 P. M. 1:06 P. M.
Friday, July 24,
7:28 A. M. 1:50 A. M.
8:00 P. M. 1:45 P. M.
Saturday, July 25,
8:06 A. M. 2:30 A. M.
8:36 P. M. 2:25 P. M.
Sunday, July 26,
8:43 A. M. 3:08 A. M. v
9:11 P. M. 3:04 P. M.
Monday, July 27,
9:21 A. M. 3:46 A. M.'r
9:46 P. M. 3:45 P. M.
Tuesday, July 28,
10:02 A.M. 4:24 A.M.1
10:25 P. M. 4:27 P. M.
Wednesday, July 29,
10:48 A. M. 5:05 A. M.
11:08 P. M. 5:15 P. M.