The Pilot Covers Brunswick County T STATE PORT PILOT Most of the News All The Time A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume 24 No. 4 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1964 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 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 Continued On Page Four 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, Continued On Page Four 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, TY* • onnrQt'iMr.tfQQonrni* iHTro AT 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 Continued on Page Two 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 Continued On Page Four 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. Continued On Page Four REA Head Holds Court For Jury To Hear Case -------* 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 Continued On Page Four County Tax Rate Is Set At $1.60 r—* 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 Continued On Page Four r_i e___ 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 Continued On Page Four 1 f m i- 1 liae lame 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.

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