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 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.