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;M' V The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume 24 No. 6 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1964 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Governor In Southport Today ' odiuuru is snown nere talking to a group of people at the Southport yacht basin at noon today prior to departure on a boat trip to the site of the Southport Small Boat Harbor, now under consruction, and a trip across the Cape. Fear to Fort Fisher. (Staff Photo by Allen) Republicans Hold Kick-Off Rally Saturday Night Army Exercises Scheduled Here More than 300 Brunswick coun ty Republicans gathered at Som mersett Landing Saturday night to hear Guilford County Attorney Durward S. Jones deliver a blis tering attack on the Democratic party and explain how the GOP swept Guilford county in 1962. , “The Democratic party has walked off and left the people of North Carolina standing by them selves,” Jones said. "Tody alixe long Dmocrats are wondering what happened to their party. “On the other hand, the Repub lican party of North Carolina is right in step with the people,” he declared. Jones, who is from Greensboro, was appointed county attorney of Guilford after thes Republican swept to victory on all levels in 1962. He delivered bis speech at the kick-off rally for the Bruns wick County Republican party Saturday night. Before his ad dress, the county GOP candidates made short talks. Lester Bab son of Freeland presided at the rally. Jones said three ingredients are needed for Republicans to win elections. “We must have good candidates, issues and or ganizations to win”, he declared. “When we have these three, the Democratic voters will do the rest to insure GOP victories. “The people of Brunswick coun ty don’t have to worry about can didates because you have already got a fine ticket,” he pointed out. “The Democratic party has been in office for so long that they have created all the issues we need to win elections. Continued On Page Four Military planners from the 7th. Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, North Carolina,, togehter with officials of Sunny Point Army ' Terminal, are currently planning a series of Small Unit Exercises to take place in the Yaupon, Smith Island, Souhtport, and Sun ny Point areas. Preliminary plans call for the first exercise to occur during the period August 10-13. As tentatively planned, a small unit consisting of about twenty five to thirty Airborne Special Forces troops together with equipment will be airdropped either in the Yaupon area or Smith Island during the early S & L Approval For Shallotte Officials of the Southport Sav ings & Loan Association have re ceived approval of their applicat ion for establishment of a branch office at Shallotte. Negotiations are now underway for office space at Shallotte, but no announcement has been made regarding the date for opening the new branch, t An application and support ing documents were submitted to the N. C. Department of Insurance several months ago asking permission to establish a branch in Shallotte. The ap plication pointed out that due to the rapid growth of this section of the county, the facilities would be justified. RALLY—More than 300 Brunswick County Re publicans turned out for the party’s kick-off fish fry rally at Sommersett Landing Saturday night. Shown having supper are Durward Jones, county attorney of Guilford county, left, and Lester Babson of Freeland, master of ceremonies at the rally. (Staff Photo by Allen) morning hours of August 10. The unit will then reorganize and JnaJts preparations for a raid on Sunny point Army Terminal. ; This is to be accomplished -hy'-' the unit in small boats moving up the Cape Fear River under , the Coyer of darkness and landing on “the east side of the River at SPART the night of August 2 . The unit will then infiltrate to an objective located within the Terminal; accomplish its mission by destroying the objective (simu lated) ; and then exfiltrate (with drew) to the vicinity of Southport from where it will be returned to Fort Bragg. Other exercises of a similar nature are scheduled for later undertermined dates. marketing Cards Are Mailed Out The Brunswick County Agricul tural Stabilization and Conserva tion Service in Shallotte has mail ed tobacco marketing cards to all county growers, Manager Ralph L. Price announced Tuesday. “All tobacco farmers should be on the look out for their mar keting cards and take care of them until needed,” Manager Price said. The cards were sent to the farm operator except in a few cases when they were mailed to the producer on the farm. “The cards belong to the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture,” he pointed out. “They are issued to grow er's for use in the marketing of their crop under the tobacco pro gram regulations”. Manager Price said there were seven things county farmers should remember when they re ceive their marketing cards: 1. Auction Sales: Present the card at the warehouse when your tobacco is weighed in. 2. Non-auction sales: Present the card to the buyer for prep aration of Bill of Nonwarehouse Sale. Make sure sale is entered on front cover of card. 3. Inspect card at each sale to see that entries are proper. Re port errors to county office. 4. Keep the card with you ex cept when recording sales. 5. Penalty for false representa tion: If the card is used to mar ket tobacco produced on another farm or if tobacco produced on the farm is identified on the mar keting card for another farm, ap plicable penalties will be assess ed, the allotments for both farms involved may be reduced and the persons involved may be subject to prosecution. 6. Return the tobacco market ing card to the ASCS county of fice when all tobacco has been marketed or all space for re cording sales has been used. Failure to return the card may result in a reduction of the allot ment next established for the Continued On Page Four Soil Scientists At Work Making Study Of Soils By B. I* FOUTZ * SoH Conservation Service ■ ••"•■"’If "you■■amp, a man walking* ovSt" ..your own or a neighbors farm, carrying a board and what sort Of looks like a walking stick with a big cork screw on the end, don’t be alarmed. •' ' * '1' / The man is a soil scientist for the Soil Conservation Service. He and other trained men like him are busy these days making maps of Brunswick County farms. These men are the “scouts” of the Soil Conservation Service. All recommendations made by the service for improvement of the soil are based on the soil and capability maps made by the soil scientist after a careful survey of the farm. Scientists are usually thought of as men who spend most of their time in laboratories looking through microscopes but the soil scientists carry their tools into the field and spend 80 percent of their time in the open. Farmers often ask Arlin Weav er, soil scientist in the Brunswick Soil and Water Conservation Dis trict, what he is drilling for when they see him using his soil auger. He explains that he bores the hole tc determine the depth and tex ture of the soil. This tells him the type of soil present and the amount of eroison that has taken place. By adding this information to the percentage of slope obtain ed with a hand level, he has the three factors by which the soil scientist classifies the land: soil, slope and erosion. “To develop an effective con servation plan, it is necessary to know what kind of soil is present Continued On Page Four SSsSSSSB TIME and TIDE It W£is August 5, 1959, an for a 10 percent raise for all . construct a new agricultural t the new county home economic day. Foxy Howard, a former S was employed as the police chi Clark- who resigned. Tire Boai State Library Commission for i It was August 3, 1954, ar a pond on the farm of R. A. 1 the Bolivia Lion’s Club engagec bread sale Saturday. Cornelius Thomas was elec County Historical Society. Big continued in Southport as the Sergeant Lettie Hickman of So It was August 3, 1949, and was working on the Leland-I and the Hickmans Crossroad-./ port party boats were landing blues and mackerel. Continued On £ Governor Terry Sanford today announced that he is requesting the Highway Commission at its regular monthly meeting tomor row (Thursday) to authorize the establishment of the long-sought ferry service between Fort Fisher and Southport, across the Lower Cape Fear River. The announcement was made in person at a press conference held In the Community Building at Southport at 2 o’clock this af ternoon following a two-hour boat trip. Greetings were extended the governor and other visiting dig nitaries by Mayor E. B. Tomlin son, Jr., who presented the chief executive with a key to the city. In making the announcement, Governor Sanford said. “This fer ry service will be an important link in our efforts to provide an Ocean Drive from the Virginia border to South Carolina. Lying along North Carolina’s famed Outer Banks and coastal counties, and running almost in the wash of waves, this highway will be one of the most magnificent tour ist attractions in the nation.” Citizens of Brunswick and New Hanover counties have been appealing to succeeding Highway Commissions for more than 30 years for the establishment of this ferry service. Governor Sanford stated that ferry design plans already have been drawn and considerable preparatory work has been done. He said that the establishment of this ferry service is a natural development in the program of Southeastern North Carolina, al ready one of the major beach areas on the Atlantic Seaboard. The Governor - expressed the hope that the Highway Commis sion would move quickly on his proposal and that the ferry ser vice would be in operation for the 1966 summer tourist season. Following the announcement concerning the ferry, members of the press corps who were present for the meeting, plied Governor Sanford with questions on other matters. This was scheduled to be his last press conference prior to leaving for the Democratic Na tional Convention next week. Several other dignataries were here for the day. They included Merrill Evans, Chairman of the State Highway Commission, and Lauch Faircloth, District High way Commissioner of Clinton. Also present was James W. Davis, executive director of the State Ports Authority, who ex plained construction now in pro gress at the Small Boat Harbor to the Governor and other members of the party. This was a scene of busy activity, with draglines, a dredge, tugs and barges all in operation. The visitors were aboard three of the sports fishing charter boats, the Rip Tide of Capt. Glenn Trunnell, the Eva Kay of Capt. Dick Skipper and the Idle On III of Capt. H. A. Schmidt. After the trip down the canal past the con struction site, they headed upriv er for a visit to the Fort Fisher area where the ferry slip on the east bank of the Cape Fear would be located. During the leisurely trip, lunch was served aboard the boats, so when the party returned to South port they were able to go at once to the Community Building for the press conference. Ernest E. Parker, Southport attorney and member of the Board of Conservation and De velopment, was in charge of the arrangements but he had the full cooperation of boat owners, city officials and a group of ladies who prepared the lunches. World Fair Bound Florida-New York Ski Troupe Here SKIERS—Southport Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, second from the right, is shown presenting a key to the city to Jim Gray, right, during the stop-over of the Florida to New York’s World Fair water skiers Thursday afternoon. Miss Ramona Ware, standing beside mayor Tomlinson, is shown holding greetings from the City of St. Petersburg. Others in the picture, left to right, include Miss Carol Patton, and Miss Paula Young, skiers, and William Powell, Southport Jaycee president. (Staff Photo by Allen) Place Order For Fire Apparatus Fire Chief Ormond Legget re ported this week that the new fire truck and Fire fighting equipment authorized by the citi zens of Southport in a bond elect ion earlier this year has been or dered. Willetts & Son of Bolivia pre viously had been low bidder for a truck chasis, an 850 Ford. The Howe Fire Apparatus Co. of Continued On Page Four i the new county budget called :ounty employees and $11,250 to uilding. Mrs. Thelma Upchurch, 9 agent} reported to work Mon xithport man living in Hamlet, it of Southport to replace Louis ■d of Commissioners asked the i bookmobile for the county. d an alligator was captured in daultsby in Bolivia. Members of . in their annual house to house ted president of the Brunswick catches of blues and mackerel fishing season reached its peak, ithport was in the WAC’s. the State Highway Commission .anvale, Bolivia-Antioch Church .sh roads in Brunswick. South large catches of fish, principally age Four *v M* Of HSEWS-1 BAZAAR IN NOVEMBER The WSCS of Trinity Methodist Church will hold a bazaar on No vember 13 next door to Kirby Prescription Center. ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR Lawrence Willing was employ ed as Temporary electrical in spector for" 30-days in Smithville township by the Brunswick Coun ty Board of Commissioners Mon day. He will replace the late Clyde Newton in the position. DISTRICT DEPUTIES VISIT On Monday, August 17, at 8 p. m. Mrs. Alene W. Long, dis trict deputy Grand Matron, and Col. Wilmer G. Kemper, Dis trict deputy Grand Patron of the Fouth District, will visit Live Oak Chapter No. 179, in Southport. All members are urged to attend. Supper will be served at 6:30 p. m. IMPORTANT MEETING An important meeting of the board of directors of the Bruns wick Chamber of Commerce will be held at the REA office in Shallotte next Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock. Brunswick county folders and business directories will be given out for distribution. GOSPEL SING The Leland Jaycees are spon soring a Gospel Sing, Saturday night at 8 o’clock in the Leland High School auditorium. Several groups from the surrounding communities will perform. Master of ceremonies will be Garland Bordeaux. Proceeds will go to ward the completion of lighting the Leland athletic field. Opposition To Vote Proposal Mayor E. F. Middleton and two members of the Long Beach Board of Commissioners voiced opposition to a Citizen’s Com mittee attempt to outlaw absen tee voting in town election at an open meeting held at the Long Beach Pavilion Monday night. A special legislative act con tined in Chapter 1067 of the Ses sion Laws of 1955, amended in 1957 and 1959, allows all free holders of Long Beach to cast a preferential ballot for members of the Town Board. Middleton said that a town should run itself if it is capable of doing so. However, he pointed out that, in his opinion, there are not yet enough legal residents of Long Beach to properly run the town government. Commissioner Woodrow W. Vennel agreed that, ideally, the vote in town affairs should be limited to legal residents, but that he did not feel the time was right for a change. Commissioner E. W. Morgan was also clearly in opposition to the plan to change the voting set-up. The meeting began with a re port from Long Beach grocery store operator R. D. Price, chair man of a committee appointed to investigate the possibility of legal action to eliminate voting by non resident property owners. Price reported that his com mittee had contacted several at torneys, including Long Beach Town Attorney Davis Herring. No attorney would agree to take the case of the committee, Price said. However, an appointment has been made with a Southport at torney who is interested in the Continued On Page Four IS I BILL /1LI,L > The Florida to New York water skiers arrived in Southport Thurs day two hours late, fueled up, had lunch and headed north that after noon in the rain. Southport Mayor E. B. Tomlin son was on hand to greet the group and present them with a key to the city. In return Mayor Tomlinson received a key to the city of St. Petersburg in the form of a tie-clasp. William Powell, Southport Jaycee president, was presented a cigarette lighter for his efforts. After the four 90-horsepower Johnson motors, which power the , two 20-foot G & W boats, were re -fueled, the group of six men and four women went to a local res taurant for lunch. All the group ate except Jim Gray, father of the idea and spokesman for the skiers. He went to the barbershop for a hair cut! x nccu <x iictxi lul wuiai uicUl <% meal”, Gray said with a smile. “My hair is so long the other ski ers have been calling me Ringo!” Ringo, in ease anyone doesn’t know, is one of the English rock and-roll singing Beatles. While in the barber chair pre sided over by Dempsey Hewett, Gray, 38, head of the St. Peters burg news bureau talked about the trip. The idea of skiing to the New York’s World Fair was originated by the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce. It is sponsored by leading water sports equipment manufacturers. t The trip is being made for two reasons. “A large percentage of people think only of St. Peters burg as a retirement center for old folks,” Gray said. “We wish to correct this image and at every opportunity along the way we point out we are a youthful, vibrant city, in addition to being a haven for our dearly beloved sen ior citizens. After all, St. Peters burg has over 80,000 school kids and it took a lot of young folks to accomplish that!” The second reason for the trip is in connection with the fair. “Florida Week at the World’s Fair begins August 9 and we thought the trip would be a pretty Continued On Page S 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, August 6 6:20 A. M. 0:34 A. M. 6:53 P.M. 12:40 P.M. Friday, August 7 7:18 A. M. 1:26 A. M. 7:46 P. M. 1:33 P. M. Saturday, August 8, 8:12 A. M. 2:15 A. M. 8:36 P. M. 2:25 P. M. Sunday, August 9 9:03 A. M. 3:02 A. M. 9:23 P. M. 3:15 P. M. Monday, August 10 9:53 A. M. 3:48 A. M. 10:09 P. M. 4:04 P. M. Tuesday, August 11 10:42 A. M. 4:32 A. M. 10:54 P. M. 4:52 P. M. Wednesday, August 12 11:30 A. M. 5:16 A. M. 11:38 P. M. 5:42 P. M.