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The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
THE STATE PORT PILOT
Volume 24
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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1964
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Asheboro Boy
Scout Troop In
Camp At Beach
Asheboro Troop 324 held a joint
camping trip with the Southport
Boy Scouts at Long Beach over
the weekend.
During the three days of camp
ing on the beach, the Asheboro
boys participated in Water scout
ing under the direction of the
local boys.
On Saturday night the scouts
enjoyed camp-fire activities after
having a meal of clam chowder.
The boys caught the clams that
morning and cooked the meal.
The Asheboro Boy Scouts were
under the direction of Scoutmas
ter Allen Reavis and Assistants
Ike Robinson and Nelson Simp
son. Robinson is a native of
Southport and played a major
part in having the up-state scouts
come to Brunswick county.
Scoutmaster Reavis said this
was the troop’s first beach camp
out. “We promised the boys we
would do something extra spe
rial if fhflV o 1 1 J
Scouts Camp At Long Beach
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this year”, he said. “When they
did, Ike, an old Southport boy,
suggested that we visit Long
Beach, and here we are.”
The Asheboro Boy Scouts, some
36 strong, arrived Friday mom*
ing to begin practicing scout
ing in a different atmosphere,
Scoutmaster Reavis said.
They set up 20 colorful wall
tents and five flyers covering
their eating tables on the beach.
The Southport troop, under
Scoutmaster George Parker and
Assistant Carl Watkins, establish
ed their camp site behind the vis
itors.
The two troops participated in
claiming and other recreational
activities Saturday morning be
fore visiting various historical
sites in the county that afternoon.
The camp fire get-together was
held Saturday night and was at
tended by several parents of
Asheboro boys who made the trip
. but stayed in motels,.
On Sunday, ReV. Horace Haw- ~
es, pastor of the Oak Island Bap
tist Mission, conducted church
services on the beach for the
boys. After other scouting activi
ties Sunday morning the boys re
turned to Asheboro that after
if noon.
Planning Board
Makes Progress
The Long Beach Planning
Board, working with representa
tives of the Division of Com
munity Planning, has completed
, ti proposed revision of street
, . names for the town.
The proposed new system of
names, to be presented to the
Town Board of Commissioners
for approval, is based on an east
west numbering system. Only one
street in Long Beach would re
tain its present name.
Ocean Highway, cutting almost
|p through the center of Oak Island,
would remain the same. Ocean
Drive, along the strand, would
it become Beach Drive. The sec
ond-row street, Shallotte Avenue,
would become Dolphin Drive and
h i *he street from the ocean
jj' would be Pelican Drive.
Burlington Street, along the
Intra-Coastal Waterway, would
be numbered east and west from
‘ { what at present is Linconton .
Street. Under the new system,
the dividing street, Linconton, <
would be called Middleton Drive.
Entering Long Beach from
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MEMORIAL SERVICES
The Daughters of America will
hold a memorial service for Mrs.
Velma Ward at the Daughters of
America Building on August 20 at
S p. m. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
WIND UP CRUSADE
The Brunswick County unit of
the American Cancer Society
plans to conclude the Cancer J
Crusade this month and all per
sons who have not yet made their
contribution are urged to do so
before August 31.
STATE officer
Mrs. Harold Aldridge was elect
tci second vice president of the
Assistant and Deputy Clerks of
Superior Court Association at the
groups’ annual convention in
Durham last week. Mrs. Sylvia
James won a set of china as a
door prize at the banquet meet
ing Friday night.
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/ • ^rr‘she£)ro , T™°P 324 and the Southport Boy! Scouts held a joint
camping trip at Long- Beach Fnday, Saturday and Sunday. Assistant Scoutmasters
of the Asheboro scouts Nelson Simpson, left, and Ike Robinson, center, a native of
Southport, are shown during a troop inspection. (Staff Photo by Allen)
Two Drownings
Occur Thursday
Off Long Beach
A Thomasville man and his
niece drowned while swimming in
the surf at Long Beach early
Thursday morning. A triple trag
edy was averted when the man’s
seven year old daughter was res
cued.
W. Morgan (Buck) Grimes, 51,
and his niece, Jo Lynn Edwards,
15, were reported dead on arrival
at Dosher Memorial Hospital.
Coroner Lowell Bennett ruled the
deaths accidental drowning.
-Grimes’ daughter* -IJeutse,’~T;—
waS pulled from the water, given’ '
artificial respiration and rushed
to the county hospital in a Gil
bert Ambulance.
The drownings occurred just
east of the Lockwood Folly Inlet at
the lower end of Long Beach.
The Grimes had a cottage in the
area.
According to reports, the three
were swimming in the surf be
fore breakfast when Miss Ed
wards got into trouble and Grim
es attempted to rescue her.
When they were late returning
to the cottage, Mrs. Grimes be
gan scanning the beach with a
pair of binoculars. She sighted
Grimes and the girl floating, ap
parently lifeless in the water.
She called for help, and Owen
Cook and L. A. Whitcomb dived
into the water and pulled Denise
to. safety. They said later that she
had been floating on top of the
water.
They returned to the surf and
pulled Grimes and the Edwards
girl to the beach where artificial
respiration was applied for more
than one hour by Long Beach
Fireman and Rescue Squad mem
bers. They were taken to Dosher
Memorial Hospital where they
were pronounced dead on arrival.
Late Thursday the bodies were
taken to Thomasville where a dou
ble funeral service was held Sat
urday afternoon at the Emanuel
United Church of Christ.
Dentist Plans
To Move Here
Dr. Richard Conrad, Greens
boro dentist, has made arrange
ments to purchase the home and
former office of Dr. C. A. Gra
ham in Southport and will move
here next month to practice dent
istry.
Dr. Conrad, who is a graduate
of the School of Dentistry at the
University of North Carolina, has
visited Southport since the de
parture of Dr. Graham and has
made a personal investigation of
the prospects for practice here.
“I am familiar with Southport
and Brunswick county”, he said
jn a telephone conversation Mon
nay afternoon. “I have been
spending my vacations at Long
Beach for three or four years
and X have flown my plane down
on several occasions for weekend
visits.”
Dr. Conrad holds a commercial
pilot license and was quite fami
liar with the development of the
Brunswick County Airport. He
said he likes hunting and fishing,
but confessed that flying is his
first love.
He is married, is a native of
Greensboro and took his under
graduate work at the University
if North Carolina before enroll—
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Paratroopers Hit
Bald Head Island
Almost 60 airborne troopers hit
the silk Sunday when planes drop
ped men on Bald Head Island in
the second phase of an opera
tional problem in Brunswick
county.
The Special Warfare Army
troops, all members of Company
B of the Special Forces Group
at Fort Bragg, jumped from USF
C-46’s shortly after daybreak Sun
day. Two drops were made dur
ing the exercises S\mds,y and
about .29. men jumped each .time.
’fhe fiift 6f the jumps came
about 7 a. m. Sunday. The plane,
coming in low, made one pass
over Bald Head Island and drop
ped two men on the second trip
over the sub-tropical area. The
pair fell into the edge of the wa
ter off the ocean side of the is
land. One was picked up by a
safety toat waiting in the surf
and the other walked to dry sand
on the beach.
Five paratroops dropped on the
third flight over the island, all in
a straight line atop a sand dune
at the water’s edge. Seven men
dropped into the chill air on the
fourth swoop, on the same level,
followed by others in additional
flights until 29 men were on the
ground.
The pilot then raced back
across the sand at treetop level
to check his handiwork and
headed for Fort Bragg for the
second load.
The soldiers stayed on Bald
Head Island until Wednesday for
survival training, -then “infiltrat
ed” to a target in the Southport
to-Yaupon Beach area. The exact
location was not made public.
The group will return to the Fay
etteville base at the end of the
week.
Some 40 soldiers comprising
jump units of Company D of the
same group were here on a simi
lar problem last week in the first
phase of the maneuvers..
That unit, arriving by boat af
ter being transported by trucks
from Fort Bragg to Southport
“captured” a target area inside
Sunny Point Army Terminal last
Wednesday night after paddling
up the Cape Fear River in rubber
boats.
Other units are scheduled to
take part in the overall maneuver
but information on just what the
future problems will be has not
been released.
Beer-Wine Vote
At Long Beach
Some 130 legal residents of
Long Beach are registered to
vote in a beer and wine election
on Tuesday, according to regis
trar Mrs. Charline W. Johnson.
The election was called by the
Long Beach Board of Commiss
ioners after receipt of a petition
signed by thirty-one percent of
the legal residents who voted in
the last town election.
The ballot will offer voters a
choice between beer and wine
sold on premises at Class A
motels, hotels and restaurants
and off premises at other legally
licensed businesses, or no beer
and wine at all.
At present, no beer or wine is
sold on all of Oak Island, consist
ing of Long Beach, Yaupon Beach
and Caswell Beach. An ABC
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Appointed
Kirby Sullivan, Southport at
torney, was one of four South
eastern North Carolina men
named this week by Governor
Terry Sanford to serve on the
board of trustees of Cape Fear
Technical Institute.
ASC Committee
Meeting Planned
County and Community ASC
committen will meet Monday
morning at 9:30 o’clock to com
plete the naming of candidates
for each of the six Brunswick
townships for next month’s elect
ion, according to Manager Ralph
L. Price of the Agricultural Stab
ilization and Conservation Ser
vice. The meeting will be held in
the Shallotte office.
Manager Price said that as of
Tuesday afternoon no petitions
signed by six eligible voters seek
ing to place names on the ballot
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Glore Chairman
Southport Ports
Authority Group
General James Glore was elect
ed chairman of the Southport
Ports Authority at a special meet-'
ing Wednesday afternoon'.
The local group is charged with
acting as an advisory body to the"
State Ports Authority in admin
istering the Southport Small Boat
harbor.
Other officers elected beside
Chairman Glore include Vice
Chairman Louis J. Hardee of
Southport and Secretary-Treas
urer W. C. Love of Southport. Ed
Oliver. Jr., of Southport and G. E.
Henderson of Shallotte are the
ether two members of the South
port Port Commission.
The group will meet monthly on
the third Wednesday at 1 p. m.
in Southport starting in Septem
ber.
Executive Director James W.
Davis of the State Ports Authority
believes that the new Southport
Small Boat Harbor, now under
construction, couid provide the
basis for several industries and
definitely will require the ser
vices of many firms once it is
opened in March.
Several food processing firms
have already made inquiries
about locating near the small
Boat Harbor, Davis said. In addi
tion, several major oil companies
have shown an interested re
sponse to bids asked by the SPA
for an operator of a fueling sta
tion at the harbor.
He said that 25 to 30 of the 50
acres at the site of the new facil
ity will be developed for private
investors. Davis believes the de
mand will be heavy for the -prop
Southport Mayor E. B. Tomlin
son agrees with Davis’ predic
tions. “The Small Boat Harbor
signals the beginning of an indus
try that will utilize our natural
resources, attract other allied
businesses, provide employment
*nd still be compatible with the
characteristics that make South
t .port a quaint village on the Cape
! Feaf river,’’ he
The new liarbor, Mayor Tom
linson said, will provide' employ
ment without basically changing
Southport’s pleasant way of life.
“Southport needs jobs for all its
people but does not need a large
plant with many workers rushing
to and team their jobs,’’ he point
ed out. ?The continuance of our
quaintness will always attract
and holdf people.
“The Small Boat Harbor will
compliment the natural growth of
the area as a resort and tourist
center and enhance its growth
as a commercial seafood process
ing center,” Mayor Tomlinson
declared.
Important Meet
Thursday Night
More than 50 c o m-m unity
leaders in Brunswick County
have been invited to meet at
Holden Beach Thursday to dis
cuss the future growth of the
county.
The meeting, arranged by the
South Eastern North Carolina
Beach Association, will be attend
ed by some of the outstanding
business, professional, and polit
ical leaders of Brunswick County.
The session is scheduled for 7:30
p. m. at the Ebb Tide Restaurant
at Holden Beach.
L. C. LeGwin, President of the
South Eastern North Carolina
Beach Association, in announcing
the meeting said, “This could
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TIME and TIDE
It was August 19, 1959, and a former Southport High
School teacher, Miss Sara Bertha Townsend, published her
first book, “An American Soldier—The Life of John Laurens’’,
and donated a copy to the library.
Superintendent John G. Long announced that schools would
open on August 28. Scores of Brunswick county citizens saw
.the firey trail of Juno II as it arched across the sky Friday
evening. Gene Winfree was named athletic director at Shallotte
High School replacing Paul K. Weatherly.
It was August 18, 1954, and Sunday movies were shown at
the Amuzu for the first time. Southport party boats landed four
sailfish during the week, with Captain Thomas H. Watts hav
ing two. Ernest Parker of Southport was the president of the
Young Democratic Club.
A group of Shallotte citizens asked the Board of County
Commissioners to establish a medical center in their town. Bruce
Cresson, assistant pastor of the Southport Baptist Church, re
turned to the Southeastern Seminary for his thrid year.
It was August 17, 1949, and Southport residents voted
overwhelmingly Saturday for beer sales, 359 to 63. A ground
breaking ceremony for a new parsonage at Soldier Bay Church
at Ash was held Sunday.
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Visitor From Japan
REUNION—Mrs. Hazel Minton, left, is shown in
her yard in Southport with her guest, Miss Michiko
Soni, who is from Tokyo, Japan, where the Minton
family met her during their stay in that country.
Miss Soni will attend New England Conservatory of
Music this fall. (Staff Photo by Allen).
Mrs. Gilbert Heads
MRS. TOM GILBERT
Japanese Girl
Visiting Here
A hint of the exotic Far East
entered Southport Wednesday in
•the presents of Michiko Soni
who is spending two weeks with
her “adopted” family, the Allen
Mintons.
Miss Soni, 22, a native of Tok
yo, Japan, will visit with the Min
ton family during the month of
August before entering the New
•England Conservatory of Music
in Boston to work on her master’s
degree.
Miss Soni will present a concert
at the Southport High School au
ditorium Sunday afternoon at 2
o’clock. No admission will be
charged but a silver offerings
will be taken to help defray her
college expenses.
Miss Soni and the Mintons are
old friends. They first met when
the Southport family lived in Ja
pan for two years, with music,
the means that brought them to
gether. She taught piano to Mrs.
Minton, and daughters Carolyn,
the current Miss Brunswick Coun
ty, and Kay, a student at Mem
phis State University.
During the Minton’s two year
stay in Japan, Miss Soni visited
with the family on numerous oc-"
casions. “She calls us mother and
father,” Mrs. Minton said.
She recently graduated from
the School of Arts of the Univer
sity of Tokyo with a degree in
music. She has been interested in
music since she was six years
old and plays the piano and
sings.
After her graduation, Mr. and
Mrs. Minton helped her work for
a scholarship to the Boston con
servatory “Michiko had to take
several examinations, which she
passed with flying colors, before
being accepted,” Mrs. Minton
reported.
She will enter the school on
September 13 for two years of
study which will lead to her mas
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f A Southport woman was elect
ed head of the Daughters of
America at the groups state con
vention in Raleigh Thursday, Fri
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Mrs. Tom Gilbert advanced to
councilor of the fraternal order
Saturday. She has held rour other
state offices in the secret organ
ization which stands for the Holy
Bible and the American flag. She
was state vice-councilor last year.
Mrs. Gilbert is the third South
port woman to head the Daugh
ters of America in North Caro
lina. The late Mrs. Theo Osborne
and Mrs. Delphia Oberjohnn also
served as past leaders of the
group on the state level.
As head of the fraternal order,
Mrs. Gilbert will travel over the
state of North Carolina visiting
the different councils.
She has been a member of the
Southport chapter of the Daugh
ters of America for the past 12
years. The Southport group,
which was organized in the 1920’s
has 58 members today. They were
one of the many civic groups
which worked for the old-fash
ion Fourth of July celebration
this summer.
In addition to her work with
the Daughters of America, Mrs.
Gilbert is active in, Southport
civic work. She is the superin
tendent of the Sunday School of
the Presbyterian church president
of the Live Oak Garden Clubs, as
sociate matron of the Eastern
Star and a member of the Wo
men of the Presbyterian Church.
She is a past president of the
Southport P. T. A.
Mrs. Gilbert, a native of South
port, is married to a local funeral
director. They have one son,
Thomas, 14.
Mrs. Gwendly Dixon, Mrs. Lena
Fisher and Mrs. Deloris Fortiscue
attended the state meeting in
Raleigh with Mrs. Gilbert. They
are all members of the local
chapter.
Board Rezones
At Long Beach
The Long Beach Town Com
mission rezoned an area of re
sidential property to commer
cial use at the regular August
meeting on Saturday.
The second-row property ad
jacent to the Long Beach Pier
was rezoned at the request of
owner Gene Thorn of Fayette
ville. Thorn presented a letter
from the adjacent property own
er on the eastern side concurring
with his request.
The Long Beach Pier property
is owned by Harvey Ratcliff of
Fayetteville. A section of Rat
cliff’s property near the pier was
rezoned to commercial use at the
April board meeting, for use as
a transient trailer camp.
At the May meeting of the
beard, attention was called to the
fact that mobile homes of the
house trailer type had been loc
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Wednesday First
Day Of School
For Fall Term
More than 6,000 boys and girls
are expected to be on hand Wed
nesday when the bells ring in
tlie new shcool year In Brunswick
county
Superintendent A. W. Taylor
said he believes that enrollment
would reach 6,200 on the first day.
"We are expecting more students
than we have ever had before,"
he added.
Three new principals will be on
duty for the first time in the
County. Lee R. Biggerstaff, has
replaced Willard Cox at Southport
Edwin F. Currie takes over for L.
A. Bruton at. Waccamaw and
Winston Brown for John L.
Simmons at Piney Grove.
The returning principals work
ing in the county include Win
fred Johnson at Shallotte, Thom
as L. Davis at Bolivia, Rockfellow
Venters at Leland, Alvin Caviness
at Brunswick County High School,
Jonathan Hankins at Union High
School, James F. Clemmons at
Lincoln High School, Henry B.
Greene at Cedar Grove and Ph
lander R. Hankins at Longwood.
Superintendent Taylor announc
ed that for the first time each
high school in Brunswick coun
ty will have a home economics
teacher.
A special education class has
been set-up at Waccamaw this
year. This in the second such
class at the Ash School while
Southport has one.
The school buses will run Wed
nesday to pick up students for
the first school day, which begins
at 8:30 a. m. and ends at 12
noon. On that day students will be
assigned to classes, books given
out and fees collected.
Fees charged to elementary
pupils in grades 1 to 8 include;
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Horace Hawes, Jr., pastor of
the Oak Island Baptist Mission
on Long Beach, recently made
known his resignation as pastor
of the church, effective on Sep
tember 6. Having served the Mis- |
sion for two and one-half years.
Rev. Hawes will assume duties $
ministering to children at the ,|
Baptist Children’s Home in Green
wood, South Carolina.
Oak Island Baptist Mission had
its first service in the Long Beach
City Hall on June 12, 1960.
Since that time its membership
has grown to approximately one
hundred. Last August the church '
moved into a second phase of an
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REV. HORACE HAWES
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 20
5:32 A. M. 11:55 A. M.
6:10 P. M.
Friday, August 21,
6:17 A.M. 0:39 A.M.:
6:53 P. M. 12:40 P. M.
Saturday, August 22 'i;
6:59 A. M. 1:21 A. M.
7:32 P. M. 1:22 P. M.
Sunday, August 23
7:40 A. M. 2:00 A. M.
8:09 P. M. 2:02 P. M.J»
Monday, August 24
8:19 A. M. 2:39 A. M.
8:46 P. M. 2:45 P. M.
Tuesday, August 25
8:59 A. M. 3:17 A. M.
9:23 P. M. 3:27 P. M.
Wednesday, August 26
9:41 A. M. 3:56 A. M.
10:03 P. M. 4:12 P. M.