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Volume 24
No. 9
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SOUTHPORT, N. C THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1964
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Strange Cargo > « :
The Lelia H, Southport shrimp trawler owned by Dallas Pigofct, headed out
to sea early today with a strange cargo in her hold. Instead of the customary load
of ice and provisions for a shrimping expedition, she had aboard 200 bags of ce
ment which she carried to the site of the new Light Station Tower off Frying
Pan Shoals.
Trawlers Are Haulers . -,
Tower Work Progressing
Two Southport shrimp trawlers 1
were converted into freight car
riers today (Wednesday) and the
Leila H and the Penny each took
on a cargo of 200 bags of cement
and headed toward Frying Pan
Lightship to deliver it to the site
of the Light Tower project.
Work on the erection of the
tower, which will replace the
lightship, is ahead of Schedule, but
this week there appeared the
possibility of a slow-down be
cause of the cement delivery pro
blem. Shrimping has been slow
around here in recent days, so
when Dallas Pigott and Merrit
Moore heard of the need for a
suitable vessel to deliver the
cement, they put in their bid.
They got the job.
Surprisingly enough the Light
Tower is not new in concept. A
structure was attempted on Fry
ing Pan Shoals by the U. S. Re
venue Cutter Service, and the
U. S. Lighthouse Service in May,
1881.
Due to weather and sea con
ditions mixed with disastrous
hurricanes, the attempts were
discontinued by November
of 1881 when it was found "im
practical to drive pilings on the
shoals”.
The new structure’s jacket
which will guide the driving of
the pilings was put in place on
Sunday, August 16. At present
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•-NEWS-1
HEADS MERCHANTS
D. V. Jones was elected presi
dent of the Shallotte Merchants
Association at an organizational
meeting Monday night.
BAKE SALE
The M. Y. F. of the Ocean View
Methodist Church will have a
bake sale on Saturday at
Holloway Furniture Store at
Long Beach starting at 9:30
o’clock.
AT CONVENTION
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Parker
of Southport are in Atlantic City
this week attending the Democ
ratic National Convention to
which Mr. Parker is a North
Carolina delegate.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
An orfganizational meeting for
Junior Girl Scouts will be held at
Trinity Methodist Church at 3:30
o’clock next Wednesday after
noon. Girls in the 4th. 5th or 6th
grades who would like to join
this organization are Invited to
attend.
OPENS STORE HERE
John Bray of Long Beach has
opened a catalogue store for
Western Auto in the St. George
Building two doors from the
Amuzu theatre on Howe street
in Southport. He plans to con
struct a new building at another
locaton and have a full-fledged
store in operation later this fall.
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Brunswick Backs
SENCland Projects
Brunswick county business, 1
civic and political leaders pledg
ed to give the Southeastern
North Carolina Beach Associ
ation more than $3,000 and chal
lenged New Hanover and Pender
counties to provide similar sup
port in ratio to their population
at a special meeting at the Ebb
Tide Restaurant at Holden Beach
Thursday night.
After the pledges were made,
SENCBA Executive Director Bill
Mitcham said the money virtually
assures the continuation of the
area promotional agency. He said
New Hanover and Wilmington
pledged $10,000 and Pender
$2,500 and Brunswick’s $3,000
would provide a realistic budget
of $15,000 for the group.
The money pledged by the
county amounts to six times the
support Brunswick gave the
association to promote its beach
es and other attractions last year.
Ray Walton, former State Sen
ator and Southport attorney,
called on New Hanover and Pen
der counties to do their part. He
said he believed Brunswick would
back up the pledges with money.
“I am certain that Brunswick
epunty will meet this committ
ment and now it’s time for New
Hanover and Pender to do like
wise,” Walton declared.
The pledges execeeded the
$2,500 goal established by the
leaders before a roll call was
made.
State Rep. Odell Williamson,
owner of Ocean Isle Beach, was
first to make his decision known.
“I will give $200 now,” he shout
ed.
Manuel Gore, developed of
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Bolivia School
Faculty Complete
Four new teachers will be
among the 15 faculty members
at Bolivia High School this year,
according to Principal Thomas
L. Davis.
The new teachers include Mrs.
Louise Crews, Mrs. Betty Hewett,
Mrs. Ann Sinclair and Mrs. Ra
mona King.
Mrs. Crews, a fifth grade in
structors, has been teaching in the
schools of Virginia for past 13
years. She is a graduate of Car
son Newman University in Tenn.
and lives at Holden Beach.
Mrs. Hewett wili teach com
mercial studies at Bolivia this
year. A graduate of the Univer
sity of South Carolina, she has
taught at Bolivia previously. For
'the past several years she has
been at Shallotte High School. She
lives in Shallotte.
Mrs. Sinclair will instruct high
school English and Spanish. She is
a graduate of the University of
North Carolina and has taught at
Continued On Page Four
Partner .
WILLIAM POWELL.
Powell Member
Of Legal Firm
The name of the Southport law
firm Herring, Walton and Park
er has been changed to Herring
Walton, Parker and Powell, it
was announced this week.
Davis C. Herring, Ray H. Wal
ton and Ernest E. Parker, Jr.,
said that William A. (Bud)
Powell has been admitted to the
partnership and the firm’s name
ihas been changed accordingly.
Powell, 33, has been a member
of the Southport law firm since
June of 1962. During the period
he has been active in Southport
and Brunswick county civic af
fairs.
He is chairman of Resources
Development Commission, presi
dent of the Southport Jaycees, a
member of the Morehead Scho
larship selection committee for
Brunswick county, a director of
•the SENC Development Associa
tion and chairman of the group’s
industrial program, commission
er of the softball program in
Southport, a former member of
the Airport Commission, a mem
ber and Sunday School teacher at
the Southport Baptist Church.
Powell is a native of Draper in
Rockingham county. He received
his undergraduate and law degree
at the University of North Caro
lina in 1958. He practiced law
with a firm in Leaksville for
four years before coming to
Southporrt.
He served for two years in the
Continued On Page Four
Shallotte High
School Faculty
Will Number 44
Ten teacners on the 43-mem
ber faculty at Shallotte High
School will be new this year, ac
cording to Principal Winfree
Johnson.
The new teachers at Shallotte
include Mrs. Ann Stanley White,
Mrs. Mary Z. Dawson, Mrs. Shir
ley Lowery, Mrs. Joy Walker,
Mrs. Sadie Norris, Mrs. Catheryn
Mintz, John Ballard, Bill Simon,
Robert Sellers, and Mrs. Phyllis
Gore. The 43 teachers will make
up the largest number of faculty
members Shallotte ever had at
the school.
Both Mrs. White and Mrs. Daw
son are first grade teachers who
were at Waccamaw last year.
Mrs. White has taught for sever
' al years while Mrs. Dawson is in
her third year.
Mrs. Lowery, who is from Wake
Forest, will teach the fourth
■ grade. This will be her first
teaching assignment since com
pleting college last year.
Mrs. Walker will instruct the
fourth grade. She Is a veteran
teacher of many years in the
South Carolina school system.
Mrs. Norris will serve as a
fifth grade teacher at Shallotte.
She is a native of Whitevllle who
taught in the Bladenboro school
system last year.
•Mrs. Catheryn Mintz will teach
the sixth grade. She is a former
Shallotte teacher who iretums
after two years of instructing in
the Wilmington school system.
She is the wife of the Shallotte
agriculture teacher, Leroy Mintz.
Ballard will serve as a seventh
grade instructor. He formerly
taught at Leland.
Simon will teach the eighth
grade. A graduate of Lenior
Rhyne College; he has been teach
ing at Whiteville High School for
a number of years.
Sellers, who is a former Shal
lotte teacher, returns this year
to. instruct classes in social
studies. He spent last year over*
seas visiting different parts of
the world: ,-'T v\:«
Mrs. Gore will serve Shallotte
this year as a eighth grade teac
her. She has been instructing in
the Wilmington school system for
a number of years.
In addition to the teaching
staff, Mrs. Katherine Benton, a
native of Hickman’s Crossroads,
will serve as the Shallotte librar
ian.
Continued On Page Four
FHA Emergency
Loans Available
Brunswick County has been
designated as a disaster area, en
titling eligible applicants to ob
tain production-type loans at 3
percent interest rate, according
to Parks Fields, county supervi
sor.
Eligibility is determined on an
individual basis and loans are
made only to those applicants
who cannot obtain credit from
conventional sources.
Loans are made to purchase
fertilizer, seed, pesticides, feed,
fuel, and other items necessary
for crop and livestock production.
Emergency loans are also made
to replace livestock and equip
ment, and to pay for necessary
home operating expenses.
Application forms and addi
tional information may be obtain
ed at the County FHA office in
Shallotte.
Fire-Razed Building
This is the Shopping Center Building at Boiling Spring Lakes which was de
stroyed by fire about midnight Friday. Equipment from three nearby fire depart
ments went to the scene of the fire but were too late to do any effective work.
Owner James Huffman says he will rebuild. (Staff Photo by Bill Allen).
Aldermen Ask
Cooperation In
Waste Disposal
The Southport Board of Alder
men at its last meeting passed a
resolution asking the N. C. Men
haden Company to take extra
care in disposing waste material
into the intracoastal waterway to
preserve the fish population.
' “The N. C. Menhaden Com
pany has been entering waste
material into the inland water
way which has been killing
large amounts of flounder, trout
and other fish,” the resolution
read. “The board requests that
the company dispose of injurious
wasto-msifter in a fashion tSStiS
would riot tSause further deterior
ation to the fi^h population.’* , v
The board sent the resolution
to the N. C. Menhaden Company
and asked that a reply be made
Small Boat Harbor” ond won $10.
winner of the contest to pick a
slogan for the 1965 city license
tags embracing the marine con
cept. She won $15 for her slogan,
“Harbor By The Sea.” Foxy Ho
ward was second with “N. C.’s
Small Boat Harbon” and won $10.
Mrs. Stanley O’Niel received
$5 and third place for "All Points
Harbor”.
Mrs. Tommy Kirby, G. W.
Fisher, Jr. and Mrs. Tom Gilbert
served as judges for the contest.
They reported that 74 people sub
mitted slogans for the contest.
The board unanimously voted to
make no changes in the Bi-Racial
Committee and it will continue
functioning as it has in the past.
This action was taken on a mo
tion by Johnie Vereen which was
seconded by Fred Spencer.
The Negro citizens sent the
board a letter supporting the com
mittee and asking that new mem
bers be added. They proposed
four new members and suggest
ed the board select the newcomers
from Mrs. Lureva Swain, Ephrain
Swain, Rev. Thomas G. Watts
William Greene, James W. Smith,
and Mrs. Eula M. Torrence.
The board asked that the ABC
store remain open from 9 a. m.
to 9 p. m. to meet the needs of
the citizens of Southport. The
store has been opening at 1
Continued On Page Four
It was August 26, 1959, and Governor Luther Hodges ap
pointed Representative James C. Bowman chairman of the State
Commission on Interstate Cooperation and Senator S. Bunn
Frink as a member of the group. State Magazine Editor Bill
Sharpe called on Southport Lions to preserve the character of
their town.
New principals in the schools of Brunswick county included
Reginal Turner at Southport, Irie Leonard at Shallotte, J. P.
Snipes at Bolivia, Homer Thomas at Leland, Jonathan Hankins
at Union and Philander R. Rankins at Longwood.
It was August 25, 1954, and an old eyesore in the Shallotte
business district, the Corner Bar, was being demolished. Tobacco
was averaging $55.75 per hundred pounds in Whiteville. South
port party boats landed four sailfish over the weekend.
John F. Small was named head football coach at Shallotte
High School replacing Walter Regan. A Lumberton man, Zeke
Stanton, opened a G. I. Surplus Store in Southport Saturday
and the city looked like a battle zone when all the little boys
put on their new Army uniforms.
It was August 24, 1949, and the Southport Board of Aider
man called on citizens to help clean up the city. Because of the
good fishing in the county, Jim Wilson of the Wilmington Star
Continued On Page Four
ASC Nominations
Are Completed
BOY ROBINSON
Former Mayor Is
Buried Tuesday
Captain Roy Robinson, retired
Coast Guard officer and former
mayor of Southport, died Sun
day morning at the U. S. Naval
Hospital at Camp Lejeune where
he had been in critical condition
for the past three weeks He was
70 years of ago.
Retired after 30 years in the
Coast Guard which included
service in both World Wars, he
was Southport’s mayor from
1955-57 and 1959-61. He was a
Mason and a member of the Sud
an Shrine Temple for 41 years.
A member of Trinity Methodist
Church, and a trustee, he
was a past president of the
Southport Lions Club and was
director of Civil Defense here
from 1955-61.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 4 p. m. at Trinity
Methodist Church by the Revs.
Charles Lancaster, L. D. Hay
man and E. B. Jordan Burial was
in Northwood Cemetery with
masonic rites. Members of Sudan
. Shrine Temple served as pallbear
ers.
Surviving are his widow, the
former Elizabeth Guthrie of
Southport; and three sisters of
Atlantic. . ,,
Republicans To
Meet Saturday
The Brunswick County Repub
lican party will hold their second
fish fry rally of the 1964 camp
aign Saturday night at Garland’s
Landing at Varnamtown with
Warren Coolidge of Fayetteville,
former Seventh District chair
man, as the featured speaker.
“We were well pleased with the
large turn-out we had for our
kick-off rally last month at
Sommersett Landing, but we
want even more county voters
to come out Saturday night,”
Chairman H. L. Willetts of Boli
via declared. 1 - ■ :
All citizens are invited to at
tend the rally Saturday night.
"We want all the people in
Brunswick county to help us elect
Republicans from the White
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< Six candidates have been named
to run in each of the six county
townships by the A SC County and
Community Committees, says
Manager Ralph L. Price of the
Agricultural Stabilization and Con
servation Service.
; The candidates were selected
Monday at a meeting in the Shal
lotte ASCS office. No petitions
were received by the groups.
Only three of the present 18
community committee members
decided not to seek re-election
this year. They include Horry Jen
Tette in Shallotte, H. O. Peterson,
. J*V W Northwest and Jimmy Ben
‘ t'on in Waecamaw. V **!*»£
The candidates in the six town
, ships for positions on the com
munity committees include:
Lockwoods Folly, A 1 d r e t h
Phelps, Neil Holden and W. Mc
Kinley Hewett, all incumbents,
and George Brown, Floyd Evans
and Edwin Sellers.
Shallotte, Curtis Hewett and
Howard Gore, both incumbents,
Arthur Bellamy, Clyde Benton,
Russell Grisset and Herman Long.
Northwest, Paul Brown and
George Skipper, both incumbents,
Ira Butler. Willie Peterson, Rufus
Stewart and Forest D. Williams.
Town Creek, Roy Willetts, Wil
liam Gore and Dan Watson, all
incumbents, and Elbert Knox,
Ellis Lewis and H. H. Simmons.
Smithville, Willie . Clemmons,
Ervin Monroe and J. A. Chatman,
all incumbents, and Leroy Bern
ard, Louie Cox and L. P. Rich
ardson.
Waecamaw, Roy W. Hughes and
Gardner King, both incumbents,
J. D. Long, Gardner McCumbee,
Buddie Smith and James Albert
Smith.
Ballots will be mailed to every
eligible voter in Brunswick Coun
ty on record by the county com
mittee at the ASCS office on
September. The ballots must be
returned to the Shallotte office or
postmarked not later than Sep
tember 11.
All ballots will be opened pub
lically and tabulated by the coun
ty committee in the ASCS office
on September 15 beginning at
8:30 a. m.
The man receiving the highest
Continued On Page Four
Superior Court
Suits Settled
Several cases were tried dur
ing the civil term of Brunswick
County Superior court last week
in Southport with Judge James
C. Farthing presiding.
The case of Virginia E. Hewett
versus Hartford Sylvester Robin
son was non-suited. In the auto
mobile accident case, the jury
ruled that Mrs. Hewett’s car was
damaged by the negligence of
Robinson but that she contributed
to the damages. Mrs. Hewett was
taxed court cost.
The case of George Kendrick
Gore by his next friend, Oree J.
Gore, versus Joseph Austin Gen
try was non-suited. The jury
ruled that Gore was not injured
by the negligence of Gentry. Gore
was taxed court cost.
In the case of Elbert Bongardt
by his next friend, Henry F. Bon
gardt, Jr., versus Leon Frink, the
parties agreed to compromise
their differences. Frink, without
admitting liability, offered to paq
Continued On Page 6
Faculty Complete
At Local School
For Fall Term
Seven members of the 22-teach
er faculty at Southport High
School are new this year, says
Principal L. R. Biggerstaff.
The new teacher at Southport
school include Mrs. Emily K. Sel
lers, Walker J. Grainger, Sanford
H. Lee, Mrs. Essie Liles Perry,
Miss Ellen J. Herndon, Mrs.
Katherine Lee, and Mrs. Olivia W.
Biggerstaff.
Mrs. Sellers, a Brunswick
county native, will teach math
this year. She is a graduate of
Shallotte High School and Wo
man’s College in Greensboro. He
taught at a junior high school
in Wilmington last year. She lives
in Supply.
Grainger, who is from Green. •
Sea, S. C., will serve as an in* *
structor in social science and!
English. He is a 1964 graduate of •
Coker College and this will be '
his first teaching assignment. He
is unmarried. '
Lee, a graduate of State Col- -
lege, will teach the seventh grade *
this year. He has served, seven"
years in the Army. He has been"
employed by schools in the Lill- '
ington area for the past several -
years.
Lee’s wife, Mrs. Katherine Lee, .
will teach the second grade this •
year. She is a graduate of Mer- ‘
edith College and has over 12 -
years of experience in the schools ]
of North Carolina.
Mrs. Perry will instruct the *
seventh grade. A native o f Gar-!
ner, she has been teaching school
for the past 25 years.
Miss Herndon, a native of
Fayetteville, will teach the third;
grade this year. She is a 1961
graduate of Flora McDonald and'
has been teaching in the schools'
of Cumberland county for the
past three years.
Mrs. Biggerstaff will teach the
fifth grade this year. She is a
graduate of East Carolina Col*
lege and has been teaching six
years.
Principal Biggerstaff, who Is
replacing Willard Cox as head
of the-Southport school* announ- • -
ced that T. M. Lee, eigrth grade
teacher and high school coach,
will serve as assistant principal
this year.
Southport gained a new teach- j
er this year when the State
Board of Education allotted the
school a full time home economics
teacher. Mrs. A. W. Taylor, who ■
served in the position last year,
will serve in the same capacity f
this year.
Because of the new teacher
this year, Principal Biggerstaff
said several courses will be of-i
fered for the first time in the!
field of social studies. The new
courses include world geography,!,
world history, and government ’
In addition, the school will offei
marine biology.
The returning teachers at
Southport High School include:
Continued On Page 6
Beer Vote Loses
At Long Beach
Long Beach voters rejected the
proposition to legalize the sale of
beer and wine inside the cor
porate limits of the town at a
special election Tuesday.
The vote was 68 against and 52
in favor of the proposal.
There were 130 persons re
gistered for this special election,
and of this number 120 cast their
ballot. This was a 92.3 percent
age of participation.
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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 27
10:29 A. M. 4:38 A. M.
10:49 P. M. 5:01 P. M.
Friday, August 28
11:22 A. M. 5:23 A. M.
11:40 P. M. 5:56 P. M.
Saturday, August 29
12:22 A. M. 6:14 A. M.
6:58 P. M.
Sunday, August 30
0:41 A. M. 7:14 A. M.
1:26 P. M. 8:07 P. M.
Monday, August 31
1:48 A. M. 8:19 A. M.
2:34 P. M. 9:17 P. M.
Tuesday, September 1,
2:58 A. M. 9:26 A. M.
3:41 P . M. 10:23 P. M.
Wednesday, September 2
4:07 A. M. 10:31 A. M.
4:44 P. M. 11:23 P. M.