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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County T STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of the News All The Time Volume 24 No. 28 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1965 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY At Long Beach In December BEACH SCENE— Sandra Lee Higgins of Greensboro is shown here with her sis ter, Cynthia, and borther, Walter, as they defied the calendar Thursday and went for a swim in the Atlantic in front of their family cottage at Long Beach. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Higgins of Greensboro. (Staff Photo by Allen). Adult Classes ] To Be Planned At Monday Meet A thJrd attempt to organize &'dult educational classes in sev eral commercial fishing subjects will be held at the Marineology Building in Southport Monday night at 7:30 o’clock. “Anyone interested in any com mercial fishing course should at tend the meeting to determine what subjects are In demand,” Southport Principal L. R. Big gerstaff declared. “If no one shows up, we will not be able to offer the courses. “We know that adults in the Southport area want to take courses in commercial fishing, but they must attend organizat ional meetings to let us know,” he continued. William A. Hurst, coordinator for the fishing programs in North Carolina and a representative of ' • the Industrial Educational Cen- ' ter in Morehead City, will attend ... the meeting to discuss the pro gram and answer question. :• ' Principal Biggerstaff, a membber of the local advisory committee> says courses in diesel mechanics, welding, piloting rigging and line splicing and net' mending will be discussed. At the end of the meeting, Prin cipal Biggerstaff added a survey will be made to determine what courses are preferred by the ma jority of the adults attending the meeting. If enough persons sign up, more than one course 'Will be offered. er He pointed out that several persons had requested that a course in diesel merchanics be > taught first. Only nominal fees will be charged for any of the courses. “Students must pay $4 for die sel mechanics but most of the (Continued On Page Four) *v ** of lNEWSJ VISIT PARENTS Mr. end Mrs. Jerry Sullivan have returned to Atlanta, Ga., after spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sullivan of Winnabow. They lived at Wrightsville Beach until July of this year. He is a student at the University of Georgia and she is teaching in Atlanta. GOSPEL SING The Leland Jaycees will spon sor a gospel sing at the school auditorium Thursday night at 8 o’clock. The program will feature the Speer Family of Nashville, Tenn., the Blue Ridge Quartet of Spartanburg, S. C., and the Trumpeteers of WWAY-TV. Pro ceeds from the event will be used to help light the baseball field. Final Touches On Shallotte System Engineers will throw the swit ches and open valves that send fresh, pure water rushing into 200 or more homes from the new $121,000 municipal water system in Shallotte next week. The Shallotte water works has been financed by a bond issue and a federal grant. It was sched uled to be in operation by Novem ber, but construction delays forced the completion date to af ter the new year. Construction 'Foreman L. C. At well of Charlotte said final oper ations began last Wednesday to open the system next week. Work ers 'began filling the 100,000 gal lon storage tank, sterilizing the water and preparing the lines to the homes hooked into the sys tem. Foreman Atwell said it takes 30 hours for pumps in the two 45 foot wells to fill the towering sil ver tank. “This is what we figur ed it would be”, he added. Foreman Atwell said that wa ter was being pulled from both wells at separate times via a ro tation process that continued when the system 'became op erable. Pumps in each well are cap able of jetting 45 gallons per minute to the storage reservoir. Foreman Atwell said water con taining sterilizing chemicals must remain in the big tank 72 hours and then all lines will be flushed, “One the lines are steri lized, we then need 30 addi tional hours to refill the storage tank,” Atwell said. “When the tank is full again, the system will be cut into operation.” “This is what this town has needed for a long time,” Mayor Ronnie Cheers remarked as he checked the two pumping stations and mains. Voters, in a second effort at the polls, approved the $121,OOC bond issue in November 1963. A proposed $100,000 bond issue for the water system had been de feated overwhelming the previous February. Construction on the project began last June, Cheers outlined, The plant is located on twc property sites — a well on eact — owned by the town in northerr section of the municipality. Inside the main pumping sta tion, in the shadow of the huge storage tank, are four chemica vats containing ingredients tha must be added to keep the watei crystal pure. Primarily, the town water sup ply will be cleansed with chlorine plus treatment to eliminate “i substantial amount of iron.” Customers, including Shallotte High School — the largest ex pected user —will pay for watei on a sliding monthly rate whicl provides the first 2,000 gallons for $3.50, the second 3,000 gal Ions for 50 cents per 1,000 gal Ions and additional gallonage a (Continued On Page 4) M-i ENSIGN PHILIP KING Southport Man Is Navy Ensign Ensign Philip King, HI was graduated as a qualified Navy £ Frogman from Underwater Dem olition ' Team Training,' U. S. , Naval Amphibious School, Little Creek, Va., on January 6. Ens. King received his com mission on April 17, 1964 upon completion of Officers Candidate School at Newport, R. I., and chose UDT as his Navy specialty. From a group of 90 especially selected officers arid enlisted men .who started in Class 32, only 18 Americans and 5 foreign officers ... completed the course. The^foreign officers will return to their re spective countries to act as in structors. In addition to class , work, UDT training included the Marine Corps Physical Fitness program; demolition practice off Puerto Rico, completion of the jump course at the Army Air borne School, Fort Benning, Ga., Continued On Page Four Name Winners In Lighting Contest i Winners have been announced ; for the outdoor lighting contest . sponsored this year by the South port Garden Club. They are as . follow: Living Tree — Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Parker, 1st, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Russ, 2nd, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson, 3rd. Overall Decoration — Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bowman, 1st, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Hardee, 2nd, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Willing, 3rd. Doorways — Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Burdette, 1st; Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Livingston, 2nd; Hr. and Continued On Page Four College-Career Day Thursday,; Of Next Week “The Door To Your Future” is the theme of the College — Ca reer Day to be held at Bolivia High School on Thursday, Jan uary 14. About 400 juniors and seniors from the five white schools in Brunswick county will have the opportunity to meet and talk with career and college rep resentatives. With the presnt day need for post —high school edu cation the program is planned as an inspirational and informative program to fill the needs of Brunswick county students. The first assembly will begin at 9:15 with W. N. Williams, assist ant supt. of Schools, i8 charge. The Southport Glee Club and the Waccamaw Glee Club will furnish music for the first assembly. Dr. Warren Land, president of South eastern Community College, will give the keynote address. Others participating in the first assem bly program will be Rev. James A. Starnes, Thotna's Davis, princ cipal of Bolivia Iligh School, and Superintendent7 of Brunswick County Schoools, A. W. Taylor. There will be" three' sessions from 10:15 until 11:55 at which time the students will meet with representatives of Agriculture and Forestery, Atlantic Christian College, Cape Fear Technical In stitute, Campbell College, Cho wan College, East Carolina, Guil ford College, Law Enforcement, Methodist College, Miller-Motte Business College, Fayetteville Technical Institute, Nursing, Pembroke State College, Armed Services, Southeastern Commun ity College, St. Andrews, Trout mans, UNO Chapel Hill, UNC Raleigh, Wesleyan College, Wil mington College and Wingate. After lunch at 12:48 there will be a second general assembly session at which time the ILeland Glee Club and the Bolivia Mel lonettes will fctiarv Marshall Du -Vall, Empk • .» Security Com*" mission o' rialeig i will speak on (Continued On Page Four) Southport Boy Buried Tuesday Southport was steeped in sorrow Tuesday afternoon as activity in this community came to a halt for the funeral of a 14-year old boy who died Sunday night of in juries sustained last Tue'sday in a go-cart accident. John E. Brown, the eon of Clerk of Court and Mrs. Jack E. Brown, died at James Walker Memorial Hospital in Wilmington after a gallant fight for life against odds which from the first appeared to foe overwhelming. Offices and business firms closed their doors and Trinity Methodist Church, where he had once server as an acolyte, was fill ed to overflowing by friends of the family from throughout the coun ty. In the congregation were his classmates of the ninth grade at Southport High School, who sat in a body during the service, then formed a cordon of honor as the •body was carried from the church. Members of the South port High School football squad of which he was a member last fall as a freshman also were present. The Rev. Robert Childs, pas tor of Southport Presbyterian Church, was in charge of the fun (Continued On Page Four) Stevens Meets The Commissioners 7 ARRIVES—Roy Stevens, executive secretary of the Brunswick County Re sources Development Commission, is shown here being welcomed to his new post by G, T, Rourk, chairman of the board of county commissioners during the meeting of that body Monday. Looking at the left is T. S. Bowmer, Clemit Holden, Re sources Development Chairman William Powell and Register of Deed Durwood Gla,rk. Seated are D. B. Frink and Parley FormyDuval. (Staff Photo by Allen). New Electrical Inspector Has > Plans For Work For the first time ever, Bruns wick county has a full-time, county-wide electrical inspector. 'Harry Sell of Southport was ap pointed to the new position Mon day at the regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners. He will begin his new duties Mon-, day. His appointment abolishes the old system of having electrical inspectors in each of the six town ships. $itow ali work done by elec tractors. and_i*ltvidusJs JwiJl bo under the supervision of one man, Sell. , ^The system was changed be cause of' the numerous com-' plaints from citizens in the coun ty, concerning the township-based inspectors. The commissioners discussed the situation ' several times and talked with electrical contractors in the county about the changes that could be made. Assistant State Electrical Inspec tor O. B. Maddrey met with the board to discuss the situation, f Sell was one of the electrical contractors who was called be fore the board to give recommen dations. He was offered the posi tion without applying, and accept ed. “My responsibility is to see that home owners receive their money’s worth and that electrical wiring is done in a safe man ner,” Sell said about hi's new po sition. “Electrical contractors will benefit because of added dignity and the elimination of unqualified men.” - Sell and Maddrey are working with the board at the present time to update the electrical code in the county. When completed, it will serve as a guideline for con tractors and inspector. Sell realizes he has a difficult' job to perform. He plans to meet with all county electrical and' building contractors soon to . es tablish a schedule for visiting each of the townships during each week. “Of course I will be ready for rush jobs in any of the town . . (Continued On Page 4) ! ' TIME and TIDE 1 . i It was January 6, 1960, and 34 persons, including: 24 passen gers and 5 crew members, were scattered over 25 acres of the Richard Randolph farm when a National Airlines plane crashed near Bolivia Wednesday morning. . , Lt. Colonel Johnnie D. Duffie of Columbia, South Carolina, assumed command of Sunny Point Army Terminal. Miss Mary Katherine Hevener became the bride of Charles Edward Blake of Southport in Virginia Saturday. It was January 5, 1955, and Barbees, Inc., purchased a 200-acre tract of land from E. F, Middleton near Fort Caswell highway and on both sides of the Bong' Beach highway. Because of good catches here, most Brunswick shrimpers decided not to go to Florida for the winter. Senator Ray Walton and Representative Kirby Sullivan, both serving their first terms, left Tuesday to represent Bruns wick county in the General Assembly. Mrs. M. H. Rourk of Shallotte was chairman of the March of Dimes drive in the county. , • v ... , . , It was January 4, 1950, and members of the Board of Commissioners endorsed a proposal to have the River Road designated on all highway maps as U. S. 17-A. Rev. Taft Hewett of Ash was named to head the March of Dimes drive in the county. (Continued On Page 4) Commissioners Act On Inspector Job CLAUDE H. FERRELL, Brunswick NCEA Discusses Plan The 1965 educational program which will be presented to the General Assembly this year was discussed this afternoon (Wednes day) at a special meeting of the Brunswick county unit of the North Carolina Educational As sociation at Bolivia High School. - Claude H. Ferrell, NCEA direc tor of lay relations, was the speaker at the county teachers’ meeting. He has been active in education in North Carolina since 1929, serving for more than 10 years on the State Board of Edu cation. . He was a high school teacher and .principal in Surry county from 1929 to 1933. He resigned his active teaching to become a merchant in • Elkin, a position he has held for the past 25 years. Ferrell served on the Elkin City School board for 10 years. He received appointments to the State Board of Education from Governors Kerr Scott and 'Luther Hodges. Ferrell is a graduate of David son College and the University of North Carolina. He was selected the most outstanding young man in the state in 1942 by the North Carolina Junior Chamber of Com merce. Leland Principal Rockfellow Venters, president of the Bruns wick NCEA, was in charge of the program. County Officials Meet In Burgaw County commissioners, ac countants, attorneys and other county officials from 6 North Carolina counties are scheduled to attend a district meeting of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners in Burgaw next Wednesday. The meeting is to begin at 10 a. m. and will continue until mid-afternoon. All local arrangements are being carried out by the county com missioners of Pender county. In addition to the host county, other counties scheduled to attend in clude Brunswick, Duplin, New (Continued On Page Four) Members of the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners were introduced to Roy Stevens, director of the newly established Resource? Development Commis sion, named the first county-wide electrical inspector and handled other business at its first meet ing of the year 1965 in Southport Monday. “I am setting up my office and learning all 1 can about Bruns wick county' in - order to build a sales package,” Stevens- told the board-- . - Stevens, who accepted the po sition of director of the first commissioner in December, started to work Monday. His of fice is located in the Goodman Building in Southport. Resources Development com mission Chairman W i 11 i a m Powell of Southport introduced Stevens to the members of the board of commissioners. He ask the commissioners to travel around their areas of the county with Stevens and introduce him to residents of their townships. Stevens said he realized he has a difficult task to perform. ‘‘It is a slow, tedious job that puts gray hair in your head tout I won’t leave a stone unturned in searching for industry for Bruns wick county,” he declared. During his travels around the county, Stevens said he planned to meet with the owners of the sewing plants in Shallotte find Ash and see what he can do to help them. The commissioners hired Harry Sell of Southport as the first full-time, county-wide electrical inspector and established a fee system to pay his salary. The new post will eliminate the form er system which provided for electrical inspectors on a town ship basis. The motion to employ Sell was made toy Thomas Bowmer and seconded toy D. Bert Frink. It was unanimously approved.' . The Board accepted and ap proved a petition signed toy 19 persons asking for improvements on the Fork Road in Waccamaw township. It was sent on to the State Highway Commission. (Continued On Page Four) Plan Series Of Swine Programs There will he a series of swine meetings 'beginning on January 28 and on each Thursday night thereafter until February 18 at the Extension Service Building in Supply, reports Burnett Coleman, assistant agricultural extension agent. This will be four meetings to be put on by livestock agents in Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus and Robeson counties. They will be gin at 7:30 each Thursday night. Topics to be covered include “Outlook and Economics,” “Breeding”, “Feeding”, and "Management and Housing”. The conclusion to these meetings will be an area meeting of the four counties participating to be held at the Extension Building in ■; Whiteville with Dr. I. D. Potter- ' field, Head of Animal Science De partment at N. C. State as the speaker. More information will be coming out on these meetings. Convention For Soil Group At Blockade Runner The 20th Annual Convention of the North Carolina Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors will be held at the Blockade Runner Motel at Wrightsville Beach Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. James Bellamy, Jr., of Shal lotte, will be presiding at his last convention before going out of of fice Wednesday as state presi dent. “This will be our group's first convention ever held in South eastern North Carolina,’’ Presi dent Bellamy pointed out. “I want to invite all interested Brunswick county citizens to attend the con vention if they can.” The main business of the three day meeting will be to elect new state offices and discuss conser vation practices. The future pros pects of American Beach grass to control erosion will be examined in deatail. The featured speaker of the convention will be Dr. John T. Caldwell, cliancillor of State Col lege. The Raleigh man will ad dress the group Tuesday. President Bellamy said he ex pects more than 400 persons to attend the convention. “We have reservations from people all over North Carolina for the meetings,” he added. * Some members of the Bruns- " wick county delegation expected to attend the convention include “ Bryan Smith, Clarence Lennon, T Ed Clemmons and Worth Mercer all county soil supervisors; Soil 3 Conservationist Billy Foutz of - Shallotte; County Agent A. S. Knowles of Bolivia; and ASCS ! Manager Ralph Price- of Shal- ' lotte. 1 ' Increase Made ^,-JaIeIephones_, “The Southport-Long Beach area gained about 10O new tele phones during 1964;” said H. F. Kincaid, Southern Bell manager in Wilmington, announced this week. The Southport-Long Beach area now has over 1,290 telephones, compared to 1,189 one year ago. Five years ago Southport had 913 telephones, part of which were transferred to the Long Beach ex change that was established in May, 1983. Kincaid said that the Southport Long Beach residents kept in close touch with their local neigh bors, for they made 4,954 local telephone calls on an average day in 1964. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company came close to gaining a record number ot telephones in North Carolina dur ing 1964. Only one time in its 85 year history has this year’s gain of 49,000 been topped. John J. Ryan, Southern Bell’s vice presi dent and general manager, states that this year’s gain of 49,000 telephones will being Southern Bell’s total to approximately 823,000 in North Carolina of which about 75 percent have access to direct distance dialing. The new push button telephones which are called Touch-Tone were introduced in Laurinburg, Salisbury, and Morganton and will 'be introduced in other cities during 1965. Southern Bell’s North Carolina rates were reduced by over a mil lion dollars in 1964. This was the (Continued On Page Four) I l ide 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, January 7 10:30 A. M. 4:27 A. M. 10:44 P. M. 5:11 P. M. Friday, January 8 11:09 A. M. 5:09 A. M. 11:31 P. M. 5:53 P. M. Saturday, January 9 11:54 A. M. 5:58 A. M. 6:39 P. M. Sunday, January 10 0:26 A. M. 6:56 A. M. 12:46 P. M. 7:33 P. M. Monday, January 11 1:26 A. M. 8:02 A. M. 1:46 P. M. 8:31 P. M. Tuesday, January 12 2:32 A. M. 9:13 A. M. iV2:52 P. M. 9:33 P. M. Wednesday, January 13 3:38 A. M. 10:20 A. M. 3:58 P. M. 10:34 P. M.