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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1965
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Harold Kincaid and Beverly Howard
Delivers Tax Check
Southern Bell Telephone Company delivered a check for $7,452.89 last week
to Brunswick County Tax Department as payment for their 1964 taxes.
H. F. Kincaid, Southern Bell’s Manager in Wilmington personally handed the
check to Miss Beverly Howard, clerk in the Southport office.
This $7,452.89 payment by Southern Bell stays here in Southport and Bruns
wick County and helps provide schools, Law Enforcement and sanitation.
This payment is part of an estimated $11,115,000 total tax bill which
Southern Bell will pay to the state of North Carolina and its municipalities and
counties for the year 1964. This estimate doesn’t include income, social security
and excise tax payment to the Federal government. Kincaid said, “We estimate
that Southern Bell will pay $15, 805,000 in Federal taxes and collect $8,954,469
for the Government in Federal excise taxes.
“When these payments are included,” said Kincaid, “approximately 30< of
every dollar paid by the telephone user for telephone service goes for taxes.”
Jail Condition
Good According
To Inspector
The Brunswick County jail
in Southr'.-’t has been rated by
the State to be In good con
dition as far as maintenance
and supervision are concerned,
says Deputy H. G. Ratcliffe.
“This is a very old jail and
the sheriff and jailers are do
ing a very good Job considering
what they have to work with,"
State Inspector of Correctional
Institutions Edward S. Stevens
wrote to Sheriff E. V. Leonard
after making a full Inspection
of the county jail last fall.
But he warned that work must
be done to keep the standards
high. “It is only a matter
of time before the jail will fail
to meet the state standards and
planning and consideration should
be given to the construction of
a jail not too far in the future",
Stevens said.
The Brunswick county Jail
is 101 years old, having been
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ATTEND SCHOOL
County Commissioner Thomas
S. Bowmer and Tax Collector
Bobby White are attending
a three-day school for county
officials this week at the Institute
of Government in Chapel Hill.
BENEFIT BARBECUE
A pit-cooked buffet - style bar
becue supper will be served at
Zion Methodist church Saturday
starting at 6:30 p. m. The Church
is located on US 17 at Town
Creek. Proceeds will go to the
building fund.
TO OREGON
James D. Bellamy, Jr., of
Shallotte, past president of the
North Carolina Soil Conservation
Association, will attend the
group's national convention in
Portland, Oregon, Sunday through
Thursday as a member of the
state delegation.
AT YAUPON BEACH ’
Effective February 1, the of
fice of the Town of Yaupon Beach
will be located at the corner
of Yaupon Drive and Norton
Street in office space leased from
C. E. Murphy. Regular monthly
meetings will be held the first
Monday evening of each month.
All interested persons are urged
to attend.
Long Beach Fox
Round-Up Plans
More than 5,000 people are
expected to gather at Long
Beach when the fifth annual
Washington’s Birthday Fox
Round-up casts out February 19,
20, and 22.
W. L. (Lock) Cameron of
Vass has been named Master
of the Hounds for the 1955
round-up.
Cameron expressed the
belief that this year’s event
will be the biggest hunt ever held
at Long Beach. "There wUl be
no limit to the number of hounds
and no entry fee this year,”
he announced. "This should
lead to a record number of foxes
tailed during the round-up.”
Registration for the hounds
and hunters will start at the
Town Hall on Thursday, February
18, with the first cast-out
early Friday. Another set of
chases Is scheduled for both
Saturday and Monday, with the
celebrated Hound’s Hair and
Chowder feed on the beach
Saturday evening.
The Washington Birthday Fox
Hunt at Long Beach was rated
as one of the top 20 travel
event In the United States by
the National Association of
Travel Organizations In 1964.
Four Injured
In Auto Wreck
Four Southport young men
were admitted to Dos her
Memorial hospital with Injuries
suffered In a one-car accident
near the Ice Plant early Sat
urday morning according to
Police Chief Herman Strong.
Paul Cochran, 26, the driver
Albert Rogers, 25, Dickie Mar
lowe, 27, and Horace Sellers, 28,
are In Dosher Memorial hos
pital with cuts and abraisons.
Cochran also had a back In
jury. Some 40 stitches were
needed to close a cut on Mar
lowe’s head. Tommy McKeithan,
17, another passenger In the
car, escaped without Injury.
Chief Strong called It the
worst accident In Southport In
the past five years In which no
one was killed.
Chief Strong said Cochran's
1964 automobile was trying to
make the curve on Leonard
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Contestant
DIANNE WARTH
Southport Girl
Enters Contest
A senior at Southport High
School has been selected the
1965 Betty Crocker Homemaker
Tomorrow at Southport and will
compete lor state and national
honors, Mrs. A. W. Taylor, home
economics teacher, announced
Monday.
Miss Susan Dianne Warth,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Warth of Yaupon Beach, was se
lected as the Southport winner
as a result of a written home
making examination given to the
senior girls at the school De
cember 1. ;
Test papers of all school
Homemakers of Tomorrow In
North Carolina are currently be
ing judged, with the state's high
est-ranking girl receiving a
$1,500 scholarship from General
Mills, Inc., sponsor of the an
nual Betty Crocker Search for
the American Homemaker of To
morrow, and the state’s runner
up being awarded a $500 educa
tional grant. In addition, the
school of the State Homemaker
of Tomorrow will receive a com
plete set of the Encyclopaedia
Brltannica from Encyclopaedia
Brltannlca, Inc.
Later this spring, the State
Homemaker of Tomorrow, to
gether with a school asvlsor,
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County Board
Meeting Held
Here Monday
A routine meeting of the Bruns
wick County Board of Commis
sioners was held In Southport
Monday.
Ralph C. King, J. R. Corbett
and L. H. Stanley were re
appointed to membership on the
Resources Development Com
mission. Their new terms wilt
expire on March 3,1968. The mo-*
tlon for the action was made by
D. B. Frink and seconded by Par
ley FormyDuval.
The board voted to give all
county employees a holiday on
Washington's Birthday, February
22.
A delegation of about 15
persons came before the board
protesting the firing of Mrs.
Ester Robinson as the health
nurse In Shallotte. They said they
had a petition with 700 names
demanding that she be re-hlred.
The boar! was Informed by
County Attorney E. J. Prevatte
that they had no authority to act
on the matter. He suggested that
the delegation visit the board of
health.
The board recommended that
five county residents be named
Rabies Inspectors In the town
ships. The list was sent to Dr.
John Black, the county health
officer. The recommendations
Included Goley Lewis, Northwest
and Town Creek; H. T. Bowmer,
Smlthvllle; Lindsey Clemmons,
Lockwoods Folly and the south
side of US 17 in Shallotte; and
,H. E. Gore, Waccamaw and the
north side of US 17 In Shallotte.
The board received a petition
asking that the state take over the
Big Tar road, a dirt road In the
Lockwoods Folly township. The
request was sent to the State
Highway Commission.
The board heard a con
tractor's report that It will re
quire an expenditure of about
$20,000 to make improvements
In the Brunswick County Boarding
Home to bring It up to require
ments set by the State.
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Draw Jury List
For Civil Term
A group of Brunswick county
residents have been selected for
Jury duty during the civil term
of Brunswick Cone?/ Superior
court which begins February 22.
The names Include:
Norman E. Mints, James
W. Ganey, Ernest F. Watson,
John A. Cook, Lester E. Nay
lor and Robert Jerry Sullivan,
all of Lelan$ W. Lawrence He
wett, Legrand W. Redwine, Floyd
L. Inman, Carson Varnum, Henry
C. Stone, A. W, Bradsher, Eld
ridge, Ludlum and Ozie Frink,
all of Shallotte.
D. S. Carlisle, George An
drews, Herman L. Phelps,
Eugene Sally, Harold Varnum,
J. Edward Calson and R. C.
Bellamy, all of Supply; R. I.
Long and Vonnie C. Long, both
of Ash; Jesse Long, S. R. Evans,
Roddle Bennett, and O. D. Pruitt;
all of Freeland.
Fred Full wood, W. Carl Mc
Kelthan, D. L. Mercer, and
L. L. Edwards, Sr., all of Bo
livia; William Butler of Ocean
Drive Beach, S. C.: Robert
Toomer of Navassa, and Wil
liam Connie Jones, F. H. Swain,
Jr., and Kenneth Poteat, all of
Southport.
Diesel Class
At Waccamaw
A course In diesel mechanics
for adults will be made available,
if sufficient interest exist to
Justify the course at Waccamaw
High School. A minimum of 10
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Marines Embark At Sunny Point Wharf
At Sunny Point
Big Boost To Local Economy
Manager Reports
At Long Beach
The new Town Manager of Long
Beach, Donald Archer, former
assistant city manager of Chapel
Hill, reported to work Monday
morning.
"I like Long Beach very much
Indeed,” Archer declared, “but I
did not expect the snow Sunday.”
Archer, 35, replaces Dan L.
Walker In the Long Beach post.
Walker held the position for four
years before resigning In Novem
ber.
The new Long Beach official Is
a native ofBtnghanton,NewYork.
After graduating from high
school, served seven years
in the Army. He took part In
the Korean; War for about 16
months and was discharged a,
first lieutenant.
He then entered the University
of North Carolina, graduating
with a A.B. degree in political
science. He spent one year at
the Chapel Hill law school, be
ing a classmate of Southport
Attorney David Blackwell.
In October of 1961, Archer
accepted the position of part-time
assistant town manager of Chapel
Hill while completing his studies
at the University. When he grad
uated in February of 1962, he took
the job on a full time basis.
He took a Municipal Adminis
tration six month course con
ducted by the Institute of Govern
ment at the university last year.
He also had graduate credits at
the school, but not enough for
another degree.
Archer is married to the form
er Miss Alta Barger of Oakboro
and they have one daughter, Dona
Gayle, 21 months. The Archers
live on Winston-Salem Avenue In
Long Beach.
New Policeman
On Local Force
Former Shallotte Police
man William V. (Bill) Morgan,
Jr., began work as assistant po
lice chief of Southport Monday,
Chief Herman Strong announced
this week.
Morgan, 29-year old native of
Raleigh, will replace Edward D.
Kelly, who resigned Iasi month
to re-enter the Army.
Morgan has served as town
policeman in Shallotte for the
past several years. He was a
member of the Cary police force
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Time And Tide
It was February 3, 1960, and LeRoy Mintz of Shallotte, T. M. Lee
"Of Southport, Mrs. Madge B. Smith of Leland, Mrs. Pearl McNeil
of Bolivia and Mrs. Zelma Hewett of Waccamaw were all candidates
for teacher of the year honors in Brunswick county.
Brunswick’s first traffic fatality of the year 1960 occurred Sat
urday when Mrs. Rebecca Sellers of Winnabow was killed on her
way to the family mail box on US 17. Influenza was bordering upon
epidemic proportions in all areas of the county. Shallotte football
coach Gene Wlnfree was selected the first Waccamaw Athletic
Association coach of the year.
It was February 2, 1955, and H. A. Livingston of Southport, a
former mayor and member of the board of aldermen, was named
temporary superintendent of streets and public utilities, succeeding
the late R. L. Brendle.
Senator Ray Walton and Representative Kirby Sullivan opposed
executive meetings In the General Assembly, but it was defeated.
The Southport Savings and Loan Association set a million dollars
In total assets as the goal for 1955. Louis J. Hardee and Captain
Sandy Simmons went to Florida to pick up the second of four
trawlers.
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DONALD ARCHER
Two Youngsters
Are Safe Here
Rescue operations for two
small boys were organized In
the Swamp Garden area of South
port Friday morning, but the
youngsters had only gone to visit
a relative.
Michael Fullwood, 3, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Fullwood,
and Joe Oots, son of Mrs. Mary
Sue Oots, the objects of the
search, walked from their home
at the Oaks Apartments to Dosher
Memorial Hospital to visit an
employee, Mrs. E. F. (Skeet)
Gore, Fu-lwood’s aunt.
When she discovered the boys
at the hospital by themselves,
Mrs. Gore immediately took
them home.
But a rescue operation had al
ready been organized when the
boys were reported missing, In
the Swamp Garden, an area be
hind their homes. The Southport
Rescue Squad, aided by students
at Southport school, had been
searching the area for about
a half-hour when Mrs. Gore
brought the boys home. The
Squad had answered an alarm
at 19:45 a. m.
Parents of the children, Mr.
and Mrs. Fulwood and Mrs. Oots,
expressed their grateful appre
ciation to members of the rescue
squad for their speedy response
to the distress call. “1 don't
know where all of them came
from or how they got here that
fast," said Mrs. Oots,"but It
sure was nice to see them."
New Equipment
For Southport
Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany Vice President and General
Manager John J. Ryan has an
nounced plans for one of the
largest expenditures on con
struction in the company’s 85
year history, approximately
$40,000,000 for 1965. This is
$160,000 each working day for
construction In 1965.
Commenting on the Company's
plans, Ryan said, "With a near
record gain of 50,000 telephones
last year, we must continue to
gear for 1965's Industrial and
residential growth In North Caro
lina. Plans call for part of the
construction money to be spent
in every exchange In North Caro
lina."
H. F. Kincaid, Southern Bell
Manager in Wilmington, said that
1965 should prove to be a year of
continued growth and progress
for Southport and Brunswick
county also.
"We plan to change all of the
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Sunny Point Army Terminal,
which is located on the west
bank of the Cape Fear River
approximately five miles north
of Southport, continued to exert
a considerable Influence on the
economy of the area during
calendar year 1964.
During this period, the Ter
minal had 165 full time Civil
Service employees on Its pay
roll, and disbursed $1,144,617.
In salaries to these employees.
The majority of these employ
ees permanently reside In
Brunswick and New Hanover
Counties, and therefore this
money Is mainly absorbed In
the local economy.
Lt. Colonel Archie B. Joyner
Jr., who resides lwth the other
military personnel at Fort
Johnston In Southport, com
mands Sunny Point.
Sunny Point Army Terminal
otherwise known as SPART,
has as Its main mission the
loading and/or discharging am
munition or explosive cargo,
and during 1964 proceeded 131,
000 tons of cargo through SP
ART, and in addition handled
an additional 10,000 tons throu
gh the Port of Wilmington.
This cargo Is loaded aboard
or discharged from vessels by
longshoremen who report to
the Terminal on an as needed
basis, and as the type of com
modity being handled is con
sidered hazardous cargo, these
longshoremen are paid prem
ium pay for their labor. During
the year, about $1,131,000 was
paid In wages to these long
shoremen.
As these personnel also re
side In the Wilmlngton/South
port area, these monies are
for the most part spent In
this locale.
It Is obvious that to support
an operation of this magnitude
wherein more than $2,000,000
was spent in direct labor costs,
other substantial costs would
accrue for services, supplies,
and equipment. Some examples
of expenditures within the local
area are as follows;
Procurement of supplies or
services required for main
tenance of all Terminal facili
ties and equlpment-$108,000.
Payment to rail crews-For
operation of the Terminal's
rallroad-$65,000.
Tug fees-For docking and
undocking vessels-$12,000.
Pilot fees-For docking and
undocking vessels-$17,000.
While as previously mention
ed SPART’s main mission Is
the handling of ammunition and
explosive cargo, the Terminal
did In fact accomplish the equal
ly Important function of military
training and In outloadlng per
sonnel, supplies and equipment.
Examples of this are as fol
lows;
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Resigns From
Red Cross Job
Mrs. Philip King has resigned
as Home Services Representa
tive and Herman Strong has taken
over these duties which, In the
future, will be known as Service
to Military Families.
Mrs. King has served long
and faithfully as Home Services
Representative, and the Bruns
wlch County Chapter is deeply
Indebted to her for her unselfish
and hard work during all these
years," Chairman Martin said
In announcing her resignation.
Mrs. Charles Blake has re
signed as chairman of the Grey
Ladies and Mrs. Leslie R. Bel
lows will assume this position,
according to A. A. Martin, chair
man of the Brunswick County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross.
Feed Grain To \
Start Sign-Up :
In ASC Office;
Farmers taking part in the
1935 feed grain program may
jet the top rate of payment on
:he entire acreage diverted into
:onservlng uses if they sign up
ind actually divert at least 40
percent of the farm’s feed grain
Jase, Manager Ralph L. Price
)f the Agricultural Stabilization
ind Convervation Service in
lhallotte reminded growers
ruesday.
The sign up will begin Monday
it the ASCS office and run until
March 26, but no advanced pay
nents will be made for the
'irst few days because the funds
lave not been appropriated. “Just
is soon as we receive the money
we will start making payments/’
Manager Price added.
“The key figures for estlmat
ng diverted acres and diversion
Jayments are 20, 40, and 50,
Manager Price explained. “The
nlnimum diversion under the
teed grain program is 20 per
:ent of the feed grain base,
rhe maximum diversion is 50
percent of the base. And there
are two diversion - payment
rates.’* ,
If the grower signs up and
liverts only the minimum acre
age, his diversion payment will
>e figured at the lower rate
>ne-fifth of the county’s total
jrice-support rate or the price
support loan plus the price-sup
»rt payment.
If the grower diverts between
20 and 40 percent of his base,
:he lower rate applies to the
nlnimum diversion and the
ligher rate to the balance
iiverted. The higher rate is
me-half the county’s total sup
port rate.
But if the grower signs up
ind actually diverts at least 40
jercent of the base, the higher
'ate will apply to the entire
icreage diverted.
“Farmers signing up in both
he wheat and feed grain pro
jrams may divert either feed
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New Employees
In Department
Two new employees have re
:ently been hired by the
3 runs wick Board of Health
tor work tn the Shallotte office,
3r. John R. Black, county health
officer, announced Tuesday.
Miss Esther G. Moore has been
named public health nurse In the
Shallotte office while Phillip H,
Yount will serve as a sanitarian
aid.
Miss Moore, a native of Whlte
vllle, will replace Mrs. Esther
Robinson In the Shallotte post.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Moore of Whitevllle,
she is a 1961 graduate of the
Southeastern General Hospital In
Lumberton. Mrs. Moore has been
employed at the Columbus Coun
ty Hospital as a surgical nurse
since graduation. She will con
tinue to live In Whitevllle, com
ing to Shallotte dally.
Yount, a native of Brunswick
county, wlU replace David Buck
ner as the sanitarian aid In the
ShaUotte office. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Yount of
Bolivia. ' *.
Yount, 26, is a 1956 graduate
of Bolivia High School. He has
attended Wilmington Junior Col
lege and East Carolina College.
This Is his first Job In the
public health fielcf.
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, February 4
9:31 A. M. 3:29 A. M.
9:41 P. M. 4:04 P. M.
Friday, February 5
10:03 A. M. 4:08 A. M.
10:20 P. M. 4:41 P. M.
Saturday, February 6
10:40 A. M. 4:50 A. M.
11:06 P. M. 5:20 P. M.
Sunday, February 7
11:24 A. M. 5:37 A. M.
6:05 P. M.
Monday, February 8
0:59 A. M. 6:32 A. M.
12:16 P. M. 6:58 P. M.
Tuesday, February 9
12:59 A.M. 7:38 A.M.,
1:18 P.M. 8:00 P.M.
Wednesday, February 10
? a. M. 8:50 A. M.
2:29 P. M. 9:07 P. M.