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Volume 24
No. 47
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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, May 5, 1965
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First Customer At Boat Harbor
No. 1—Robert W. McArthur of Charlotte is shown here in the cockpit of his
33-ft yacht handing a check to Manager H. A. Schmidt at the Southport Small
Boat Harbor as he becomes the first cash customer of that facility. His craft is
the Daedalus and he plans to leave her here until fall. (Photo by Dosher).
Board Of Education
Names
All of the principals of Bruns
wick county schools have been
retained for another school year
with final action involving two
of these positions coming at the
meeting of the Brunswick County
Board of Education Monday night.
Rockfeller Venters will be back
at Leland and Winfred Johnson
will return to Shallotte as prin
cipal.
For the second time within one
week a public hearing was held by
the board in the court room and
gguM* natrons from Leland High School
and Shallotte High school were
heard with regard to the future
of their respective principals.
Venters has been under lire at
the former school and the local
committee at Shallotte had failed
to re-elect Johnson.
‘•^After hearing numerous per
sons speak In support of the two
men, and after two members of
the board of education had given
their own views of the situation
within their own school district,
the board returned to the down
stairs office to take final action
on these questions.
Delmas Babson moved to re
hire Venters If the principal
is willing to work with Board
Chairman James Thompson and
a local committee that has been
divided in Its opinion about re
taining his services. The motion
was seconded by O. K. Bellamy
and was passed unanimously.
When the question of the Shal
lotte High School principal was
considered, Arthur J. Dosher
made the motion that Johnson
be rehired and the motion was
seconded by Babson. On the vote,
It carried three for, one op
posed and one abstaining. In ef
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BAKE SALE
Members of the WSCS of
Trinity Methodist church will
hold a bake sale on the side
walk near the post office Sat
urday morning starting at 9
o’clock.
WINS THIRD PLACE
Delmas Holmes, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Holmes of
Shallotte, was third place win
ner in the annual SENC Spelling
Bee sponsored by the Wilmington
Star-News Saturday in Wilming
ton. Phyllis Williams of Lincoln
High School was seventh place
winner.
CAR WASH
The Southport Sub-Junior
Woman’s Club will hold a car
wash Saturday morning, starting
at 9:30 near the water tank. All
cars will be swept out and washed
for a nominal charge and pro
ceeds will be used to send mem
bes
bers to the State convention this
summer.
BENEFIT SUPPER
The Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church
of Supply will sponsor a benefit
barbecue andchicken-bogged-in
rice supper on Saturday at
the educational building of the
church from 5 to 9 p. m. Home
made cakes and pies will also
be on sale. The proceeds will
go to the New Church Building
Fund.
Two Principals
Jaycee Of The Year
HONORED—Mrs. G. W. Fisher, left, beams ap
proval as her husband accepts the award for being
Jaycee of the Year for the local organization. On the
right is Bobby Jones, last year’s winner, who made
the award. (Photo by Dosher).
Ask Applications
For Postmaster
An examination for Postmas
ter at Southport for a $6650 a
year salary will be open for ac
ceptance of applications until May
25, the Commission announced
this week.
This position became vacant
on April 9 when Niels Jorjensen
resigned. Mrs. Marjorie Living
son currently is serving as act
ing postmaster.
Competitors for the post
master vacancy in this city must
have at least 3 years of experi
ence (education above high
school level may be substituted
for 1-1/2 years of experience)
showing that they have the ability
to conduct and manage the com
munity’s postal business ef
ficiently and to supervise em
ployees so that customers are
satisfied with the service.
Competitors must also show
that they are of good reputation
and that they can deal with the
public agreeably and effectively.
Applicants must take a written
test. Those who pass will be as
signed final ratings on the basis
of this test and on their experi
ence and fitness for one year im
mediately preceding the closing
date of the examination. In addi
tion, they must have reached their
18th birthday on the closing date
for acceptance of applications.
Persons over 70 years of age
cannot be appointed.
Rescue Family
Group In Boat
Members of the Southport
Rescue Squad and the U. S. Coast
Guard combined forces Sunday
night to locate a boat bearing
nine persons, seven of them chil
dren, adrift in the river about
two miles above Southport.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Riven
bark and their children had gone
out for a Sunday afternoon trip,
and when they failed to return
by nightfall, an alarm was spread
at 8 o’clock. It was after mid
night when they were located.
They were unharmed and were
apparently not alarmed over the
fact they were out of gas and
far from home.
All qualified applicants will re
ceive consideration for employ
ment without regard to race,
creed, color, or national origin.
Complete information about the
examination requirements and
instructions for filing applica
tions may be obtained at the
Southport post office. AoDlica
tion forms must be filed with
the u. s. Civil service com
mission, Washington, D. C.
20415, and must be received or
postmarked not later than the
closing date.
Committees To
Assist Planning
For Brunswick
The Resources Development
Commission outlined plans for a
"Program of Progress” at a
meeting held Thursday night at
the Extension building in Supply.
William A. Powell, chairman
of the commission outlined to
the large group of leading citi
zens that were in attendance
plans for 9 committees to work
with the commission for the full
development of the economic po
tential of Brunswick county.
Powell reviewed with the group
the accomplishments of the com
fnission to date and requested the
assistance of each individual
present in carrying out the pro
posed programs.
"We are working with 9 pro
spects at the present time,” Po
well stated, "and these range
from a national organization to
. very small new business that
could be established in Brunswick
county.” Powell cautioned the
group not to be too optimistic,
as the work of locating industry
is highly competitive and takes
"time and the effort of many to
finally locate an industrial plant.
In his remarks Powell also out
lined how the Interest of a
prospect was retained after
it had been determined that
Brims wick county tentatively had
been ruled out by the prospect.
W. K. Dorsey, of the Cape Fear
Technical Institute in Wilming
ton, spoke briefly to the group
on the importance of the tourist
industry to Southeastern North
Carolina.
A. S. Knowles, Brunswick
county agriculture extension
agent, announced to the group
plans for developing the human
resources of Brunswick county.
At the end of the general meet
ing the group h .a committee
meetings to del .'mine the needs
in the 9 different categories of
the Resources Development
Commission program for prog
ress. Each Commission elected
a chairman, secretary and made
Fisher Honored'
During Banquet
G. W. Fisher, former president
of the Southport Junior Chamber
of Commerce, was honored as
Jaycee of the Year at the annual
banquet of that organization
Tuesday night.
The award was presented by
Bobby Jones, who was the recipi
ent of this honor last year. Cur
rently he is the Man of the Year
for the Jaycees.
Speaker for the banquet was
Victor G. Taylor, staff engineer
for International Nickle Co.
Marine Labratory at Wrightsville
Beach. He talked about these
operations and of their im
portance in the realm of testing
and scientific research. One of
the more interesting phases of
tthe program were the color slides
that he showed and explained.
Officers for the coming year
were installed by w. B. Rogers,
8th District Vice-President of
the Junior Chamber of Com
merce. Joe Walton was sworn
in as the new president and
other officers include: First Vice
President, Ed Royal, Second Vice
President, Harold Perkins,
Secretary, David M. Blackwell,
Treasurer W. C. Jones and Jay
bird Lesley Baker. Bill Love
and Hoyle Dosher were named
to the Board of Directors.
W. A. Powell is retiring presi
dent of the local organization.
Nature Trail Marker Unveiled
- cast aluminum marker commemorating the participation
9^ro!ina Garden Clubs, Inc., in the establishment of the Nature
trail at this histone sate was unveiled Saturday afternoon, Mrs. James M. Har
waschair™an of the project, Stanley South, archaeologist, is
V? *5® ^entor, und °” the n^ht is Mrs. Roscoe D. McMillan of Red Spr
ings, state Garden Club president. p
In City Election
Two New Aldermen
Southport voters put two new
men on the board of aldermen
Tuesday, returned one candidate
to office and endorsed the admin
istration of Mayor E. B. Tomlin
son, who was running unopposed.
In Ward No. 1 Dr. N. M. Horn
stein was the high man for aider
man as he was voted a seat
on the board to which he had
been appointed one year ago, He
-polled 327 votes. W. P. Home,
who had been unsuccessful in two
previous city elections, was a
winner this time with 312 votes.
! replaces Fred W. Spencer,
:eran member of the board,
o had 79 votes.
[n Ward No. 2 Hoyle Dosher
s the winner with 299 votes,
ing over the seat on the board
t vacant when Johnnie Vereen
cted not to run this year.
Tomlinson polled 517 votes,
lunners-up in voting in Ward
■ 1 were W. L. Hufham with
> votes, J. E. Hahn with 164
es and Spencer,
n Ward No. 2 Nelson Adams
led 183 votes and William
ncaide 104 votes.
?Ihe new officials were sworn
in|at the city hall today.
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No Superior
Court Monday
Judge William Bickett of Ra
leigh has notified Clerk of Court
Jack Brown that he will not
open the May term of Brunswick
county Superior court on Monday
dut to the fact that this falls
on the date of Confederate Mem
orial day. The opening session
of the criminal term will con
vene on the following day in
stead.
‘‘This means that all jurors
and witnesses who have been
summonsed for duty on May 10
will not have to appear until
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Time And Tide
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May 1, 1935, and the second Issue of The Pilot under our direc
tion was off the press. There was senational news of the capture
in South Carolina of a Wilmington man wanted for the hit-and-run
death of a child at Supply. The man responsible for the arrest was
a fearless storekeeper of that community named Harry Robinson
and his account of his chase across the State line was breath
taking and hair raising. A Brunswick County High School Field
Day has been held in Southport and Shallotte came off the winner.
Notable among the contestants were Harry L. Mintz, Jr. of Shal
lotte, who has taken first place in the declamation contest, followed
by Edward B. Taylor of Southport.
John D. Eriksen has been nominated for Mayor of Southport;
preparations were being made to entertain representatives of
the Eastern North Carolina Hospital Association at Southport;
and a new passenger bus with a custom body had been placed on
the Wllm lngton-Southport ran.
Five years later a front page story told that Dr. Landis G. Brown
would move here from Clinton to do general practice of medicine
and surgery. Plans were being worked out for the dredging of a
yacht basin at Southport with necessary easements being obtained
prior to beginning dredging operations. Gwendolyn Krahnke of Le
land was the winner in the Forestry Essay Contest among high
school students and Annie Lee Evans was the winner for elementary
school contestants. Each received a cash prize of $15. The annual
Southport Woman’s Club Flower Show was slated for the following
Friday. “'
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Dedicate Marker
At Brunswick Town
. O’Brien Acting
| f Hospital Head
E. J. Prevatte, chairman of
the board of trustees at Dosher
Memorial Hospital, announces
that Prince O'Brien, retired
Southport banker, has been named
acting administrator of the hospi
tal, effective May 4. He re
places Miss Frances Tillett who
came here as head of the local
nospitai three years ago. ms
action was taken by the board
of trustees at their regular meet
ing Monday night.
O'Brien has been activ e in
the affairs of the hospital for
many years. He is a former
member of the board and served
is chairman. Since his re
tirement from the bank he has
helped in the business depart
ment of that institution on a
part-time basis.
County Gives
Favorable Vote
Brunswick county tobacco
growers joined with farmers
throughout the southeastern
United States Tuesday to vote
their approval of the acreage
poundage plan for production con
trol of this crop.
There was a noticable lack of
enthusiasm, but when the votes
were counted last night it was
found that Brunswick had gone for
the new plan by a margin of
994 to 271. Preliminary reports
indicate that North Carolinians
favored the new program 134,
325 to 27,752, or by 82.9 per
cent.
As a result of the referendum,
the flue-cured tobacco produc
tion control program will under
go its first basic change in over
25 years.
The acreage-poundage system
would limit each grower not
only as to the amount of land
he could plant in tobacco, but
also as to the number of pounds
he could sell from his crop.
Since the present program
was instituted in 1940, produc
tion controls have been on an
acreage basis only, with each
grower permitted to sell all the
poundage he could produce on
his allotted acreage.
The program worked well for
many years, but in the past
few years it resulted in a big
buildup in surplus stocks of to
bacco. The Flue-Cured Stabil
ization Corp., a grower co-op
erative which administers the
price support program, current
ly is holding some 916 million
pounds in storage. That’s about
three-fourths of a full crop.
A change to acreage-pound
age had been endorsed by
President Johnson and Agricul
ture Secretary Orville L. Free
man, by Governor Moore, and
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Mrs. Roscoe D. McMillan,
president of North Carolina Gar
den Clubs, Inc,, unveiled a mar
ker at Brunswick Town Satur
day afternoon erected to com
merorate the work of that or
ganization on the Nature Trail
project.
Mrs. McMillan, who has visit
ed Brunswick Town on several
previous occasions, praised the
work that is going on at this
historic site and stated that it
had been a pleasure during her
administration as state presi
dent to have had a part in the
establishment of the Nature
Trail. She declared that she
thinks that the committee in
charge should become a
permanent committee of the
North Carolina Garden Clubs,
Inc.
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr.,
who has served as chairman of
the Nature Trail Committee since
its inception, presided at the brief
outdoor ceremony that preceded
a tour of the Nature Trail by
distinguished guests present for
this occasion. In recognizing
these visitors, Mrs. Harper
praised the generosity and fore
sight of Mr. and Mrs. J. Law
rence Sprunt, who gave the
Brunswick Town site to The State
of North Carolina. “Had it not
been for their generosity,” she
said, “this occasion would not
have been made possible.”
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County Board
Meetings Held
Members of the board of county
commissioners have voted to
negotiate with the Allen Appraisal
Co. to conduct a valuation of
Brunswick county property next
year. This action was taken at
the board meeting on Monday.
The office of the Brunswick
County Tax Attorney was
declared vacant and E. J. Pre
vatte was appointed to fill the
vacancy. A. H. Gainey formerly
held this post.
In an action on April 27 the
board passed a resolution re
questing Representative Odell
Williamson to amend his salary
bill to place the salary of the
Register of Deeds and Clerk
of Court at the same figure
paid to the sheriff. The later
also gets a travel allowance.
The board also passed a
resolution requesting Repre
sentative Williamson to intro
duce legislation to change the
manner of appointing the county
auditor, a responsibility now
vested in the State Treasurer's
office. The commissioners
asked that this power of appoint
ment be placed with the com
missioners with the provision
that the term for auditor be
reduced to 2 years from the
present provision for a 4-year
appointment.
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Time For Local
Bills Ends For.
The Legislature
This past Friday was the last
day that any local bill could be
introduced in the General Assem
bly without first receiving per
mission from the Rules Com
mittee. It is my understanding
that a local bill that gets by this
committee will have to be one
to take care of some emergency
that could not wait for two years.
With this cut-off date, there
were over 100 bills introduced
in the House on Thursday and
Friday of last week. Among them
were three bills 1 introduced
that pertain to Brunswick coun
ty. As far as I know, I have
introduced at this time all
the bills that I intend to intro
duce during the 1965 session.
One of the bills that I intro
duced was done at the request
of the Board of County Commis
sioners. The bill provides that
after the expiration of the pres
ent term of our county accountant
on January 1, 1969 the appoint
ment of the county accountant
will be made for a two-year term
Instead of a four-year term. The
appointment is made by the State
Auditor upon the recommenda
tion of a majority of the Board
of County Commissioners. I
understand this policy has al
ways been followed by the State
Auditor on all appointments he
has made.
Another bill that I introduced
was for the purpose of clarify
ing the authority of the Bruns
wick County Industrial Com
mission in regard to the amount
of tax that is to be levied by
the Brunswick county Board of
Commissioners. It was not clear
whether the county commis
sioners could levy the amount
of tax up to 10 cents on the
$100 valuation that they
thought was needed or whether
they had to levy the amount re
quested by the Industrial Com
mission. In order to clarify this,
I amended the present law so
that this taxing authority will rest
in the hands of the county com
mlissioners. I also provided that
if the time ever comes that this
industrial development tax is .ipt
needed for this purpose, the peo
ple of Brunswick county may
use the same method in elim
inating it that they used to bring
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Southport Club
Wins Honors
The Southport Junior Woman’s
Club won several honors at the
State Convention in Charlotte last
week, including the Dorthy Heath
Brown award in the Fine Arts
Department for clubs in a com
munity with a population of less
than 7,500.
This was in competion not
only with the juniors, but with
all organizations of the State
Federation and was for "having
the best program or exhibit in
one or all of the art divisions
included in this (the Fine Arts)'
department.” This includes art,
crafts, literature, drama and
music.
Another honor came to the club'
when Mrs. Norman Hornsteinwou
the S. Clay Williams Cup for
the best portrait in oils. Her
work was entitled "Head of an
Old Woman.” This is a traveling
prize, to be held for one year,
and is sponsored by the Arts
Division of the Fine Arts De
partment.
The juniors also won a merit
award for their over-all effort
in the realm of art. This was
an award within the junior divi
sion.
Tide Table
Following la the tide
table for Southport during
the week. These hours aare
approximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
TIDE TABLE
Thursday, May 6,
11:58 A. M. 6:04 A. M.
6:11 P. M.
Friday ,May 7,
0:24 A. M. 7:05 A. M.
1:04 P. M. 7:17 P. M.
Saturday, May 8,
1:26 A. M. 8:08 A. M.
2:10 P. M. 8:26 P. M.
Sunday, May 9,
2:29 A. M. 9:09 A. M.
3:15 P. M. , 10:32 P. M.
Monday, May 10,
3:31 A. M. 10:05 A. M.
4:14 P. M. 10:33 P. M.
Tuesday, May 11,
4:28 A. M. 10:57 A. M.
5:08 P. M. 11:29 P. M.
Wednesday, May 12,
5:21 A. M. 11:45 A. M.
5:58 P. M.