The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of the News All The Time Volume 24 No. 48 8-Poges Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WBDNBSDAY, MAY 12, 1965 5* A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Big Catch Of King Mackerel HAUL—Catches like this had fishermen stumbling around talking to themselves Monday. These men are from the Paul Cunningham (second from the left) party of Bristol, Va., who were fishing with Capt. Abbie Dosher aboard the Idle On HI. They had 69 king mackerel and were back at the dock by 1 o’clock. (Photo by Dosher). Five Girls From Sports Fishing Is Brunswick Get Scholarship Aid Good lhis Week Ferry Service Unlikely For Summer Season Five Brunswick County col lege-bound seniors have received the Prospective Teacher Scholarship Loan Fund of $350. The North Carolina General Assembly in 1957 established a - scholarship loan as financial aid for those students planning'" teaching career in North Caro» lina. Each recipient under the provision of this program shall be eligible for scholarship loans each year provided a “C” aver age is maintained, until she has qualified for a teacher’s certifi cate. The recipients in Brunswick County are Brenda Jordan, South port High School, who will attend Mars Hill; Sandra Russ, Leland High School, who will enter UNC at Greensboro; Eunice Harrison, Lincoln High School, who will enter St. Augustine College in Raleigh; Laverna Joyner, Bruns wick County High School, who wiU enter A. & T. College in Greens boro; Julia Hewett,ShallotteHigh School, who will enter East Caro lina. Brenda Gail Tripp, an alter nate fbr the Prospective Teacher Scholarship Loan, will enter Methodist College in Fayetteville this September. These students have had a su perior scholastic and personal record during their high school years. TO ATTEND BANQUET . A. Woodrow Taylor, superin tendent of Brunswick County Schools, and Mrs. Taylor will attend the banquet in Raleigh Sunday evening honoring per sons who have made the “Tar Heel of the Week” column in the News and Observer. This will be a part of the 100th Anniver sary celebration by the Raleigh newspaper. Taylor was honored while serving as high school principal at Ahoskle. PIANO RECITAL The music pupils of Mrs. Carl Walkins, Sr. will present a music recital at the Southport Baptist Church Friday at 8 o’clock. Everyone is invited to attend. BENEFIT SUPPER The WSCS of Shiloh Metho dist Church located on High way 87 will sponsor a ham and chicken supper Saturday, beginn ing at 6:30 p. m. The supper will be served in the fellow ship hall of the church. Pro ceeds to be used for building fund. Homemade pies and cakes will also be available. BCHS CONCERT The Brunswick County High School Chorus and the Elemen tary Chorus present their annual spring concert Thursday at 8 p. m. in the school gymtorium. Choruses are directed by Miss C. M. Davis and James H. Frink. The public is invited to attend. Sports fishing, which was slow getting started this season, reached an early peak during the past weekend with some out standing catches of king mackerel being made close to the bar and with bluefish and the first Spanish mackerel of the year showing up .. on the shoals. To top it offr several parties made fabulous catches of trout near off-shore wrecks. Monday was the day for the king mackerel. Top boat was the Eva Kay of Capt. Dick Skipper, who had 102 of these fish with the George Emphrey party of Westfield, Va., aboard, Capt. Abbie Disher of the Idle On in had the Paul Cunningham party of Bristol, Va., and was back at the dock by 1 o’clock with 69 king mackerel. Capt. Fred Folford on the Davis Bros, had the John Chesbesko party of Concord and came in with 82 king mackerel. Capt. Hoyle Dosher in the Idle On IV had the Elliott Link party of Rockingham and they landed 76 kings. Capt. Basil Watts on the Idle On n had a pari of t ie George Emphrey party of West field, Va., and they added 75 king mackerel to the day’s take. Capt. Glenn Trunnell and the Josh McCullen party from Reidsville out on the Riptide had 65 king mackerel. Just to prove that charterboat captains like to go fishing on their day off, five of them went out Thursday and brought in 142 trout while fishing near one of the wrecks.. They tried their luck again Sunday and brought in 20 Spanish mackerel, the first that have been reported here this season. The count was off some Tues day, but the kings still were close Inshore and the catches were good. Will rather conditions apparently fairly well settled, the charterboatmen expect some big catches during the next few days and urge those who have been planning a trip not to wait until the weekend and run the rlsh of being unable to get a boat. New 4-H Club For Longwood A 4-H club was organized in the Longwood community last week, organizational meeting be ing held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Irone Long. Mrs. Long, along with Miss Betty Hughes and Mrs. Shirley Ward, are serv ing as organizational leaders. There were 13 children present who joined the club and from six to ten more are expected to loin at or before the next meeting. The following officers were se lected: Judy Tharte, president; Richie Dutton, vice president; Kathy Ward, secretary - treasu rer; and Kathy Russ, reporter. A county council representative and a recreation leader will be selected at the next meeting. Delicious refreshments were served to the group by the leaders at the conclusion of the business meeting. Talent Show And Dress Revue Plans The 4-H Talent Show and Dress Revue will be held at the next County Council Meeting which will be held at the Shalfotte High School auditorium Thurs day of this week. Judges have been secured for the talent con test and trophies donated by the Ebb-Tide Restaurant and will be presented to the winners by J. W. Robinson. The top three members selected by the Judges will represent Brunswick County in the District Talent Contest to be held in Moore county on June 19. The Dress Revue is under the direction of Mrs. Eva Gray and will be narrated by Susan Gray. Trophies have been donated for both the county junior and senior winner. Lewis’ Department Store of Shallotte is donating the trophy for the senior winner. County Demonstration Day is coming up on May 15. Boys and girls are encouraged to take part in this event. The county winners will then begin prepar ing for the District Contest to be held on June 29. Riegel Slates Major Addition A new bleaching tower is to be erected at Riegel Paper Cor poration’s plant at Riegelwood on the eastern edge of Colum bus County. An expenditure of $1,230,000 is involved in the ex pansion. Included is an addition to the bleach plant building to cost about $200,000. New equipment to be added is a chlorine dioxide tow er and auxiliaries costing $410,000, an additional chlorine dioxide generator and auxilia ries, a peroxide make-up system, new instrumentation, and elec trical controls. The new tower will become the first bleaching stage in the soft wood side of the bleach plant. Purpose of the new bleaching tower is to increase brightness ir> the pulp delivered to custo mers. In technical terms, the goal is to reach 88 plus bright ness. (Continued On Page Four) Beta Club Tag Day Saturday Beta Club members from Southport High School will have Tag Day Saturday, a scholarship drive that the Beta Club has planned to hold annually. The proceeds from Tag Day will be given to two or more seniors, who plan to futher their education after graduation from high school. The faculty will select the re'.pients and the Beta Club Sc iOlarshlps will be awarded at the Commencement Exercise. School patrons are urged to give generously to the Beta Club member who contacts them on Saturday. Donations are tax deductable. Prospects for ferry serv ice this summer between South port and Ft. Fisher across the lower Cape Fear river received a jolt last week when highway officials stated that it will be October before facilities will be available. f Although '&M3*»ry *>f a second replacement vessel for the Sea Level was given as the reason, the fact is that thus far nothing has been done on the site for the ferry slip on this side of the river except preliminary sur veying. No property has been acquired for this purpose. Highway Commissioner Chair, man Merrill Evans and High way Director W. F. Babcocl confirmed Thursday that the service, sought by area leaders for more than a century, cannot be initiated before October 15. Babcock said this is the de livery date promised for the sec ond of two new ferryboats or dered by the state this year. The first boat, due July 15, will join the Sea Level on the Car teret County to Ocracoke Island run. The delay, Babcock explained, was necessitated when the com mission was forced to issue a second call for bids on the two vessels. Bid received on the first call were excessive, ho said. “That pushed the schedule back about 45 to 60 days,’’ Bab cock said Babcock suggested that a del egation of leaders from the two counties might persuade the commission to move the Sea Level to the new run when the first new vessel is delivered. “This is a matter of policy and the commission must make the decision.” he said. Time And Tide ^ The date was May 8, 1935, and the chief subject for discussion was politics. Our front page pictures showed State Senator S. Bunn Frink and Representative R. E. Sentelle. In a municipal election the day before John D. Eriksen had been elected mayor. Back in those days an annual event to which many Southport people looked forward was the arrival of the Vanderbilt yacht, Alva. Not only was this a palatial craft, but it was large enough to carry a twin-motored amphibian plane in dock. We had a column of news from Supply and the by-line read “Miss Lottie Jane Frink”; four oil tankers had come up the river in a single day and that was news; and an editorial praised the legislation which substituted lethal gas for the electric chair as a means to inflict capital punishment in North Carolina. May 8, 1940 and the consolidated schools of Brunswick were in the midst of their graduation programs. Secretary of State Thad Eure has been the speaker at Southport. One of the features of a forth coming local flowers show was to be an exhibition of painting done by Wilmington artists Claude Howell and Henry MacMillian. Fri day was the day set for that event, and there was editorial comment about the scope of the undertaking, with a name band as an extra, added attraction for a Flower Show Ball. There was good news from two fronts for the fishermen; There was a verified report of bluefish and trout; and the U. S. Army Engineers had called for bids for digging a yacht basin at the western end of Moore street in Southport. War in Europe has ended and in our is$ue of May 9, 1945, there was a big cartoon to supplement the news Continued in headlines. With the Japanese phase still in progress, the home front still was being exhorted to: D^.jnore knitting, buy more bonds and give (Continued On Page Pour) Fishing Bill Is Cut In Volume And Importance The commercial fishing bill started out to be a big bill not only as far as the number of pages is concerned, but also in the num ber of things it proposed to do. This bill has not been trimmed down in size. It undertook to re write the authority of so many agencies—for instance, Water Resources, Wildlife, and Stream Sanitation—that it aroused many objections. The sections of the bill pertaining to the Water Re sources, Wildlife, and Stream Sanitation commissions of the Conservation & Development De partment have now been deleted. I would like to point out that all legislation is generally passed after compromises have been made and that this bill does not reflect all of my thinking. How ever, I’m quite sure that there are certain parts of the bill that have a lot of merit. Two years ago the General Assembly passed a bill setting up what is known as the Legis lative Council. At that time the opponents of the bill agrued that this was setting up a little General Assembly. This past week, a bill was introduced to eliminate this body. Many think it is not needed and that all the council does is to give information to a few members of the General As sembly at the taxpayers’ expense. Prior to the meeting of the Leg islature, the bill to abolish this council had very strong backing. If it reaches the floor of the House, I intend to vote for it myself. ims past weanesaay a Din passed the House permitting a person to get a divorce on one year’s separation, provided the party had obtained a separation agreement from his or her spouse for at least one year prior to the granting of the divorce. The rep resentatives in opposition to this bill were afraid that by cutting the time down from two years to one, it would probably result in a future Legislature’s passing a bill that would allow the divorce without a separation agreement. It was also argued that the two year period gives just a little more time for the parties to reconcile their differences and thus avoid divorce. The members favoring the measure contended that it is useless to cause a per son to have to wait this long a period if there is agreement be tween the two parties. They also claimed that in possibly a lot of cases it would eliminate hard ships as to support of children. During the time of a session of the General Assembly, almost all of the so-called important people that come into our State pay a visit to the General As sembly. This past week we had one that might fall in this cate gory. He is Richard Chamber lain, well known as TV’s Dr. Kildare. He aroused right much excitement among the clerks and secretaries who were trying to see him. After he left, it was pointed out by a member of the House that we have a bachelor in the person of Rep. Jack Moody of Chatham County who is with us all the time. The thing known as “strategy” plays an important part in get ting legislation passed in the General Assembly. For instance, a group that is sponsoring or promoting a piece of legislation that isn’t what would be consid ered real desirable will always (Continued On Page Four) Southport Woman In State Office Has High Hopes For Small Boat Harbor In City Mrs. Ernest Parker of South port was elected and Installed recording secretary of the Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc. at its annual convention in Greensboro last week. She at tended her first Executive Com mittee meeting with other new officers on Thursday morning after the convention adjourned. Mrs. Parker has served as president of the Southport Gar den Club and, on a statewide level, as secretary of the Bruns wick Town Nature Trail Com mittee of the state organization. Mrs. Parker attended David son College and received her degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The term of office is two years. Elected to the state presidency was Mrs. W. C. Landoline, Sr. of Clemmons, who prior to her election was editor of "The North Carolina Gard ener”, the official magazine of the garden clubs. Efforts had been made prior to convention to have the Bruns wick Town Nature Trail Com mittee be made a standing com mittee. The parliamentarian MRS. ERNEST PARKER ruled that the change could not be made until the next conven tion. Therefore the committee will remain a special com mittee until that time. Larceny Cases In Superior Court SERGEANT SMITH New Sargeant At Sunny Point Staff Sergeant Moten Smith, Jr., of Sibert, Ky., has report ed to Sunny Point Army Terminal for a tour of duty at this installa tion. The new Sunny Point sergeant has served on active duty with the United States Army for over 17 years. He will be assigned to the Operations Directorate while at SPART. During his military service he has served four overseas tours of duty, including twice being assigned to Germany and once each to Japan and Korea. Sergeant Smith is married to the former Pauline Sledenwurst of Nurembert, Germany. They have one child, a son, Hans, age 14. The family plans to reside in Southport during the period the sergeant is assigned to SPART. Former Board Member Dies SHALLOTTE — Luther Clar ence Tripp, Sr., 94, of Shal lotte a former member of the Brunswick County Commission, died Wednesday in James Walker Memorial Hospital in Wilmington after a long illness. M r. Tripp was a retired build ing contractor and had been a long time attendant of Zion Baptist Church near Ash. He was a former member of the county Board of Commissioners in Brunswick County. For the past several years he had made his home with his daughters in Wilm ington. Final rites were held Sunday at 3 p. m. at Powell Funeral Home Chapel in Shallotte by Dr. W. D. Morris and the Revs. W, G. Hawthorne and Scott Tur ner, with burial in Gurganus Cemetery near here. Survivors include three daugh ters, Mrs. George Ezzell and Mrs. Rexie Bankhead, both of Wilmington and Mrs. Bazil T. (Continued On Page Four) Joseph Goodman pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter in Brunswick county Superior court here this morning and was sen tenced by Judge William Y. Bick ett to a term of from 4 to 7 years on the roads. Homicide charges against Essie Hill have been continued for the term, as have the rape charges against Lindberg King. The grand jury still has not re turned a bill In the case charging Eunice Davis with homocide. Three cases of breaking, entering and larceny took up much of the time Tuesday, open ing day for the May term for trial of criminal cases. In each trial the defendants pleaded guilty, and up until noon to day the jury had not heard evidence In a single case. Barbara Brooks and Patricia Brown, women with prominent family connections, pleaded guilty on 5 of 13 counts of breaking, entering and larceny Involving several beach cottages. They will be sentenced this after noon. Defendants In cases growing out of another series of thefts are Culbert Simmons and his broth er, James Oliver Simmons. They were charged in five bills of in dictment and entered pleas of guilty. Final judgement in their cases will be made this afternoon. The third pair who entered pleas of guilty to charges of breaking, entering and larceny Tuesday are Owen DuBose and Derris Ward, who were tried on four counts. Judgement in their cases will be made this after noon by Judge Bickett. With defendants coming into court and entering pleas of guilty, disposition of cases is prog ressing rapidly and one court official said today that the term should be concluded sometime to morrow (Thursday). Service Places Net $1.1 Million Brunswick County’s 88 serv ice establishments had total re ceipts o f $1.1 million In 1963, an increase of 133 percent from 1958, according to a report of the 1963 census of business just released by the Bureau of the Census, u. S. Department of Commerce. The last previous census of business covered operations during 1958. The service trades in the census of business included those providing personal service to in dividuals; miscellaneous busi ness service; auto repair and other auto services; and repair services. Also included were motion picture production and distribution businesses; motion picture theatres; other amuze ment and recreation services and hotels and motels. The selected service trade establishments in the county employed 73 persons (exclusive of proprietors) and had a pay roll for the year of $158 thou sand. The state as a whole Included 23,677 establishments with receipts of $597.7 million. The bureau of the census re port Selected Services, North Carolina, 1963 Census of Busi ness, from which these data are taken, may be purchased from the superintendent of documents, Washington, D. C. Robert W. MacArthur, pres ident of Ramsey Roducts Cor poration in Charlotte, who was the fist cash customer at the Southport Small Boat Harbor, was so well pleased with the service he received here that he wrote the following letter this week to James W. Davis, executive director of the North Carolina State Ports Authority: "1 am a five year resident of Charlotte, having moved a manufacturing plant to Char lotte, from Albany, New York, I have been a severe critic of things and people in North Car olina from the Statehouse on down. I have been quick to write letters voicing my opinions about the things around me that I did n't like. “I’d like to be as quick to write you my opinion of the new Marina at Southport. Without a doubt, it is the finest Marina from Wilmington to Ft. Lauder dale. It is probably the finest on the East Coast, but since I haven't visited all of them I can not say with authority. “Mr. Schmidt and his assist ants are without a doubt the most cooperative, helpful, and sincere men I have met since I moved to North Carolina. They cannot seem to do enough for us as boat owners. “I sincerely trust that the plans for ultimate completion of the . Marina work out as you have?’ planned, and that the Marina re-;? ceives the promotion and praise^; that it deserves. Believe me,?; everyone I meet in the boating; world will hear of it and I’m sure I won’t be alone.*’ I Two Pro Shops ! In County Hit Thieves broke into the pro at Oak Island Golf Club and at Boiling Spring Lakes Golf Club last Wednesday night and got away with equipment and other mer chandise valued at almost $7,500. At Oak Island the noctournal visitors entered through a rear door of the pro shop and ap parently took their time loading their choice of clubs, balls, shoes, golf bags, clothing and other valuables, including the cash register and the typewriter. Bob Smith, club professional, es timated the loss at almost $6,000. At Bolling Spring Lakes the take was somewhat smaller, but once more the thieves appeared to know what they were doing as they selected the most ex pensive merchandise in the pro shop. Joe Batson, club pro, esti mated the loss at about $1,500. The Brunswick County Sher iff’s Department and the SBI were at work on the case early Thursday morning, but the vis itors left few clues. It appeared that they wore gloves while they carried on their selecting and loading operations. It appears that robberies of this nature are not unusual. Just one year ago the pro shop at the Dunes Club and at the Surf Club near Myrtle Beach, S. C., were hit. Smith thinks these are out-of state operators who load up one or more cars and carry their loot into congested, metropolitian areas to be unloaded. The loss at Oak Island was covered by insurance but there was no coverage on the stolen goods at Boiling Spring Lakes. Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport Airing die week. These hours aare approximately correct and were furrished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. high low TIDE TABLE THURSDAY, May 1*. 6:10 A. M. 0:19 A. M. 6:45 P. M. 12:30 P. M. FRIDAY. MAY 14. 6:56 A. M. 1:07 A. M. 7:29 P. M. 1:12 P. M. SATURDAY, MAY 15, 7:39 A. M. 1:50 A. M. 8:10 P. M. 1:52 P. M. SUNDAY, MAY 16, 8:20 A. M. 2:33 A. M. 8:49 P. M. 2:32 P. M. MONDAY, MAY 17, 8:58 A. M. 3:15 A. M. 9:28 P. M. 3:11 P. M. TUESDAY, MAY J8, 9:38 A. M. 3:56 A. M. 10:05 P. M. 3:50 P. M. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 10:17 A. M. 4:37 A. M. 10:45 P. M. 4:29 P. M.

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