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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County! THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume 24 No. 53 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1965 54 A COPY PURI IfsMPn CA/CDV U/cnkirriMw Big Shark Caught in Old Yacht Basin HUGE—This 228-lb. shark was caught by 13-year-old Tommie Dosher in the old Southport Yacht Basin late Thursday afternoon. The big fish was hooked near the stern of the Idle On III and when young Dosher was able to haul him up to the bulkhead his father used a flying gaff to help get the monster on the dock. Fishing with the Southport youngster at the time was Perry Hall of Harrells. The shark was 8-ft., 7-inches in length—almost the combined length of the two young fishermen. (Photo by Dosher). After 30 Years Knowles Is Retiring A. S. Knowles will retire June 30 as Brunswick County Ex tension Chairman alter 30 years ol service with the N. C. Agri cultural Extension Service. He will be succeeded by A. F. (Archie) Martin, agricultural ex tension agent in Columbus Coun ty. The change in the extension position was announced jointly by George Rourk, chairman ol the Brunswick County Board ol Com missioners, and George Hyatt Jr., extension director at North Carolina State University at Ra leigh. Rourk and Hyatt said Knowles is to be commended lor the in terest that he has shown in the people ol Brunswick county. He came to Brunswick in 1949 alter having served as an extension agent in Wayne and Hoke coun ties. He is a 1935 graduate ol N. C. State with a degree in agri cultural engineering. Knowles said in announcing his retirement, “The work here has been enjoyable, andthelellowshlp ol the people so line that Bruns wick county will continue to be our home.” The new extension chairman, Martin, is 45, a native ol Northampton County, the lather ol two children, a veteran ol World War II, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, and a graduate ol N. C. State with a degree in agronomy. He has 18 years ol extension experience. Four ol those years were spent in Pasquotank county and the re maining 14 years in Columbus County. Grover Dobbins, district (Continued On Page Four) H Brief Bits Of HNfEW BAKE SALE The WSCS of Trinity Methodist Church will have a bake sale on Saturday morning between Leg gett’s store and the post office. BUDGET MEETING Members of the Brunswick County Board of Education met in special session Tuesday with members of the Brunswick Coun ty Commissioners to discuss budget problems for the coming school year. BENEFIT SUPPER The WSCS of the Shiloh Meth odist Church will sponsor a ham and chicken supper on Saturday beginning 6:30 p.m. The supper will be served buffet style in the fellowship hall. Proceeds will be used for building fund. The Church is located on Highway 87, near Maco. BIBLE SCHOOL CLOSES Vacation Bible School at the Southport Baptist Church will end this weekend with a picnic on Friday night at 6:30 o’clock for all the boys and girls and their parents at the church. Com mencement will be held on Sun ®venlne at 7:30 o’clock in The public is in vited to this service. L A. S. KNOWLES Varied Program Set For Fourth The Filth Annual Southport Arts Festival will oiler every thing from fireworks to choral music, fine art to donkey base ball, according to Bill Williams, chairman of the annual event. The festival, which began five years ago with an art show spon sored by the Southport Junior Woman’s Club has grown until almost every group in Southport is involved in offering a wide range of entertainment to visitors. At the heart of the festival is the art show. In the past, the art exhibit has attracted work by ar tists from the Panama Canal Zone to New York. This year, cash purchase prizes have been added for the first time. Sponsors ex pect this inducement to bring more entries than ever before. The art exhibit will be open to the public from July 2nd through July 4th at the city hall, the library and the high school gym. But the Art Exhibit is only a beginning. Other events include a Heritage Show by the Woman’s Club. This event will put on dis play valuable and interesting heirlooms, documents going back before the Civil War, antiques and other items of historic Interest. The Heritage show will be open to the public on July 3 and 4. Music will be provided by the 60 piece 2nd Marine Division Band from Camp Lejeune and the 31 member 2nd Marine Division Choral Group. Both are rec ognized as among the top musi cal organizations in the country. The band and choral concert will be held in the City Park at 3:00 p. m. on Saturday, July 3. Other attractions will include the mobile Civil War exhibit from the North Carolina Department of Archives and History; a parade through downtown Southport at 11 a. m. July 3rd; a huge fire works display on the waterfront on Saturday night; an Honest John missile on display; draw ing for a complete boat-motor (Continued On Page Four) Scholarship For Nurse Training Mrs. A. H. Gainey, Jr., educa tion chairman of die Southport Junior Woman’s Club, advises that the club will offer a scholar ship for a one-year course in practical nursing which will be taught by the Cape Fear Techni cal Institute. The scholarship will cover the costs of tuition and supplies. Any person between the ages of 18 and 50 is eligible tor the scholarship. Persons wishing to apply should contact Mrs. Sue King at the Southport Public Library. The deadline for the submission for applications is August 1. New Telephone Directory Out The new Southport-Long Beach telephone directory has been mailed to all telephone customers in this area, according to H. F. Kincaid, manager for Southern Bell. Approximately 1,350 books will be mailed to local subscrib ers. Kincaid asks that everyone de stroy their old telephone directories since many numbers have been changed. He pointed out that the first few pages of the directory have been designed to make telephon ing easier. The inside cover of the telephone directory is re served for emergency informa tion. The introductory pages also include a handy list of area code numbers to use in long dis tance calling, plus rates to cer tain cities and towns. “Many people do not realize all the help ful information contained in the first few pages of their telephone (Continued On Page Four) Legislature Is Near Close Of Good Session By ODELL WILLIAMSON At the time I am writing this, It is anticipated that the General Assembly will adjourn on Wed nesday the 16th. Therefore this will be the last column that I will be writing about this past session of the Legislature. I would like to say that writing this column has not been an easy task, and I appreciate very much the kind remarks from the people who have read It. I wish to thank this newspaper for allowing your representative this space so that I could use this means to help keep you In formed on legislative matters of Interest to Brunswick county. Now that the 1965 session of the Legislature is history, I can say that it has been a good session with respect to the overall good that It has done for the State of North Carolina. This General Assembly has appropriated ap proximately 30% more money In the field of education than any other General Assembly In the history of the State. This, after all, is the No. 1 program of our state government. In making this appropriation and others, we did not change our overall tax struc ture by adding any additional taxes on the people. There were many bills passed In other fields such as roads, courts, highway safety, and other areas that I am sure will add much to the progress of North Carolina. Sen. Volt Gilmore of Moore County Introduced a resolution asking for a study to be made In regard to the future of Bald Head Island after having contact ed Frank Sherrill, the owner of the property, and myself. The purpose of this commission will be, as I understand it, to see if development of this island or some other use would be better for the county and state. It was thought by Sen. Gilmore that if the commission decided on de velopment, then this might be a way of getting the State to help Out in gaining access to fills island. My own opinion In regard to this Island Is that it would do our county more good If It were developed. The bill that was Introduced creating the Brunswick-New Hanover Maritime Commission has now passed the General Assembly and Is law. This parti cular piece of legislation, which I think can do a lot toward de veloping this undeveloped area, caused me more trouble to have enacted Into law than any other bill I Introduced this year. Of course, the trouble was gett ing this bill through the Senate and not the House. Some of the opposition to this bill seemed to be afraid that the commission might promote industries that need dockage and therefore would be in competition with the state ports. I was able to convince them finally, however, that any individual or corporation could do this anyway if they see fit. In effect, all the bill does is create a corporation by legislation. A bill that would have returned approximately $40,000 to Bruns wick county in the form of the franchise tax that is paid the State of North Carolina passed the House and was killed in the Senate. This bill, even though it would not become effective till 1967, would have cost the state about $19,000,000. If it had (Continued On Page Pour) Swimming Class In Coastal Motel Pool .K<m. Wooten, center, is shewn here with an even dozen of m h®r sZimJ^in^ class» completed last week in the Coastal Motel pool at Yaupon Beach. The Southport Junior Woman’s Club sponsored this event, with Mrs. Mae Barbee serving as chairman. (Sherrod Photo) Swim Class Is Successful As First Project The first swimming classes held in this area in recent years were completed last week at the Coastal Motel pool at Yaupon Beach. The classes were spon sored by the Southport Junior Women’s Club and were directed by Mrs. Mae Barbee, chairman of the Public Affairs Department. .... These classes have been a cul mination of water and beat safetyp a main project of the Public Affairs Department. The two week classes were taught by Mrs. Ken Wooten, a swimming instructor from Wilmington. Mrs. Wooten has had 20 years experience teaching at the Y. W. C. A. in Wilmington and at Wrightsvllle Beach. Thirty children took part in the classes held at the Coastal Motel, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair. One of the major drawbacks in having swimming classes in the past has been a lack of a suitable place in which to teach. Due to the civic mindedness of the Sinclairs and their coopera tion in providing the club with a place to teach, classes were made possible. Students completing the be ginning classes were: Sharon Troll, Teresa Cumbee, Keith Caroon, Tommy Skipper, Dickie Skipper, Mary Tomlinson, Scott Jones, Brett Gainey, Mary Ellen Watts, Julie St. George, Charles Drew, Rusty Drew, Ann Duncan, Ray Lyn Hughes, Nancy Bigger staff, Rocky Dorsett, Mike Henry, Susan Lee. Students in more advanced classes were Madeline Potter, Dona Dosher, Catherine Hufham, Steve Dosher, Debbie Powell, Denise Johnson, Michael Smith, Abbey Henry, Renee Horne, Jeanie King, Jean Donnell, and June Skipper. OCXSQOBBBBBBBBI Time And Tide June 12, 1935, and a front page story said that Regionald Turner had been re-elected principal at Shallotte High School. A Wilming ton Chinese laundryman was at liberty under $1,000 bond after being held in the Brunswick County jail for several weeks on a hit-and-run charge. Judge J. Paul Frizzelle was coming here for the June term of court, scheduled for the following Monday. A feature, complete with picture, paid tribute to the contribu tions made to the educational progress of Brunswick county by the late B. R. Page, a former county superintendent. Brunswick was on the upgrade, population-wise anyway, with the announce ment that during the month of May births has doubled deaths. The editor' was on safe ground as he praised the good work of Va cation Bible Schools; and he lingered on to invite contributions of news and interesting information to The Pilot. -- An interesting visitor in the Southport harbor was the sailing schooner Morning Star, a floating prep school, and several front page pictures illustrated a story of this interesting experiment in education. This was back in 1940, and the date was June 12. Extensive repairs were being made to the Brunswick County courthouse; E. D. Bishop cheered over a big federal appropri ation for REA construction and hoped to get a portion of these funds for work in Brunswick; and Judge J. Paul Frizzelle was coming for another term of court the following Monday. Fishermen were optimistic, predicted that the coming weekend would bring the best fishing of the season; tennis enthusiasts were holding a meeting to discuss plans to push that sport back to its former place of prominence locally; and Lee Greer was heading this way with his Whlteville High School boxing team, for an outing on Oak Island. It was June 13, 1945, and The Pilot was pushing the 7th War (Continued On Page Four) Lifesaving Course Offered By Juniors CAROLYN SEGRAVES Segraves Girl On Newspaper Miss Carolyn Sue Segraves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Segraves of Winnabow, has been chosen to work on the staff of the Creek Pebbles, the weekly newspaper of Campbell College, Buie’s Creek. Miss Segraves, a 1964 gradu ate of Bolivia High School, is 19 years old and a rising sopho more at Campbell. During her freshman year Miss Segraves was a member of the Home Economics Club, the Dormitory House Council, the Collegiate Choir and the Young Woman’s Auxiliary. She is study ing for a B. S. in Music Educa tion and has studied piano under Miss Cenith Elmore. Philip Kennedy, faculty spon sor for the Creek Pebbles, says that Miss Segraves and Miss Carol Bariel, also chosen to work on the staff, “are two of the most potent journalists” he has encountered in several years. Miss Segraves and Miss Bariel of white Oak, are the only mem bers of the rising sophomore class chosen for this honor. Island Study Bill Defeated Sen. Voit Gilmore of Moore tried but failed Friday to resurrect his bill creating a commission to study Smith Is land at the mouth of the Cape Fear. The Senate Calendar I Com mittee gave the bill an un favorable report Thursday. Gilmore’s motion that the bill be reconsidered was defeated by a wide margin. Sen. Roy Rowe of Pender, calendar committee chairman, said the panel felt the bill was introduced too late in the ses sion. The bill asked that a seven member study group investi gate the possibilities of public (Continued On Page Four) A Red Cross Senior Lifesaving course will be ottered by the Southport Junior Womans Club locally this summer If a sufficient number of interested and qual ified people enroll. The course will be taught by Kenneth Wooten of Wilmington who Is in charge of the life sav ing program at Carolina Beach and Wrightsville Beach. He has also served as instructor at the National Aquatle School which Is hold In the mountains of North Carolina each summer. It is hoped that men and wom en of all ages and Interests will apply since lifesaving can be vital in the protection of life, especially with children. Parents interested in water safety and persons who hope to obtain em ployment as life guards can be helped by this instruction. Qualifications for Senior Life saving are that the enrollee be above age 16 and a good swimmer. Course eligibility requirements include: Standing front dive or plunge into the surf; swimming 440 yards contlnously; diving from surface to depth of 6-feet and swimming two tody lengths under water; tread water one minute; float motionless with minimum movement of arms and legs for one minute. The course will be ottered in the surf at Yaupon Beach July 12-19 fulfilling course re quirements of 15 hours of instruction and 2 ’.ours of exam ination. Classes will be 2 to 3 hours in the morning each day for six days. No charge will be made for the course but purchase of the text books, “Lifesaving and Water Safety,” is required. To enroll or to get further in formation phone Mrs. John L. Barbee, 278-5573 betweeen 7 and 10 p. m. Receive Bids For Museum Temperature Control Co., Wil mington, submitted Tuesday an apparent $9,900 low bid for heat ing and air conditioning of the proposed Visitor Center Mu seum at Old Brunswick Town. James P. Milam, architect of Raleigh, and Frank Walsh, rep resentative of the N. C. Depart ment of Archives and History, were present at the afternoon bid opening in the office of the South Eastern North Carolina Beach Association here. Other bidders and their base bids: Sneeden Inc., Wilmington, $10,620. Cannon Refrigeration Service, Wilmington, $10,700. Shallotte Hardware Co., $22, 000. Bids for general contract, plumbing and electrical instal lations were opened last week. The apparent low bidders were Gilbert Parrish, Wilming ton, $41,982 for general con struction; Shallotte Hardware Co., $5,450 for plumbing; and A. B. Blake Electrical Contrac tors Inc., Wilmington, $5,457 for electrical work. Contracts are expected to be awarded in two to four weeks, with construction started about mid-August. ▼ t bbM mvun i Cash Purchase Prize Offered For Art Show Cash purchase prizes will be awarded tor the first time in the 5th Annual Southport Arts Festi val, July 2 through July 4. $175 has been allocated to pur chase the top oil painting in the show and $75 tor the best drawing. The purchased work will be donated to the City of South port by the Junior Woman’s Club, sponsor of the Arts Festival, to begin a permanent city col lection. The annual art exhibit will be held in Southport’s historic City Hall, with some entries on dis play in the library and in the Southport High School gym. Entry is open to any artist working in the fields of oils, water color, graphics, crafts or poetry with a special division tor young artists. The entry fee is $2.00. Artists may submit 6 works, 2 in any one category. Work must be hand delivered to the high school gym on Thurs day, July 1 between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. In addition to the cash pur chase prizes, cups will be awarded to the best works in each division. Artist may obtain entry blanks by writing to Southport Arts Festival, Junior Woman’s Club, Southport. In the past the Annual South port Arts Festival has attract ed work by leading artists in North Carolina. In addition, entries have come from as far away as the Panama Canal Zone, Florida and New York. This year’s judge is Ben Wil liams, Curator of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art. Eagle Island Bill Is Passed A bill creating the Eagle Island Maritime Commission! was passed Monday night by the General Assembly and set up an agency to promote and develop this property located at the Brunswick-New Han over line. It is now being used as a surplus ship lay-up basin. The House added the final stamp of approval ♦with the adoption cf a Senate amend ment which prohibits the com mission from obligating the state in any way. Rep. Odell Williamson of Brunswick County asked the House to adopt the amendment, ■ which was attached, by the Sen ate last. Friday. The amendment said, "Noth ing in this act shall be con strued as authorizing the cre ation or imposition of any fis cal obligation or liability of any nature whatsoever on the state of North Carolina or any agency or department thereof. The in tention of this act is to make the commission herein created ' an independent corporation." The commission would have the power of a corporation. It could construct facilities and place in operation a business establishment on the island which lies between the Bruns wick and Cape Fear rivers. ’ The legislation, co-authored by George T. Clark Jr. of Wilming ton, provides for the appoint ment by the governor of two members of a six-member com mission. Brunswick comissloners would appoint two. and New Hanover commissioners the re maining two. Tide Table Following Is 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 Gape Fear Pilot’s Association. HIGH LOW TIDE TABLE Thursday, dune 17, 9:49 A. M. 4:11 A. M. 10:14 P. M. 4:01 P. M. Friday, dune 18, 10:28 A. M. 4:50 A. M. 10:50 P. M. 4:42 P. M. Saturday, June 19, 11:10 A. M. 5:81 A. M. - 11:29 P. M. 5:25 P. M. Sunday, June 20, 11:56 A. M. 6:13 A. M. ■ 6:13 P. M. Monday, June 21, 0:12 A. M. 7:00 A. M. 12:48 P. M. 7:10 P. ML Tuesday, June 22, 1:01 A. M. 7:49 A. M. 1:43 P. M. 8:11 P. M. Wednesday, June 23, _ 1:55 A. M. 8:42 A. M. 2:41 P. M. 9:16 P. M.