The Pilot Covers Brunswick County! THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community iMost of the News All The Time Volume 25 No. 3 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30-1965 St A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Articles For Heritage Show DISPLAY—Mrs. Judy White displays heirlooms which will be shown ait the Her itage Show in the Southport Community Building Saturday and Sunday as a feature of the Fourth of July celebration here. Daughters Of » America Hold Special Night Councilor night for members and officers of Friendship Coun cil Number 18, Daughters of America, was held Tuesday night in the Chapter Hall in Southport. The assembly room was dec orated with ivy in front of each station, with red and blue candles on each station and red, white and blue flags in the windows, carrying out their colors of red, white and blue. The flags bearers, Mrs. Pearl Aldridge and Mrs. Gwendolyn Dixon, lighted the candles, after the lights were turned out. Alter America was sung, the councilor, Mrs. Evelyn Dosher, led in a prayer of thanks for the work that has been accom plished during the past year and for the lives of members that have died during the past twelve months. Mrs. Thelma Fisher was the only officer who had not missed a meeting night during the past year and she was presented a special gift from the councilor. All officers who had served with the outgoing councilor were asked to stand, and were pre sented with a gift from the coun cilor in appreciation for their cooperation during the year. Mrs. Ellen Watts gave a sum mary of the work accomplished. The councilor was presented with a gift from the members of the lodge, one from Mrs. Sally Holden and one from Mrs. Watts for the work she had done as councilor. Mrs. Laura Roughton is coun cilor for the coming year. The keys and rituals were turned over to her by Mrs. Dosher while wishing her the best of luck for the new year. Delicious refreshments were served by Mrs. Watts and Mrs. Catherine St. George. BENEFIT SUPPER The Ocean View Methodist Church will have a chicken sup per on Friday night from 5:30 to 7:30 o’clock at the church. CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY The Selective Service Board will be closed July 1 through July 5 and will reopen on July 6 on regular schedule. ON DEAN’S LIST Clara Ward of Longwood was named to the Dean’s List at Campbell College for the spring semester. ATTENDS WORKSHOP Roy A. Stevens, director of Brunswick County Resources De velopment Commission, attended a special workshop on problems Involved in providing utilities for Industry, Thursday at East Caro lina College, Greenville. Specific topics discussed dealt with the nature and problems of providing water, electricity, gas and tele phone service for Industry. For Hospital Storage BUILDING—The above building is the new storage facility for the 200-bed Civil Defense Emergency Hospital located on the Shallotte High School campus A. S. Knowles, County Civil Defense Director (left) is inspecting the building with Parley P. Pormy Duval, member of the boards county commissioners. Hospital Unit In Storage Facility The Brunswick County Civil Defense Agency’s 200-bed Emer gency Hospital now has perma nent storage space, reports A. S. Knowles, Civil Defense Di rector, The storage building is located on the Shallotte School Campus behind the teacherage and ad jacent to the football field. The building is 28 feet x 45 feet and is of masonry construction. The building was begun last summer. At that time the foot ing was put in and blocks layed to the top of the floor. During late summer the concrete floor was put in. David Carmichael of Shallotte and others are com mended for their free-gratis labor contribution in getting the building well underway. t The County Commissioners have recently sponsored the com pletion of the building and the 200-bed Emergency Hospital was moved into the new storage build ing last Thursday. We are in debted to Chandler Rourk and the Shallotte Hardware for their co operation in helping to store the Hospital facilities while perma nent storage was being planned and built. The 200-bed Emergency Hos pital is loaned to the Brunswick County Civil Defense Agency for use in either a Natural or Man Made Disaster. The facilities will be brought up to a 30 day operational capacity. This will include medicine and films for X-Ray. The field hospital is complete in every respect. It is new— that is never been used, it has a 15KW Emergency Genera tor tor complete lighting, it has one X-Ray Machine and a Genera tor for its use only. It is equipped Lost Is Found Before Missed Last Friday afternoon Wendell Brown of Lester lost his pocket book while visiting Brunswick Town and at 6:15 he reported his loss to the police depart ment at Southport. He was a little late. At 5:35 the local police had been advised by Arthur C. Men dell of Greensboro that he had found a pocketbook at Brunswick Town. He had turned it in, so the wallet lost by Brown was waiting for him before he had even re ported It missing. with nine operating tables and a water pump. In addition to the above facilities, it has 200 folding cots for beds, and has all the other materials and equipment necessary to operate as an in dependent unit. The Government will Inspect the hospital often and keep it updated without cost. The Shallotte School Is the only available facility large enough to set-up the hospital. The County Commissioners and County Board of Education worked out an agreement to build and store the hospital on the Shallotte School Campus. It is good to know that such fine facilities are available to Brunswick County, if ever needed. This is just a small part of the total program of the County Civil Defense Agency to save lives and property during periods of disaster. It also promotes shelter for the people and training to be prepared should any emergency or disaster ever come our way. Detection Of T. B. Scheduled Through School The TIME test, a tuberculin skin test, will be administered by the Brunswick County Health Department to students In the first and eighth grades during the next school year as the re sult of funds provided by the newly organized SENC Tubercu losis Association. On April 1 the Brunswick Coun ty Tuberculosis Association, which had been administered by the Southport Woman’s Club since it was organized, became a part of the regional tuberculosis or ganization which Is made up of Bladen. Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Onslow and Brunswick counties. At that time a request was made of the new organiza tion for the skin test which the Brunswick County Health Depart^ merit thought was badly needed In this county. The case detection testing will cost approximately $300. In addition, $80. was allocated for patient service, requests for which will be made through the Health Department. Two nurses from the Bruns wick County Health Department will attend a training program at Blue Ridge Assembly July 11-14 as the result of funds allocated at the same time. They are Mrs. Ruth Harrington and Miss Grey Moore. Mrs. Ed Harrelson serves as a member of the committee which allocates the funds which have been budgeted and serves as Brunswick’s representative of the Executive Committee. Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr. serves as the contact person for approv ing requests tor patient serv ices. Other members of the board of directors from Brunswick county are Mrs. A. P. Henry, Jr., Mrs. Elizabeth Brunson and Douglas Hawes. Sky Divers To Perform Here t i One of the main attrabtionsS during the Fourth of July week end here will be the appearance of the “Sky Divers," who will perform Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Taylor Field. Flying in a Fairchild 404 plane, the threedivers, Joe Jordan, Jack Lancaster, and Rudy Allen, will do a number of eye-catching stunts. One of the divers will jump from 5000 ft., free falling 20 seconds before opening his para cute. The other two divers will jump from a height of 1200 ft., free falling 60 seconds, and pass ing red and white smoke gre nades back and forth while falling, giving a simulated peppermint appearance to the act. Pilot of the plane is Tom Wat son. This show is another attraction that is being brought in by the Southport Jaycees. The wind and weather will be a determining factor in this event, and should there be adverse conditions a last-minute cancellation will be made in the interest of safety. The sky show is expected to keep a big crowd in town follow ing the music concert at 3 o'clock at Franklin Square by the Marine Band and Chorus. Big Sailfish Caught Here **rRI?*rrThis sailfish caught off Southport Sunday by fishermen aboard the MaAllister yacht Daedalus. This craft is permanently based at Southport after being,the first customer at the Small Boat Harbor. Saturday Morning &P? Parade Heads Celebration Hosiery Plant In J Shallotte Building Machinery Is being moved Into the Martin Nielson building at Shallotte this week by the Lark sheer Hosiery Mill which plans to go into production at his new location in about two weeks. Ronald Harris of Asheboro is the manager and he has moved with his wife to Shallotte. According to information, the operation will start with about 10 employees and application forms will be available starting Tuesday at the office of the (Continued On Page Pour) Time And Tide A new front page feature appeared In the June 26 edition in the year 1935. It was Called “Outstanding News From Everywhere”, and the keeper of the column was Miss Dorothy Bell, High Point College student, at home for the summer months. There was a front page feature, with photo, of John Wescott, identified as the last surviving Confederate veteran in Brunswick. A serious forest fire was raging in the Green Swamp, and boys from the CCC camp at Southport were helping with the round-the-clock battle. The Hood Building, recently purchased by Brunswick county, was being remodeled for use as county offices; threat of infantile paralysis had led to cancellation of at least two county-wide meet ings, but no case had thus far been reported in Brunswick; and we received an assist from Miss Branch Phelps, our Exam cor respondent, who urged public spirited people of the various com munities to send in the news to the county newspaper. A front page headline in our issue of June 26, 1940, announced that J. Melville Broughton the Democratic nominee for Governor, would be the speaker at the Fourth of July reunion scheduled here for members of the 2nd Trench Mortar Battalion, men who had served at Ft. Caswell during world War 1. Randolph Scott, famous movie star who had been a member of the outfit, had received a special Invitation to attend. W. S. Wells had received the Democratic nomination for Register of Deeds in a second primary election on Saturday; a front page headline proclaimed: “Army Training Is Planned For Adult Citi zens”; and a local lady, Mrs. L. C. Fergus, had received an in vitation to sing at the memorial service of the American Legion Convention in High Point. In this issue we started running the winning essays from the contest "Why We Should Protect Our Forests From Fire”, and the first was by Gwendolyn Krahnke. June 27 of the War years, vintage 1945; a Goldsboro corporation had purchased a large area of beach property from the Caswell Carolina Corporation. An unseasonal tropical storm had made its appearance, and with it had come a rainfall totaling 7.56 inches. This area had escaped damage from high winds and water, but (Continued on Page Four) Woodrow W. Robbins Plan Revival At Goshen Church The Rev. Woodrow W. Rob bins of High Point will be guest speaker for a week of revival meetings at Goshen Baptist Church starting Monday night. The Rev. Mr. Robbins Is a former pastor of Soldier Bay Baptist Church and Lebanon Baptist Church In this county, and has been pastor of a Baptist Church in High Point for about 15 years. He is weU known in Brunswick county and invites friends from every section to come worship with him during the special week of revival. Services will begin each eve ning at 8 o’clock. A 15 minute song service will precede the regular services with special music from several choirs from nearby churches. The Rev. Mr. Robbins is a graduate of Leland High School, attended Columbia Bible School and Wake Forest College and his first pastorate was at his home church, Goshen. He has been pastor of Lexington Avenue Bap tist Church for the past 15 years. Rev. J. C. Spivey of Wilmington is pastor of Goshen Baptist Church. Plans for an old fashion parade, replete with floats, Are trucks, Boy Scouts, horses, pretty girls and a 54-piece U. S. Marine band are now being completed for Southport’s big Fourth of July celebration. Harold Aldridge, parade chair man, has announced that arrange ments are making good progress. Highlighting the parade, which is scheduled for 11 o’clock Sat urday morning, is the 2nd Marine Division Band from Camp Lejuene, The Oak Island Coast Guard station is providing the color guard. The parade will form in front of Brunswick County High School and will march down Howe Street to Moore, will pass through the business district to Atlantic Avenue and will break up in front of Southport High School. Parade officials urge spectators to clear the street ahead of the procession and it is urged that no vehicles be parked after 10 a. m. Saturday on streets included in the line of march. A 24 member Marine chorus, under the direction of First Lieu tenant James J. Clark in, will perform in Franklin Square be side the City Hall at 3 o’clock that afternoon. The Southport Jaycees have scheduled a repeat of their highly successful fireworks display fbr (Continued On Page Pour) Heritage Show This Weekend The second annual presenta tion of the Heritage Show spon sored by the Southport Woman’s Club is scheduled this year for July 3-4 to concide with the Fourth of July celebration. The main exhibition will be held at the Community Building overlooking the harbor. A special display of the heirloom altar linens from St. Phillip’s Church at Brunswick Town will be held at St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church, Southport. The Heritage Show is not simply for display of antiques, as stress is to be put on family kinship with the items. Exhibits will consist of furniture, jewelry, silver, china, clocks, bric-a brac and souvenirs of military conflicts prior to World War I. Entries are still being accepted. Letters, papers and documents dating from the Colonial, Revolutionary and Civil War periods will be accepted in addition to the above items. Board Adopts Salary Scale 1 For Brunswick The Board of County Commis sioners has adopted a policy concerning the setting of salaries for clerical help em ployed by the county in the future. The beginning salary of cleri cal employees will begin at $200 per month tor the first year then will be raised to $225 per month minimum. To be excluded from this reso lution are the Welfare and Health Department. The following provisions are Included in a statement of policy designed to cover comity em ployees: Each department head shall be responsible tor recruiting and employing such clerical and technical employees as author ized by the budget tor his de partment. When filling a vacancy, each department head shall submit to the board of county commissioners a recommenda tion as to the position to be filled and the starting salary to be paid the new employee, in line with the duties and responsibilities to be performed and the qualifica fication and experience of the ap plicant. The decision of the com missioners shall determine the rate of pay of each new employ ee. With the exception of the sher iffs department, all county em ployees shall work from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. with a forty five minute lunch period. The following holidays, and such other days as the board of county commissioners may fix, shall be observed by county of- - flees: January 1, Easter Monday, July 4, Washington’s birthday, ' Thanksgiving Day, and three days at Christmas. Employees re-. qulred to work on the holidays' designated may be given compen satory time off for the holiday worked; provided further that when a designated holiday tolls on a Sunday, it will be observed the following Monday. All full-time county employees subject to tills resolution shall be 'granted one day of vacation Mite < pay tor each month of full-time " service in each fiscal year. At the last regular meeting of the board, a delegation from the Home Demonstration Clubs came before the commissioners to seek the services of an assistant home agent. With the women was Mrs. Billie H, DeVane, who has re signed as home agent, creating (Continued On Page Four) Mobile Museum Is Coming Here Arrangements have been com pleted with the North Carolina Department of Archives and His tory to have its Mobile Museum of History on display in South-^ port in connection with that re-*W sort town’s annual Fourth of July celebration. Joe Walton, president of the local Jaycee chapter, has an nounced that confirmation has been received from Mrs. Jo Phillips, Acting Education Cura tor of the Department of Ar chives and History that the Mo bile Museum will be open to the public in downtown Southport July 3-5. The big trailer will be parked in front of the Daughters of Amer ica Building between Moore and Bay streets. Dioramas of the fall of Fort Fisher and Blockade Running and Civil War Relics, includ ing a collection of guns, will be among the displays. 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 Cape Fear PUot’a Association. HIGH LOW TIDE TABLE Thursday, July 1, 8:40 A. M. 3:45 A. M. 10:02 P. M. 3:51 P. M. Friday, July 2, 10:37 A. ML 4:37 A. M. 10:58 P. M. 4:46 P. M. Saturday, July 3, 11:35 A. M. 5:29 A. M. 11:52 P. M. 5:43 P. M. Sunday, July 4, 12:34 A. M. 6:22 A. ML 6:44 P. M. Monday, July 5, 0:48 A. M. 7:17 A. M. 1:31 P. M. 7:46 P. M. Tuesday, July 6, 1:41 A. M. 8:11 A. M. 2:29 P. M. 8:47 P. M. Wednesday, July 7, 2:36 A. M. 9:05 A. M. 3:25 P, M. 9:46 P. M..

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