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Volume 25
No. 6
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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1965
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Soloists With Staff Choir
MARGARET MOORE
MARGARET POOLE
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RUTH COLVARD
Assembly Staff
Choir To Sing
In Southport
The Stall Choir ol the North
Carolina Baptist Assembly will
present a program ol sacred
music at the Southport Baptist
Church Sunday evening at 7:30
o’clock. The choir, under the
direction ol Carroll Stegall ol
Randleman, is composed ol 48
college students who serve on the
stall at the assembly. Homer
McKeithan, Jr., ol Southport is
the organist, Robert Jervis ol
Fayetteville, the pianist.
The program will include a
wide variety ol music, with fami
liar hymns and folk songs as well
as the works ol Bach and Faure.
A male quartet, a mixed quartet,
the girls’ chorus and soloists
will be featured in various selec
tions.
Through the years the Stall
choir has earned a state-wide
reputation lor its high calibre
ol performance and for its
meaningful contribution to the
worship services held each Sun
day at the assembly during its
season, which runs from mid
June to mid-August. The choir is
often asked to sing for con
ferences at the assembly. This is
the first time, though, that lt“Har
given a complete program in a
local church. It was arranged by
Rev. E. C. Chamblee, pastor ol
the Southport Baptist Church,
with the co-operation ol Fred J.
Smith, manager ol the assembly.
Featured soloist will be: Mar
garet Poole, mezzo-soprano
from Thomasville; RuthColvard,
soprano from Pahokee, Florida;
Margaret Ann Moore, soprano
from Concord; and Carroll
Stegall, baritone. Miss Colvard
is already known to the Baptist
congregation at Southport, since
she sang for the morning wor
ship service here last Sunday.
Much Interest
In 4-H Week
By BURNETT COLEMAN
Asst. Agricultural Ex. Agent
N. C. State 4-H Club Week
is July 26-30. It is being held
on the N. C. State University
campus. This will be a week
filled with recreational activi
ties, demonstration contests, a
talent show, a dress revue and
the State Health Pageant. Any
4-H’er who is 14 years ol age
by July 26, 1965 is eligible to
attend.
This year there will be two
sections of special interest peri
ods and two special interest
classes. A club member may
choose to be in one ol the sec
tions or a special interest class.
Section I includes “Cars” their
care and keep; Care - For World
Friendship and Understanding;
and a class on a challenge in re
cord keeping. Section n will in
clude “Your 4-H Demonstra
tions”; “New 4-H Projects For
You”; “Your Appearance
Counts”; (lor boys) and "The
Charming You” (for girls).
The two special classes are
Song Leadership and Recreation
(Continued On Page Four)
BBrief Bits Of
H\EW
BENEFIT FISH FRY
A benefit fish fry will be served
at Ocean View Methodist Church
at Yaupon Beach Friday beginning
at 5 o’clock. Fresh flounder
will be the main item on the
menu.
EARLY NEXT WEEK
The Pilot will be published on
Tuesday next week instead of on
Wednesday, the regular day for
publication. The North Carolina
Press Association will hold its
Summer Convention in Asheville
starting Thursday and it will
be necessary for the editor to be
there early.
HOMER McKEITHAN, JR,
CARROLL STEGALL
Long Beach Tax
Rate Set At $1.00
The Long Beach Board of Com
missioners voted at the regular
July meeting to establish an ad
valorum tax rate of $1.00 for
the fiscal year 1965-66.
Outgoing Town Manager Donald
Archer had recommended a tax
"rote' 'bf' $i‘.50 per one hundred
dollars of assessed evaluation
in order to retire a deficit of
$28,915.60 outstanding at the end
of the fiscal year just past.
In asking for a motion to set
the tax rate at $1.00 per hundred,
Mayor E. F. Middleton stated
that he and sons of the commis
sioners thought that it was a
mistake to abandon plans for go
ing to the higher rate.
Approval of the lower tax rate
was given, with one abstention,
in the presence of a large dele
gation of citizens who had re
tained Southport attorney A. H.
Gainey to represent them in pro
testing the tax hike.
Middleton stated that by ac
cepting the lower rate, the Board
committed Long Beach to run
ning a deficit for the next two
years.
“This will definitely prevent
our going ahead with plans for
a bond issue for a water sys
tem for at least two years,”
Middleton said.
At the June meeting, when
ways to meet the current diflclt
were discussed, it was pointed
out that one of the main reasons
for the proposed tax hike, raising
the rate from .75 per hundred
to $1,50 per hundred, was to put
the town on a sound financial
footing in order to get Local
Government Commission ap
proval for the proposed water
system bond referendum.
Commissioner E. M. Under
wood said of the move to set the
tax rate at $1.00 rather than at
$1.50, "We’re not facing facts.”
"We haven’t faced facts for
four years, why face them now,”
said Commissioner w. W. Ven
nel.
Gainey, the attorney for the
group of citizens protesting the
proposed tax raise, spoke to the
Board. He told the commis
sioners that their proposed
budget did not take into account
revenue to be derived by a new
tax to be levied on The Bruns
wick Electric Membership Cor
poration, the R.E.A. power com
pany serving Long Beach.
Gainey said the electric co-op
would be taxed at 50% of what
their regular tax bill would be
in the current fiscal year, 100%
in the next fiscal year.
Gainey also made mention of a
complete revaluation of all
Brunswick County taxable prop
erty which is now being pre
pared.
"The people I represent don’t
want Long Beach to have the
dubious distinction of having the
highest tax rate of any North
Carolina beach,” Gainey said.
After hearing Gainey, Mayor
Middleton asked for a motion
of acceptance of the proposed
$1.00 rate. The motion was made
by Commissioner Nick Coleman,
seconded by E. M, Underwood.
Underwood called for a roll call
vote. With Commissioner Bill
Love absent and not voting, the
vote was three to nothing in favor.
(Continued On Page Four)
Sunny Point
Name Change
Sunny Point Army Terminal
has been redesignated Military
Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point,
effective July 1, 1965 per De-~
partment of the Army General
Order No. 17.
In addition, the same order,
Kings Bay Army Terminal, a
subordinate installation of Sunny
Point which is located near Jack
sonville, Florida, has been re
designated Military Ocean Ter
minal, Kings Bay.
Both Kings Bay and Sunny Point
are now under the jurisdiction of
the Commander, Military Traffic
Management and Terminal Serv
ice, Headquarters, Washington,
D. C„ with Eastern Area Mili
tary Traffic Management and
Terminal Service, Brooklyn, New
York, the intermediate headquar
ters.
River Pilot Is
Heart Victim
James D. Loughlin, Southport
resident and member of the Cape
Fear Pilot Association, died Fri
day morning in Wilmington after
being fatally stricken with a heart
attack as he boarded the tanker
"Atlantic Trader’* to bring her
down the river.
His death was investigated by
New Hanover Coroner Starr Mc
Millan, who ruled that it had
apparently resulted from a heart
attack.
The deceased was a native of
Wilmington, where he resided
until three years ago when he
moved to Southport. He had a
number of relatives in South
port.
Loughlin complained of short
ness of breath shortly after
boarding the ship and sat down on
the deck to catch his breath,
prior to going to the bridge to
take command of the vessel,
when he collapsed while in sit
ting position, McMillan said.
McMillan said Loughlin was
brought back to the terminal on
a tug and carried by ambulance
to the hospital, where he was
pronounced dead.
Funeral services were con
ducted at 3 p. m. Saturday at
St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church
in Southport by the Rev. Fred
Foreman. Burial followed in
Northwood Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were B.
M. Burris, W. W. McKinnon,
Charles C. Blach, George H.
Melvin, M. M. Hood and Earl
Allen.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Desitte Bosser Loughlin of
Southport; his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Loughlin of Wil
mington; three sons, James D.
Loughlin Jr. of Tooele, Utah,
William H. Loughlin of Wilming
ton and Edward Loughlin of
Wrightsville Beach; two broth
ers, Charles E. Loughlin of Mo
bile, Ala., and Howard N.
Loughlin of Wilmington; two
sisters, Mrs. Earnest Sylivant
of Grifton and Mrs. Thomas
Bowmer of Georgetown, S. C,
Burlington Man
Drowns In Surf
At Long Beach
Robert H. Shoffner, 48, general
manager of the Coble Farm
Equipment Company in Burling
ton, drowned early Sunday morn
ing while swimming near the
Long Beach Pier.
The accident was witnessed
by dozens of people on the
crowded fishing pier, several
fishermen joined in rescue ef
forts.
According to eye witnesses,
Shoffner was floating on a rubber
raft about 500 feet from the
strand with two of his five chil
dren, Lyndall, 9 and Katherine,
12.
The fatality was the first on
any Brunswick County beach this
year, the second in all the county.
Earlier this year a Southport
man drowned in the Cape Fear
River near the Southport city
pier.
Sunday’s fatality occured when
a wave dumped Shoffner and his
two daughters Into the water.
Their call for help was answered
by Shoffner’s two sons, Robert
H. Shoffner, Jr., 20, and Kenneth
Shoffner, 18.
Also joining In the rescue at
tempt were W. H. Farrington,
Route 1, High Point; S. D. Land
ersman, Annapolis, Maryland;
Gene Barber, Laurel Hill and
Bruce Thomas, Sanford.
Thomas was credited by wit
nesses as being solely re
sponsible for the rescue of the
youngest Shoffner daughter.
The Long Beach Volunteer Fire
Department Resuce Squad used
a resusitator on Shoffner for over
an hour before Shoffner was pro
nounced dead by an unidentified
Fayetteville doctor.
The body was taken to Dosher
Memorial Hospital in Southport
for transfer to Gilbert Funeral
Home. Brunswick County Cor
oner Lowell Bennett pronounced
accidental drowning as the cause
of death. There will be no in
quest, Bennett said.
Shoffner’s body was flown back
to Burlington Sunday afternoon.
Crab Business '
Is Important
North Carolina ranked third in
the nation in 1964 in production of
hard blue crabs, the State De
partment of Conservation & De
velopment advised this week.
The information came from
Harry Davis, reporting specialist
for the U. S. Bureau of Commer
cial Fisheries at Beaufort.
North Carolina, with a produc
tion of 24,091,500 pounds of hard
blue crabs in 1964, passed Flori
da, which reported a total of
21,747,000 pounds. Included in the
North Carolina total were 69,700
pounds of soft or peeler type
crabs. It’s the highest rank
this state has ever had in hard
blue crab production.
Virginia ranked No. 1 in the
nation last year in hard crab
production, with around 52 mil
lion pounds. Maryland, home of
the National Crab Derby in which
North Carolina crabs compete
annually, was second with around
25 million pounds.
Dr. David A. Adams State Fish
eries Commissioner and head of
the C&D Department’s Division
(Continued On Page Eight)
j
CONFER
Conference With The High Brass
-General Wesley Guest, right, is shown here talking with former Kor
■ rcesiaent Syngman Rhee„ as, the latter inaugurates service over a newly in
4talled comm6fiiǤ^hs systefft. Pfekt tb her husband' is Mariame Rhee and fa-t***
middle is General Jameg A. VanFleet, Commander General of EUSAK
For General Guest ^ 4
Recalls Friendship
! Death half-way round the world
i'onday of Syngman Rhee, former
president of Republic of Korea,
brought back memories for Gen
eral Wesley Guest of South
port, who once was a close per
sonal friend of this world figure.
I General Guest, now retired and
living in Southport, recalled that
vhile serving with the Eighth
: Army in Korea in 1951 he had
been decorated with the Order
of Military Merit by President
Rhee. It was for special work in
re-establishing communications
in this war-devastated country,
and it earned for General Guest
the undying gratitude of the ruler
of that country.
General Guest said that he had
photographs taken of President
Rhee and himself, and brought
forth a large scrapbook filled with
documentary evidence that he had
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Our July 17 edition for the year 1935 announced that C. A.
Ledford had been elected principal at Southport High School.
Heavy rains had caused crop and road damage in Brunswick
county, with a cave-in occurring on Highway No. 17 near Bolivia.
Announcement was made that work was about to begin on the
erection of a seafood freezing plant at Southport.
A 6-foot alligator had been caught in a shrimp net while trawling
operations were in progress in a creek near Southport; a mule be
longing to a farmer in the Shallotte Village area had been struck
and killed by lightning; and our community news coverage in
cluded correspondence from Grissettown, Shallotte Village, Town
Creek, Wlnnabow and Supply Route No. 1.
Seven new historical markers had been erected in Brunswick
according to report in our July 17 edition for the year 1940. A
Little Theatre group had been organized here and Leila Hubbard
(Pigott) had been elected president. Homecoming services were
being planned at New Hope Presbyterian Church for the following
Sunday.
Contract had been let for printing 15.000 advertising folders for
Brunswick county; cottages were springing up at Long Beach; and
one of our columnists had observed that "It is getting to be right
much of a summer colony over there.”
W. R. Lingle had resigned as principal at Southport High School
and had accepted a similar position in Jacksonville. This news
was contained in The Pilot for July 18, 1945. Business was
slacking off at the Wilmington Shipyard and the W. B. & S. had
taken off their regular bus to that installation.
The war was still in progress, but Japan was being subjected
to a merciless bombing by u. S. forces. A front page picture
showed a World War n hero, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in
an informal pose with his mother. Shore fishermen had reported
the first run of “August” mullets.
Those who are inclined to be discouraged over this year’s
(Continued On Page Four)
Promoted At Sunny Point
Lieutenant Jimmy J. Justice, Assistant Director
for Operations at the Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny
Point, has recently been promoted to the rank of first
lieutenant. Photo shows Mrs. Justice pinning the new
insignia of rank on her husbartd while Lt. Colonel
Archie B. Joyner, Jr., terminal commander, looks on.
Pupil Assignment
Plan Announced
A. W. Taylor, superintendent
of Brunswick County Schools, Is
in Raleigh today with Chairman
James Thompson and Attorney
Kirby Sullivan to confer with
representatives of the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare seeking approval of the
integration plan that has been
submitted for use during the
coming school term.
Dredge Starts
On Ferry Slip
A dredge from the Arkinston
Dredging Co. moved into the
mouth of Price Creek Monday,
and Tuesday morning work be
gan on cutting the slip for the
Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry.
Already the State Highway
forces had been at work clear
ing the right-of-way for the ap
proach highway and clearing the
site for the parking area and
dock on this side of the river.
The combined operation has
created a scene of busy activity.
The plan has been set up on
the formula of integrating
schools of Brunswick county on
grades 1-7-9-11. This was done
when 602 Negro students made
application for reassignment to
scnoois that formerly had been
all-white.
Under the proposal that has
been submitted a total of 132
Negro students will be assigned
to former all-white schools. This
will be a total of 22 at Waccamaw,
94 at Shallotte, 9 at Bolivia, 5
at Southport and 2 (the only ones
to apply) at Leland.
A complete list of students
reassignments appears on anoth
er page in this issue of The Pilot.
The Brunswick County Board of
Education met Monday and
Neil Mallory was interviewed
by the board for the job as su
pervisor of the county high
schools.
E. M. Underwood, of Sanford
was interviewed regarding the
auditing of school records and ac
counts. He requested that he be
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Credit Source
Assistance To
County Farmers
A small amount of credit to
needy farm and rural families
may prove to be one of the Federal
government’s biggest weapons in
the battle against rural poverty
in Brunswick county.
This is the feeling of Parks C;
Fields, who supervises the anti
poverty campaign tor the
Farmers Home Administration in
this county.
Among Hie anti-poverty weap
ons available in rural areas in
a recently authorized local pro
gram which enables eligible farm
and rural families to get capital
to finance farm or business
enterprises that will lead to in
creased income.
The new credit program offers
help tor the first time to many
rural families in Brunswick who
previously were unable to obtain
credit to improve their earnings.
Loans are also available to
rural cooperatives serving low
income families and providing
services and facilities not other
wise available.
Borrowers are provided con
tinuing management aid to help
them make a success of their
farming or new business.
Farm families may obtain
loans to finance agricultural en
terprises. Funds may be used
to purchase livestock, machinery
and equipment, construct or re
pair farm buildings, pay annual
operating expenses for seed, feed
and fertilizer, refinance real
estate debts and purchase land.
The loans also may be used
to buy shares in small coopera
tives that serve rural people.
Farm and nonfarm families
living in the country or in small
towns of not more than 3,500
population may obtain loans to
finance non-agrlcultural enter
prises.
Economic opportunity loans
may be made in amounts up to
$2,500., bear 4-1/8 percent in
terest, and may be repaid over
periods up to 15 years.
Eligible applicants must have
an income that does not cover
basic family living needs, be un
able to obtain credit from other ,
sources, including the regular f 1
loan program of Farmers Home
Administration, and show ai
reasonable promise of succeed
(Continued On Page Four)
Tobacco Meet
At Waccamaw
TObacco prices tor 1965, new
government grades and a grading
demonstration will be a few of
the subjects to be discussed at
a special meeting on tobacco
marketing for tobacco growers
in the Vocational Agriculture De
partment at Waccamaw High
School next Tuesday night, ai
8 o’clock. This announcement
comes from Ralph C. King,
teacher of agriculture at Wac
camaw.
John H. Cyrus, a tobacco
marketing specialist with the
North Carolina Department of
Agriculture, will be present to
discuss the current problems
facing the tobacco industry and
the tobacco grower with empha
sis on preparing the tobacco
crop to meet the 1965 market
demand. Cyrus will employ an
actual demonstration in tobacco
grading and will use a special
tobacco grading light in his dis
cussion.
All tobacco growers and per
sons who will be involved in the
preparation of tobacco tor market
are urged to attend this meet
ing. Some may wish to bring
a few sticks of tobacco from a
a particular curing to have it
separated into its proper grades.
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 Oape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, duly 22,
1:10 A. M. 7:58 A. M.
2:03 P. M. 8:42 P. M.
FRIDAY, JULY 23,
2:11 A. M. 8:57 A. M.
3:06 P. M. 9:50 P. M.
Sautrday, July 24,
3:17 A. M. 9:58 A. M.
4:09 P. M. 10:54 P. M.
Sunday, July 25,
4:24 A .M 10:59 A. M.
5:10 P. M. 11:54 P. M.
Monday, July 26,
5:28 A. M. 11:58 A. M.
6:09 P. M.
Tuesday, July 27,
6:31 A. M. 0:51 A. M.
7:06 P. M. 12:54 P. M.
Wednesday, July 28,
7 :30 A. M. 1:43 A. M.
8:00 P. M. 1:48 P. M.