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THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume 25 No. 11 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1965 5* A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Visitor Center ■ Museum * CONTRACT'—A Wilmington firm has been awarded the contract for the con struction of the visitor center-museum at Brunswick Town, with completion slated early in 1966. This was announced Monday by the Department of Archives and History. At Brunswick Town Let Contract On Building SOUTHPORT—Contracts have been signed for construction of a aew $80,000 visitor center-mu seum at Brunswick Town State Historic Site, located on the lower Cape Fear River in Brunswick County. When completed, this new facility will be headquarters for the:- project and for the recep tion and orientation of visitors. It toill also house extensive mu seum exhibits telling the story of the important colonial site. The building is expected to be ready for the public by the spring of 1986. In early colonial days, Bruns wick Town was .the center of commercial and political life on the Cape Fear, but later was i“*~ superseded by fast growing Wib- w nungton which was better lo cated for inland river trade. Brunswick was the home of two royal governors — Arthur Dobbs and bis successor, Wil liam Tryon, prior to the lat ter’s moving to New Bern in 1770 to occupy the new Tryon Palace. Brunswick was the scene of dramatic protests against the Stamp Act in 1765, 200 years ago this year, and of many oth er important historic events. During die Revolution, Bruns wick was burned by the British, From this disaster it never re covered. By about 1830 it had ceased to be occupied and the site was sold to become a part of Orton Plantation nearby. During the Civil War, the Con federates built Ft. Anderson on the site, the massive earthworks of which still remain as one of the most interesting attractions for visitors. In the 1940’s interest was aroused for preserving and re storing the Brunswick site and approximately 119 acres were donated to toe State for this purpose. Beginning in 1958, with funds appropriated by the Gen eral Assembly, the Department of Archives and History began development. After making initial study, the Department of Archives and History determined Brunswick Town could best be handled as (Continued On Page Four) i Brief Bits Of \ LnewsJ FARM BUREAU MEET The Brunswick County Farm Bureau will hold a special meet ing Thursday night, August 28, 7;30 o’clock at the Agricultural Extension Building In Supply to discuss the new membership drive, the district dinner-meet, and mailing of membership notices, announced Ira L. Chad wick, president, this week. All board members, membership drive chairmen and their co workers, and Interested Farm Bureau members are Invited to attend. CURRENT INTERRUPTIONS Improvements in Brunswick Electric Membership Corpora tion facilities necessitate shut ting off electrical power at 5 a. m. and 2 p. m., Sunday, August 29. The 5 a. m. outage will affect the following areas: the town of Shallotte, Highway 17 from the South Carolina line North to Bolivia, and the beaches of Holden, Ocean Isle, and Sun set. The 2 p. m. outage will affect the Long wood, Freeland, Exum and Waccamaw area. Staff Sergeant Jack Cheers With Thunderbirds An Air Force pneudraulics repairman from Supply, has re turned to Nellis AFB, Nev., after touring Europe with the famous Th underbirds, official aerial demonstration team of the U. SI Air Force. Staff Sergeant Jack Cheers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Cheers, provided support and maintenance for the Thunder birds during a 30-day tour of 10 countries. The Thunderbirds performed 22 demonstrations in their F-105 Thunderchiefs, Including the Paris Air Show, and drew more than a million European viewers. Sergeant Cheers is a graduate of Shallotte High School and his wife, Rose, is the daughter of Mrs. Leona E. Parrish of Ash. Request Ferry To Honor Whitfield Members of the board of aider men for the City of Southport have passed a resolution requestion the State Highway Commission to name the Southport-Fort Fisher ferry in honor of J. Vivian Whitfield. A copy of this request has been forwarded to Joseph M. Hunt, chairman of the State Highway Commission in a letter from Mayor Eugene B. Tomlinson, Jr. Text of that letter follows: “August 23, 1965 “Honorable Joseph M. Hunt, Jr., Chairman N. C. State Highway Commission Raleigh, North Carolina “Dear Mr. Hunt: “The Board of Aldermen of County Schools Hold First Day Brunswick county schools opened today for their fall term without incident as integration became a fact at four of the five consolidated schools which hitherto had been attended by white students. At Southport three Negro stu dents reported. Two had been assigned in accordance with their request and were admitted. A third, who had not previously requested assignment, was not admitted. At Shallotte 35 Negro students were admitted out of the 58 which had been assigned. At Bolivia 7 Negro students had applied for admission and all showed up. At Waccamaw 15 of 17 Negro students who had made application for admission showed up and were admitted. Two Negro students had applied for admission atLeland,hadbeen granted permission, but neither appeared today. the City of Southport in a called meeting this date motioned that the ferry assigned to the South port-Fort Fisher run be re named in honor of Mr. J. Vivian Whitfield of Burgaw. “Mr. Whitfield has been along time advocate of this ferry serv ice. We believe that naming the vessel in his honor would be fitting and proper. “Your favorable consideration of this request will be ap preciated. “Sincerely “Eugene B. Tomlinson, Jr. “Mayor” Board Meeting Here Thursday The Brunswick County Board of Education met in special ses sion Thursday and R. T. Burney appeared before the Board to discuss the final inspection of the Lincoln gymtorium. The board unanimously ap proved that $6,000 of the amount owed Smith Construction Co. be paid at once and that the balance due be paid upon receipt of the final state inspection and a letter of assurance from Smith Con struction Co., that if stains re occur within 90 days after clean ing the stained portion will be replaced. Mrs. Flossie Parker and Mrs. Ada Bell Mims were hired as maids at Brunswick County High School. The contract of Helen G. Gore was approved to teach at Union High School. The following assignments and reassignments were made sub ject to submission of proper forms: Avery Walter Higgins, in, and Sandra Lee Higgins from Greensboro to Southport; (Continued On Page Four) Tobacco Sales Hit Season’s High Average Tobacco farmers in Columbus County hailed the reign of high prices on the market throughout the week. The season thus far has produced a remarkable in crease in averages over the com parable period in 1964. No sales day last week ended with the Whiteville market re ceiving less than a $64 average; and the same was true of the other three markets in Columbus. Improved tobacco quality ac counted for much of the Increase of total average between the two seasons following the close of the first week of exclusively tied to bacco. The ratio of nondescript and low primings dropped during the past week from the first seven day of sales. The ratio was also far lower than a year ago when such tobacco was making up the bulk of sales for the first three weeks. All Columbus County markets show sharp gains from a year ago. For the first 10 days White ville had a $48.72 average, com pared to its 1965 average of $63.07; Chadbourn, $53.83, com pared to $64.06; Fair Bluff, $52.17, compared to $64.17; and Tabor City, $51.60, compared to $65.56. The effective top for company buying during the last week ap peared to be $75, with a few sales; in the $76 and $77 range. Some select baskets of good and fine leaf and cutters brought $80 to $86. In Whiteville 10.7 million pounds had been sold through Fri day; this isamlllionmorepounds than sold through the first 12 selling days in 1964* Strange Surfer Gets Free Tow % P. W. Runyan and his' son, Tom, thought they were seeing . tilings Saturdajt, a% Siey the tip of Bald Head Island and . saw a man floundering in the surf. They were—and that’s just what they saw. t It was long distance surfer Larry Capune who had made his way along the shoreline, self propelled on his 14-foot surf board, from Carolina Beach in his latest leg of his New York to Florida voyage. Capune talked to them, lowed as how it was legal for him to accept a tow across the the treacherous Cape Fear River inlet, but insisted upon remain ing aboard his surfboard while he made the passage. Once on the Caswell side, the Runyans prevailed upon the young adventurer to stop by their cot tage on the oceanfront at Caswell Beach for food and refreshments. Once this had been done, he hit the surf again and began paddling his way southward on his long trip. He had hoped to reach Myrtle Beach that same night, but stopped instead at Holden Beach. On Sunday he was at Sunset Beach, another Brunswick county resort area. Capune, a 23-year-old New port Beach, Calif., college stu dent, is paddling an 18-foot surf board along the East Coast. He started his trip in Coney Is land, N.Y., See Historic Sights VISITORS—points of historical interest visited by Onslow Historical Society mem bers last Tuesday included a guided tourof Brunswick Town. Conducting this tour was BiU Faulk, site Assistant.—(CFN Photo, Daniels) Historians On Brunswick Tour Hit High Spots Twenty-one members of the Onslow Historical Society toured Brunswick County last Tuesday as one phase of their annual tour of North Carolina points of historical interest. The visit began at 1 p. m. with a guided tour of Brunswick Town. Conducting the tour was a Southport resident, Bill Faulk, of the N. C. Dept, of Archives and History. Following the tour of Bruns wick Town, the Onslow County visitors drove to Franklin Square in Southport, where they were served refreshments by Mrs. Edwin T. Driscol, vice-presi dent of the Brunswick County Historical Society,, at 3 p. m. ^ -The ylsitfag^iii' iOoMlpE County historians, following refresh ments, visited the Southport Small Boat Harbor, recently opened by the N. C. (Ports Authority, Fort Johnson and Fort Caswell. The group ended their tour with a visit to the battleship North Carolina at Wilmington where they attended the show Sound and Light. Serving as hostess to the visit ing Onslow County group was Mrs. M. H. Rourk of Shal lotte, president of the Brunswick County Historical Society. She was assisted by Roy Stevens, formerly of Jacksonville, who is now director of the Brunswick County Resources Development Commission. Onslow County historians par ticipating in the tour were N. E. Day, president of the Onslow Historical Society, Mrs. N. E. Day, Judge Harvey Boney, Miss Hathway Price, Mrs. Annie Price, Mrs. Collier Cobb, Mrs. W. B. Hurst, Mrs. J. B. Scott, Mrs. J. P. Brown, Mrs. o. J. Shamburger, Mrs. Barbara Lyon, Mrs. Margaret Patterson, Mrs. Ann McGuire, Don Grady and Mrs. Hedrick Aman of Jackson ville and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Greese, Mrs. May Frank Koonce, Miss Sallle Franck, Miss Leah Franck and Mrs. Eliza MiUs Boggs of Richlands. Time And Tide A front page story in our Issue of August 28, 1935, declared that record prices were being paid for tobacco, and averages quoted for succeeding days were: $26.04, $28.03, $24.63 and $24.32— but it is well remembered that this was in the mid-thirties and that the depression was not long past. Schools were to open that fall on September 19. Mr. Dave Davis of Southport owned a time-keeping machine that had the 8-day clock backed off the boards. Her clock, brought over from Switzerland by her father, the late L. Miller, required winding but once each year. Efforts were being made for a cooper ative advertising venture for promotion of Brunswick county. A headline on our edition for August 21, 1940; “Tobacco Aver ages 20 cents On Opening.” And the story said that farmers were pleased with prices being paid. This was back in the days when Mr. Wallace Moore was farming in Walden Creek, and he had invited not only the members of the Men’s Bible Class at Trinity Methodist Church to come out to his place for a Sunday afternoon watermelon feast, but earlier in the day had played host to a bunch of boys from the Sunday School class of his son, Wallace, Jr. Mary Morrison had found a Duke ring owned by John Garrett he had lost 6 years before at Caswell Beach; the vocational agricul ture class at Bolivia had spent the past week at Tom Brown Camp at Bernardsville; and a 60-day duck season had been approved for the year by the Federal Wildlife Commission. It was August 22, 1945, and tobacco prices had stepped up con siderably during the intervening five years. Average for the first week of sales on the Border Belt had been $44.74 per hundred. Lewis J. Hardee had his shrimp fleet operating in Louisiana, but his loyalty was back in North Carolina. One of his trawlers had been named the Southport, another the Tar Heel. Military men were returning home and were coming out of uni (Continued On Page Pour) Farm Election Is Key To Program MRS. RACHEL K. HOLLIS Winnabow Girl' Will Graduate Mrs. Rachel K. Hollis, a Brunswick county girl, will be a member of the graduating class of the James Walker School of Nursing next Wednesday night. Mrs. Hollis graduated from Bolivia High School In 1962 and entered James Walker Hospital School of Nursing in August of that year. She received full tuition scholarship from the Brunswick County Tuberculosis Association. During her fresh man year she served on the com mittee for preparing a float for the school of nursing entered in Azalea Festival parade; in her Junior year she was president of Young Woman’s Auxiliary; and during her senior year she was co-editor of the yearbook “The Epotone”, publicity chairman for Young Woman’s Auxiliary and valedictorian of her graduating class. The baccalaureate service will be held Sunday at Calvery Bap tist Church with the Rev. A. L. McGee as speaker. Graduation exercises will be Wednesday eve ning at First Baptist church. (Continued On Page Four) Man Dies Soon After His Son A Navassa man was killed in an auto accident early Sunday morning, about three miles from the spot where his son was killed 10 days before. The body of Aria Malone Sr., 58, was found in his partially submerged automobile in a drainage ditch two miles west of Navassa about 4 p. m. High way Patrolman J. E. Farmer re ported the man had been dead about two hours when discovered. Malone had apparently fallen asleep at the wheel while driv ing on rural paved road 1430. His car went through a T in tersection with road .1431 and plunged into the channel, t h e officer reported. The patrolman said an exam ination of the body showed the cause of death was chest injur ies, apparently caused by the steering wheel on impact. Water was about 10 inches deep inside the car according to reports. Farmer said the man’s son, Aria Malone, 18, was killed about three miles away when he fell from the back of a station wagon 10 days before. Farmers this week got a last-minute reminder about im portant elections which will be held in Brunswick county August 31 through September 10. The elections are to choose ASC farmer-committeemen who will serve for the next year as local administrators of national farm action programs. According to Lonnie Evans, chairman, Agricultural Stabili zation and Conservation Commit tee, these ASC Committeemen have broad important program responsibilities, which makes it all the more urgent that repre sentative farmers be elected to the job. Programs administered by the 'Committeemen include the Agri cultural Conservation Program, acreage allotments, marketing quotas, commodity loans, the feed grain program, the voluntary wheat program, and farm storage facility loans. Other duties are assigned to the committees by the Secretary of Agriculture as the need arises. Last year, over 1100 farm ers—50 percent of the total farm ers in Brunswick county—took part in one or more programs administered by the ASC com mittees. Funds disbursed under the committees’ supervision amounted to more than $260, 000. Last year 3,961 acres of farmland in Brunswick improved under the Agricultural Conserva tion Program cost-sharing ar rangement. This cost $67,728, with about half coming from the participating farmer, the balance from ACP. Explaining the election proce dure, the chairman said that each year qualified voters— farmers who are eligible to take part in one or more of the farm programs which the committees administer—elect a community committee from among their own number. The chairman, vice chairman, and regular member of this committee also serve as delegates to a county conven tion, where the ASC county com mittee is elected. In Brunswick, eligible voters will cast ballots for community committeemen by mail between August 31 and September 10. All ballots must be in the ASCS office or postmarked by not later than September 10. They will be opened and publicly tabulated by the county committee on Sep tember 15 at the ASCS office in Shallotte. There is one very important change in voting this year. There is a certification on the back of the envelope which is to be used (Continued On Page Four)’ Bond Sales In Brunswick Slow Cash sales of U. S. Savings Bonds in Brunswick County amounted to $745.00 in July. For the first seven months of this year E and H Bonds sold totaled $7,571.00, which represents 20.4 percent of the county’s bond quota for this year according to a re port received today from Aubrey Johnston, Brunswick County Vol unteer Bond Chairman. State-wide, bond sales for July were $4,046,178. Cumulative sales for the year totaled $30, 323,518. This is 57.1 percent of the State’s annual quota of $53,100,000. Percentage-wise, sales in the state were off 5 percent in July and for January through July showed a decline of less than 2 percent. Charges Jury On Importance Of Its Duties •A one-week term of Superior court convened here Monday for trial of civil cases, with Judge J. William Copeland of Hertford presiding. During the course of his charge to the jury Judge Copeland had the following pertinent remarks to make about current condi tions: “The time In which we live disturbs me greatly, not only In this nation but In this world. There is turmoil about us every where but In the midst of all this turmoil both here and abroad we must recognize, all of us must recognize, unless we all wish to be destroyed by our own handwork, that the law Is supreme. The law must be supreme and we must yield to the law. If you do not yield ' to the law you will be the loser and you will be destroyed. There are those in recent years In our land who have advocated a policy of violating those laws that do not suit their convenience. That is bad. There Is one way to change a law and that Is not by your own hand but It can be changed In the Legislature If you are not satisfied with it. Now those who would take the law in their own hands must recognize If they will stop and think that if they do, in the end certainly others will take the law in their own hands and the new results as you can see immediately is anarchy. Anarchy does not re spect you. It does not respect me. It respects no one. You will be destroyed. For as the Bible says if you live by the sword you will die by the sword. "I just wanted to bring those things to the attention of every body here In this county and else where In the country and nation. I feel that it Is extremely im portant at this time when we are making changes in our way of life in this nation and elsewhere for I believe that the law must (Continued On Page FV>ur) - . : :• . ■ r'i ./ ;• r Courses Being Started Here This fall the students of Shal lotte and Union High Schools will be offered a course In In troduction to Vocations, which is referred to as the I. V. Pro gram. The objective of the course Is to help students de velop plans regarding their oc cupational and educational fu tures and the program is designed to help ninth-grade students make the choices which lead to an ultimately satisfying vocation. Recognizing this need, the North Carolina Legislature in 1963 passed the Clark-Long Bill establishing the L V. Program on an experimental basis. During the 1963-64 school year 45 schools were involved in the program. Ninety five schools participated in 1964-65. The past year ended the experimental phase of the new approach to vocational education as au thorized by the Clark-Long Bill. As of July 1, 1965 L V. be came a bona fide vocational pro-, gram which is federally reim bursed just as other vocational education. The I. V. section has requests for programs to be offered in approximately 250 schools during the 1965-66 school year. Such an increase indicates that administrators see a real need for L V. Mrs. Sarah B. Rogers and Miss Margia M. Leach have recently attended a two-weeks workshop at North Carolina State University. Mrs. Rogers will direct the L V. program at Shallotte High School and Miss Leach at Union High School. Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's As sociation. Thursday, August 26, 7:15 A. M. 1:22 A. M. 7:42 P. M. 1:34 P. M. Friday, August 27, 8:09 A. M. 2:11 A. M. 8:33 P. M. 2:27 P. M. Saturday, August 28, 9:01 A. M. 2:58 A. M. 9:21 P. M. 3:17 P. M. Sunday, August 29, 9:52 A. M. 3:44 A. M. 10:09 P. M. 4:08 P. M. Monday, August 30, 10:43 A. M. 4:30 A. M. 10:57 P. M. 4:59 P. M. Tuesday, August 31, 11:34 A.M. 5:16 A.M. 11:45 P. M. 5:50 P. M. Wednesday, September 1, 12:27 A. M. 6:04 A. M. 6:45 P. M. -T—
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