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A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Volume 25
No. 12
8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. G WEDNESDAY, September 1, 1965 5$ a GOPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
County Board
Holds Special
Session Monday
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met in special ses
sion on Monday and the following
teacher contracts were approved)
Leland - Harry Keith Hewett;
Bolivia - Jean B. Carroway and
Lincoln - Joyce Neal Clemmons.
The status of vocational fund
reimbursement was discussed. It
was pointed out that funds must
be received by the October quar
ter. Superintendent A. W. Taylor
informed the board that the au
ditor would be in the county short
ly to draw up a supplementary
budget and that the aduitor would
review individual school audits
with principals and secretaries.
The board approved transfer of
the balance of funds coded under
630 to supervisor’s travel.
Supt. Taylor informed the
board that the health department
will co-operate in giving exam
inations to ho me ec. girls in order
that these students might obtain
food handlers permits.
The regular monthly meeting
for September was changed from
September 6 to September 7.
The final inspection report on
the lincoln gym was submitted
to the Board by Supt. Taylor.
It was noted by Chairman James
Thompson that there were dis
crepancies in the State and coun
ty electrical reports. Action
was delayed until the Sept. 7
meeting in order that the dis
crepancies be ironed out.
Homer Holden moved that
Architect Julian Altobellis be
authorized to let the contract
for the water storage and supply
system for Leland School; use
the side fed stoker in the pro
posed boiler room addition at
Leland School as recommended
by the State Planning Department;
order the boiler assembly for the
above project; order piping,
fittings and other materials re
quired for instaUailon of the new
heating system. The board voted
unanimous approval.
The following requests for ad- .
mission and assignment to the
' r following schools were approved
by the board.
Request for admission to Le
land High School, - Jerri Rae
Kennedy; requests for reassign
ments to Leland High School -re
becca Neville, Lenwood Gene
Malpass, James Dexter Malpass,
Rita Diane Rogers, Linda Ann
Rogers, Michael Richards,
(Mother D. FormyDuval) Debra
Ann McKee, Sherial Lynn Mc
Kee, Dianne Norris, Sherry Gail
Hewett; requests for school as
signment to Southport High
School - Elvia Long, Sharron
Long, Mlchell Stanley, Paul
Charles Ennis; Amos McMillan
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B=NEWS=s
SMORGASBOARD
The WSCS of Ocean View Meth
odist Church will have a
smorgasboard supper on Septem
ber 3, from 5 until 7:30 o’clock.
BAZAAR COMING
The annual bazaar for the
WSCS of Trinity Methodist
Church will be held on Novem
ber 5.
bake sale
The Episcopal Churchwomen of
St. Phillips Church will hold
a bake sale in front of the post
office Saturday morning starting
at 9 o’clock.
BAKE SALE
There will be a Bake Sale
on Friday, Sept. 3 sponsored
by the Southport Woman’s Club
for the benefit of the Commun
ity Building Roof Fund. In addi
tion to cakes and pies, there will
be sandwiches for sale. The sale
will be at 9 a. m. between the Post
Office and Leggett’s.
BENEFIT SUPPER
The Mt. Plsgah Baptist Church
will sponsor an old-fashion buf
fet supper on Saturday, Septem
ber 4 at the education building
of the church from 5 to 9 p. m.
This supper will feature lots of
good things to eat, including
homemade cakes and pies which
will also be on sale. All proceeds
will go to the new church build
ing fund.
DISTRICT GOVERNOR
The District Governor of Lions
International will be a visitor
at the Regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club tomorrow
(Thursday) evening at 6:30
o’clock at Trade Winds Restau
rant at Yaupon Beach. All mem
bers of the club are particularly
urged to be present.
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Summer Research
STUDENT RESEARCHER—Fred M. Burdette of
Southport has been working this summer as a student
researcher in the Department of Microbiology of the
Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston Salem. He
is shown here conducting studies on immunity. Bur
dette, son of Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Burdette of South
port, will begin his second year as a Bowman Gray
student September 13.
Seafood Products
Showing Increase *
Dockside value of finflsh and
and shellfish landed on North
Carolina shores for the first
six months of 1965 was $1,216,400
greater than for the same period
last year, the Department of Con
servation and Development
reported today.
The dockside value, or whal
commercial fishermen received
for their catches, or finfish and
shellfish taken during the first
half of 1965 was $3,928,850 com
pared with $2,711,430 for the
corresponding period in 1964.
They do not include the pro
cessed value.
The figures obtained from the
U. S. Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries at Beaufort by James
T. Brown, biologist in charge
of the research and develop
ment section of the C&D Depart
ment’s commercial fisheries
division, show landings of nearly
all species are either up or about
the same as for the same period
in 1964, but there was a sharp
Increase in value.
Brown said the U. S. Bureau
of Commercial Fisheries figures
show greatest gains during the
first half of 1965 have occur
red in flounder, shrimp, scal
lops, and blue crab landings.
Gains in value were: flounder,
$274,000; shrimp, $245,000;
scallops, $238,000; and blue
crabs, $183,000.
He said the increase in scal
lop landings is due primarily
to Calico scallops taken from
the ocean and which have not
been landed on the State’s coast
in commercial quantities since'
1961. Bay scallop landings were
about the same as last year, ac
counting for only $1,400 increase
in value.
Porgy, shad, swordfish, and
herring landings accounted for
gains in value ranging from
$100,000 for porgy, $62,880 for
swordfish, and $56,000 for her
ring. Brown said the only signifi
cant decrease in catch and value
was recorded in menhaden land
ings—down 14,892,500 pounds
and $158,400 from the same peri
od in 1964.
Although the poundage of blue
crabs decreased from 12,181,720
pounds taken from the first
six months of 1964 to 10,842,630
for the same period in 1965, or
11 per cent, a 29 per cent in
crease in dockside value was
reported.
Dockside value of finfish and
shellfish taken in 1964 was
$7,486,000, in 1963 it was $6,
754.000, in 1962 it was $6,
755.000, and in 1961 it was $6,
669.000, the report showed.
Brown said if the current trend
holds, 1965 may well become the
most valuable year on record
for commercial fishing in North
Carolina.
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MISS LOIS GENE GORE
Southport Girl
To Morocco
Miss Lois Gene Gore, a na
tive of Southport, the daughter
of Eugene W. Gore of that city,
has been assigned by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture as
Secretary to the Attache at the
American Embassy in Rabat,
Morocco.
The selection was on a com
petitive basis and on the ability
to use the French language, which
is the common language spoken
by the citizens of Morocco.
Miss Gore graduated as an
honor student from the Bruns
wick County High School, and
as an honor graduate of Meck
lenburg College, Charlotte, with
a degree in Business Educa
tion. She has taken addition spe
cial courses at Catholic Univer
sity, American University, and
Howard University, all of Wash
ington, D. C.
Before accepting her current
employment with the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, Miss
Gore served on the administra
tive staff of Northwest Junior
High School and West Charlotte
Senior High School in Charlotte.
She left the states for her
tenure of foreign duty August
22. Miss Gore is the first of
her race to be assigned such a
position from the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Honor Teachers. ,
The Southport Woman’s Club
will honor the*teachers of South
port High School at a reception
on Thursday, September 9 in the
Community Building at 8 o’clock
following their regular Septem
ber meeting. Husbands of mem
bers axe also invited to attend.
New Warning
System Will
Help Firemen
Southern Bell Is making plans
to install a Group Fire Alerting
System for the Long Beach Volun
teer Fire Department.
For quite some time the Bell
System has been experimenting
with fire and police alarm sys
tems for protection in small
towns and fringe areas where
the only fire protection is by
voluntary groups.
The system for Long Beach
is one of the latest developments
and should prove to be a valu
able asset to the town. When a
fire occurs, the homeowner or
business simply dials an emer
gency number and then this new
system takes over, in the case of
Long Beach, there are ten tele
phones in various locations that
will automatically ring, even if
the volunteer firemen’s tele
phone is busy. All ten locations
can hear the calling party and
talk if necessary, and after the
calling party hangs up, they can
still talk to each other for in
structions or whatever. As each
station in the group hangs up,
his telephone automatically re
verts back to its regular status.
It will be several months be
fore the system is put into op
eration since the equipment will
have to be ordered, manufac
tured, and installed in the Long
Beach Central Office.
Larger Fields
More Economic
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By D. JEFFREY BRENDLE . r
Soil Conservation Service **
When the Caw Caw Swamp
canal is dug providing a better
outlet for land drainage, miles
of open ditches will be replaced
with tile drains. Landowners feel
that they must have larger fields
with their larger modern aquiB
-Mtlent and the increased cost m
labor makes cleaning out open
ditches and shrubbing of banks
a very costly operation.
As S.C.S. technicians have as
sisted land owners in the Caw
Caw area and throughout Bruns
wick County as well, one prob
lem is particularly^ outstanding.
Though tile does an excellent
job of subsurface drainage, on
many soils there still remains
a definite problem with surface
water. Many times this wat^r
is trapped in surface pockets and
does severe crop damage before
it soaks through to the tile.
This problem does not how
ever, usually put a block in the
plans for larger fields and less
open ditches. It simply means
that thorough planning of the
whole drainage system is ab
solutely essential with provisions
made for the safe disposal of
surface water. It means that all
the information possible about the
soils, crops, water content, etc.
must be collected and used. Much
of this information is available
in the Soil and Water Conserva
tion Farm Plans which many
farmers have drawn up with
S.C.S, These plans are of tre
mendous value as a tool in ap
plying good drainage.
There are several ways in
which the surface water problem
might be corrected. For example,
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Award Trophies At Sunny Point
HONORED—Two members of the Security Division, .Military OceaJn Termin
al, Sunny Point were recently awarded trophies for outstanding achievements
They are, left to right, Robert N. Clevenger, chief, Security Division, William L
Evans, who was selected as the “Policeman of the Year”, Lt. Colonel Archie B.
Joyner, Jr., the Sunny Point commander, and Harold T. Spencer, who qualifi.d
highest during the division’s annual range firing.
Important Election
ASC Ballotts In Mail
Tobacco Prices
Continue High
roDacco farmers this year
have received $5.4 million more
from sales In Columbus County
than during the comparable
period last season.
.. In addition, a study of the
Agricultural Marketing Serv
ice reports indicate that a total
of 3.7 million more pounds have
been sold on the markets in
Whiteville, Chadbourn, Fair
Bluff and Tabor City.
The Whiteville market alone
has handle 17,043,358 pounds
this season, compared to the
14, 824,795 pounds sold during
the first 17 marketing days in
1964.
The Tabor City market has
produced the highest 1965 season
average on the N. C.-S. C. Bor
der Belt—$67.27.
Throughout the four county
markets, the daily averages last
week consistently exceeded $65
per hundred.
The Whiteville market con
tinues to show the most improve
ment—average-wise—of the four
markets in Columbus County. Its
season average through Friday
stood at $67.27, and increase of
$10.94 over the first 17 days’
average in 1964. Other markets
in the county show the following
increases in average over last
year — Chadbourn $8.01; Fair
Bluff $10; and Tabor City $10.90.
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
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CADET JOHN H. SMITH
Southport Man
Honor Cadet
John A. Smith, a local youth,
recently spent twenty-eight days
at Maxwell Air Force Base in
Alabama. During that time, he
participated in Summer Field
Training, a mandatory program
for all third year college stu
dents who are enrolled in ad
vanced Air Force R.O.T.C.
At the awards ceremony,
Cadet Smith was designated as
"top ranking cadet in his flight”.
Thus flight consisted of 25 cadets
from several colleges and uni
versities from throughout the
United States. He was one of
five cadets who tied for second
place in the overall group, which
included 150 cadets.
John is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
John O. Smith of Southport. He
is married to the former Miss
Eva M. Bryant and they are the
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Labor Day Is
County Holiday
Most of the business activity in
Brunswick, except that wliich is
geared to the entertainment of
tourists and vacation visitors
will come to a pause Monday in
observance of Labor Day.
Among the activities which will
be idle on that day are all coun
ty offices, including Recorder's
court; the schools, which will
resume work the following day
the city offices and employees;
many of the business Arms, in
cluding all financial institutions;
and federal agencies.
The board of commissioners
and the board of education will
postpone their regular meeting
for one day, with sessions slat
ed on Tuesday.
ASC Committee election plans
for Brunswick county are now
complete. The county and com
munity committees have met and
completed a slate of nominees
for each community, and ballots
have been mailed to each eligible
voter on record.
These ballots must be returned
to the ASCS office in Shallotte
or postmarked by not later than
September 10, Any eligible voter
who does not receive a ballot
should call or visit the ASCS
office prior to that date.
Ballots will be publicly tabu
lated at the ASCS office in Shal
lotte on September 15 beginning
at 8:30 a. m. This will be done
by the County ASC Committee who
is also responsible for settling
questions on election procedure
or eligibility to vote or hold
office. Such determinations may
be appealed to the State Com
mittee. Persons having questions
may contact the county office
manager or see the secretary’s
regulations at the county office.
The nominee receiving the
highest number of votes will be
elected chairman of his com
munity committee, the three
nominees receiving the most
votes will also be delegates to
the county convention. Nominees
receiving the fourth and fifth most
votes will also be first and second
alternate delegates. Tie votes
will be settled by lot if agreed to
by the nominees.
A ballot will not be counted if
the certification is not signed
or the mark witnessed. Voters
should not put more than one bal
lot in an envelope and husband
and wife must mall separately.
The final list of nominees by
communities:
LOCKWOOD FOLLY - Del mas
Green, W. McKinley Hewett, Neil
Holden, Aldreth Phelps, Edwin
C. Sellers, Prelow Wilson.
SHALLOTTE - Arthur W. Bel
lamy, Luther Frink, John Howard
Gore, Curtis O. Hewett, Guy
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Driver Classes
Being Formed
Registration for the fall course
in Driver Education is now in
progress at all high schools in
Brunswick county. Classes are
slated to begin as soon as regis
tration is completed.
The instructors will be Joe
Young and George Frink, both
of whom are experienced in this
field.
Those eligible to register at
the present time are all students
of the 10th grade, students who
are 16 years old in other grades
and who have not had the course,
and any out-of-school youths be
tween the ages of 16-18.
The last session of the North
Carolina General Assembly made
it mandatory that all persons
under 18 years of age complete a
course in Driver Education be
fore receiving their license. It
will be necessary for out-of
school persons in Brunswick
county to arrange to attend reg
ularly scheduled classes at one
of the high^chools.
It is hoped that most of the ses
sions can be arranged during
school hours, but it may be nec
essary to schedule after-school
classes.
Open Bids On
Sewer System ;
For Southport
Members of the Board of Al
dermen for the city of South
port are holding a call meeting
today (Wednesday) at 2 o'clock
to review bids for the construc
tion of a sewage treatment plant,
pumping stations and mains fora
new sewage system for which
bids were opened yesterday.
Town Manager C. D. Pick
erell said bids opened Tuesday
are to be reviewed by officials
of the town, and two state agen
cies by that time and the low
bidder decided.
Apparent low bid on the sew
age treatment plant was sub
mitted by the Consolidated Con
struction Co. of Fayetteville. It
was $121,500.
Other bids included:
Eastern Construction Co. of
Greenville, $136,426; Republic
Construction Co. of Columbia,
S.C., $180,000; Brown Construc
tion Co. of Raleigh, $148,236,
Crain-Denbo Construction Co. of
Charlotte, $135,000 and Potts
Brown Construction Co. of Char
lotte, $134,600.
Lowest bid on the pumping
stations and forced mains came
from Eastern Construction Co.
The pumping stations bid was
$32,483 and the forced mains
bid was $23,512.50.
Officials also called for bids
on paving and fencing around
tbe new sewage treatment plant.
Low bidders on these projects
were Republic Construction Co.
at $2,000 on the pavement and
$1,700 on the fencing.
Bids on eight inch sewer lines
came from six firms with East
ern Construction Co. low again
at $3,439.25. L. W. Floyd Elec
trical Co. of Lumberton sub
mitted the lowest estimate on
electrical work in connection
with the project. It was $8,629.
Good Fanning
Going On Now ; f§
By ARCHIE F. MARTIN ;' %
County Extension Chairman V>,
For the tobacco grower, the
most important job right now is
cutting stalks and plowing out to
bacco roots. Your time will be
much better spent with this sim
ple practice than assisting with
grading and tying of this year's
crop, we have had a late growing
season this year and this makes
it even more important not to
delay destruction of crop resi
dues another day. I have noticed
many fields this week that have
just been completed with harvest
but of these fields more have
the stalks standing than do the
ones that are cut.
The program to Reduce Six
Pests of Tobacco by early de
struction of tobacco residues will
be most effective if all farmers
in the county participate. The
pests you can expect to reduce
by early destruction of residues
are Nematodes, Mosaic, Brown
Spot, Horn worms, Bud worms and
Flea Beetles. This practice could
result in a saving of several
hundred thousand dollars to
Brunswick County farmers so
we cannot afford to delay it.
LIVESTOCK producers are re
minded that there are many sales
being held in the State in the next
few weeks. These sales include
dairy cattle, beef cattle and
swine. If you are planning to buy
some replacements, now might be
a good time to locate some good
animals. Also, if you have feed
er calves that you wish to sell
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Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during' the
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Fort
Pilot through the courtesy
of the Cape Fear Pilot’s As
sociation.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, September 2,
0:35 A. M. 0:56 A. M.
1:21 P. M. 7:43 P. M.
Friday, September S,
1:27 A. M. 7:50 A. M.
2:28 P. M. 8:42 P. M.
Saturday, September 4,
2:23 A. M. 8:47 A. M.
3:12 P. M. 9:40 P. M.
Sunday, September 5,
3:20 A. M. 9:43 A. M.
4:05 P. M. 10:34 P. M.
Monday, September 6,
4:15 A. M. 10:36 A. M.
4:50 P. M. 11:23 P. M.
Tuesday, September 7,
5:05 A. M. 11:27 A. M.
5:41 P. M. 12:08 P. M.
Wednesday, September 8,
5:51 A. M. 12:12 A. M.
0:25 P M.