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THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Volume 25
No. 16
T 2-Pages Today
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
SOUTHPORT, N. C- WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1965 5$ A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
IN DRY DOCK IN NORFOLK
REPAIRS—This is the Sea Level, ferry boat that is
scheduled for service across the Cape Fear river from
Southport to Fort Fisher startiing- October 15. The
boat as still in dry dock in Norfolk and the ferry
slips sfcill are under construction. It appears likely
there will be a delay.
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To Build Consolidated Schools
$1,351,000 Bonds.
Members of the Brunswick
County Board of Education voted
Tuesday night to seek authority
to ask the voters of Brunswick
county to approve a $1,531,000
bond issue on November 2 for
construction of two consolidated
high schools.
The plan would be to hold the
election at the same time voters
ballot on the road bond issue.
Since the election is now little
more than 30 days away, there Is
so me question whether this can be
done, but one member of the board
called attention to the fact that
the law only requires a 30-day
notice.
Brunswick already has $500,
000 in construction money from a
state school bond program for use
in long-range construction. Ap
proval of the local bond issue
would provide funds for con
struction of two high school build
ings, which would be centrally lo
cated.
No action was taken in the elec
tion of a superintendent of schools
to replace A. W. Taylor, who
has resigned effective October 1.
William N. Williams was named
acting superintendent.
Three applicants for the va
cancy were interviewed. These
were John Tandy, Winston
Salem, Fred McClure, Elizabeth
town, and B. D. Bunn, white
ville. Two other applicants, Wil
lard Cox of Goldsboro and Ben
Brock of Enfield, will be inter
viewed at the regular meeting
of the board of education next
Tuesday night.
Mrs. Billy Rose was approved
as a member of the elementary
school faculty at Southport.
Brief Bits Of
1-NEWS
POWER INTERRUPTION
Power will be cut off in South
port Sunday morning from 5:30 to
7:30 o'clock while Carolina
Power & Light Co. makes repairs
to the sub-station at Eagle Island.
OYSTER ROAST
A benefit oyster roast will
be held at Longs Garage on U. S.
17 on Saturday, October 9, from
5 to 9 o’clock. Proceeds will go
to the building fund.
FLOOR SHOW
Jumping Gene Simmons will be
the floor show attraction at Ebb
Tide Restaurant Saturday night.
Owner J. w. Robinson says Sim
mons is the biggest name star
he has been able to bring to his
restaurant thus far.
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Freeland Man Is
Found Not Guilty
Llndburg King of Freeland was
acquitted Thursday by a Bruns
wick county jury drawn from a
special venire of 75 persons on
charges of rape on which he
was tried here in Superior
Court that day. He had been
indicted as a capital offender.
Judge J. Hamilton Hobgood
presided and court adjourned at
the conclusion of this trial.
The state called five witnesses
to the stand and the defense
elected to offer no evidence.
The first to testify was Brenda
Milliken, the plaintiff, who told
the jury that she had come to
Southport with Mr. and Mrs.
King to see one of their chil
dren, who was ill in the hospital.
She said that when they readied
the hospital early in the eve
ning Mrs. King was advised that
she should remain overnight with
her child. The Milliken girl told
the jury that she told Mrs. King
she did not want to ride home
alone with Mr. King, but that
Mrs. King assured her she
thought it would be all right.
The girl testified that on the
way home King took a different
route than the one followed on
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Brunswick Boy
At State Fair
District winners In the 4-H
tractor driving contests are once
again getting set to defend their
titles at North Carolina State
Fair this year when it opens
for its annual run October 11-16.
Steve Szczerbiak, Castle
Hayne; Harvey Bell, Bolivia; and
Charles Hayes, Lumber Bridge
were first, second and third place
•winners in the Southeastern Dis
trict contest. They are looking
forward to competing with the
winners from each of the state’s
five other 4-H districts, with an
eye on the championship.
The big contest has been set
for Friday, October 15, at 10
a. m. in the State Fair Arena.
Winners will receive cash prizes
and trophies. Total prize money
is $150.
The standard obstacle course
will be used, according to J. C.
Ferguson, contest director, but
will be limited to 2-wheel driving
events only. Entrants will be
required to wear standard 4-H
uniforms. Helmets and “Tractor
Contest” T-shirts will be
furnished by State Fair.
that enroute to Freeland he turn
ed off the highway and forced
her to submit to him.
She said that when he let her
out In front of her home she
ran In and immediately told
her mother what had happened,
and that later in the evening
her parents took out papers for
King, then carried her to the
hospital in Whlteville for a physi
cal examination.
Her mother’s testimony coor
boraied that given by her daugh
ter.
Other witnesses called were
Sheriff E. V. Leonard, who
told of action taken in making the
arrest, Patrolman Billy Day and
Mrs. Roberta Simmons, secre
tary at Waccamaw High School.
The defense chose not to of
fer testimony but lawyers attack
ed the credibility of evidence of
fered by the State.
Members of the jury were Wil
lie R. Caison, James C. Miller,
G. W, Fisher, M. C. Stanley,
Harry S. Pope, GrederickT. Sim
mons, Thomas A. Dixie, J. O.
Edge, E. W. Morgan, E. L. Hil
burn, Homer Sherrill, J. H. Fern
side and W. A. Stanley, Jr.
Taylor Holds
NCEA Office
Educators from ten counties
will take a look at the changing
educational programs in North
Carolina when they meet In Fay
etteville on Tuesday, October 12,
for the 43rd annual convention of
the Southeastern District of the
North Carolina Education Asso
ciation.
District officers are Everett
Gobble, president, who will pre
side over the session; A. Wood
row Taylor, vice-president; Mrs.
Donna McCormick, secretary;
and E. C. Sipe, district director.
The Southeastern’s day-long
meeting will attract 2,000 edu
cators from Bladen, Brunswick,
Columbus, Cumberland, Hoke,
New Hanover, Pender, Robeson,
Sampson and Scotland counties.
J. Everette Miller, assistant
state superintendent of public
instruction, will present a sur
vey of the innovations andgrowth
to meet the increasing needs in
North Carolina ait the morning
General Session. /
A change from past years will
be the increased emphasis on the
departmental meetings. Follow
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Name Chairman
For Bond Vote
For Brunswick
James M. Harper, Jr., editor
of The State Port Pilot, has
been asked to serve as chairman
of the Road Bond election cam
paign in Brunswick county and
will go to Raleigh Wednesday
to attend a planning meeting
with Governor Dan K. Moore
and highway officials.
R. P. Holden, Jr., is state
chairman.
By a vote of 168 to two, the 1965
General Assembly authorized a
Statewide referendum on a $300
million bond issue to upgrade
and expand North Carolina’s sys
tem of primary, urban and secon
dary roads. The referendum will
be held on November 2.
No additional taxes will be re
quired to finance the bonds. The
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North Carolina Open
Oak Island Host To Tournament
final preparations are oeing
made here this week for the firsi
annual North Carolina Open Gol
Tournament, scheduled to gel
underway Wednesday at Oak Is
land Golf Club.
One Important milestone was
passed this week when the spon
sor’s share of the purse, $2,000,
was over-subscribed by loci
sponsors of the tournament. Thr
campaign for financial suppori
was conducted by the activities
committee of the club, Mrs. Am
Donnett chairman.
More than fifty entries have
come In thus far, and there are
prospects of the list swelling
to over 100 professionals anc
leading amateurs. Entry fees
will be added to the prize money,
Indicating that upwards of $4,000
will go to the professionals whc
finish high in the list. Prizes
of merchandise will be awarded
winning amateurs.
Rye B. Page, publisher of the
Wilmington Star-News, has ac
cepted an invitation to be on hand
to award prizes next Friday
afternoon at the conclusion oi
the 54-hole tournament.
Some of the leading North
Carolina golfers already have
entered, including Bill Harvey,
State Amateur Champion, from
Greensboro. Another Greens
boro golfer hearting this way will
be Larry Dempsey, a regular
winner in city tournaments there.
A cocktail party honoring visit
ing players and their wives will
be held on Thursday evening in
the club house. There will be
other special events arranged for
the entertainment of wives of
players.
There will be no charge for
Girl Scouts To
Meet On Friday
Mothers and daughters in
terested in the Junior and Cadette
Girl Scout Troops sponsored by
Trinity Methodist Church, are
requested to meet at the church
Fellowship Hall on Friday at
4 p. m.
Purpose of the meeting is to
find adequate adult leadership
for these two groups. Adults
are needed not only as troop
leaders but to serve on various
committees: Troop, Cookie Sale,
Telephone, Transportation and
Program.
Mrs. Robert L. Jones, Neigh
borhood Scout Chairman, says
that to date only the Brownie
Troop has the required number
of adults to carry on the pro
gram. junior Scouts, grades
4-5-6 and Cadette Scouts, grades
7-8-9 are interested and
enthusiastic about their scouting
and anxious to continue if leaders
can be secured. Training will
be provided for any person willing
to assist.
Rev. W. C. Davenport, pastor
of Trinity Methodist Church, says
that he is hopeful the Girl Scout
programs can all be continued.
The Fellowship Hall of the church
has been used for troop meetings
since the Inception of the scout
ing program. The Mary Rebekah
Circle, WSCS, is the orginial
sponsor of the Girl Scouts in
Southport.
Time And Tide
There was much talk of the Jenrette murder case, and a front
page picture in our issue of September 25, 1935, showed the scene
and some of the men who helped capture the defendant. Judge Claw
son Williams was the Judge designated to preside over the forth
coming trial. A survivor from the shipwrecked Dixie had written a
local civic club official to say that “it was almost worth being
shipwrecked to have had the opportunity to come to your community
and to meet the hospitable people there.”
Mrs. Annie K. Vitou had been hostess to the “F.F.” club at a
crab supper during the previous week; the editor thought that
school bus drivers should be required to take a driving test; and
there was a front page feature of Uncle Jim Lewis, the faithful
janitor at the Southport post office for more than a quarter century.
A front page feature in The Pilot for September 25, 1940, re
counted the beginning of the merchandising career of one Harry
Robinson. It was the story about the big pile of matches he sal
vaged when the J. Allen Taylor Wholesale warehouses in Wil
mington burned. Gene O’Brien still was flying homing pigeons, and
this time a couple of his birds were shown being released in White
ville by the Tobacco Sales Supervisor, who sent the latest word of
the high prices being paid on that market that day. W. F. Ward,
who had been given up as drowned in an accident off Calabash sev
eral weeks before, had been found well and walking in a Georgia
town.
work of dredging the Southport yacht basin had been completed;
a headline brought word to the married men that they were not
exempt from the draft; and plans were being made for a local
tennis tournament.
It was September 26, 1945, and a large number of marsh hen
hunters had been disappointed with their season’s first efforts
when the tide failed up to expectations. Relatives here had been
advised that Harold Aldridge and Jack Hickman soon would be
returning from service. Tom Morgan, who had been stationed
at Soutnport for three years, had been discharged ana had re
turned to his home in Wisconsin.
Sandy Simmons and his son, Clarence Simmons, were lead
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admission, and a large gallery
of golfing fans is expected to
attend this three-day event.
There is a feeling that some of
the last minute entries may in
s elude some of the big-name
tournament pros from North
Carolina, since next week Is not
a busv time on the tour.
Following is an Incomplete listst
of Individuals and business firms
who have helped raise the spon
sors share of the purse:
Those contributing $100 or
more toward expenses were
Oak Island Development Corpor
ation, Carr Insurance Agency,
Southport; Lincoln Construction
Company, Wilmington; National
Development Corporation, Lin
coln Construction Company, Wil
mington; National Development
Corporation, Long Beach; Oak
Island Ladies Golf Association.
Those who contributed $50
or more toward defeating ex
penses were Murphy’s Ocean
Front Motel, Palmetto Motel,
Tradewinds Restaurant, Yaupon
Pier, Yaupon Motel, A. H. Gainey,
Jr., Coastal Motel, Yaupon
Beach; Fox Holsum Bakery,
Whitebrook Farms, Jewell
Strickland Auto Parts Company,
Wilmington Iron Works, Inc.,
Wilmington; Long Beach Pier
Motel, Long Beach; State Port
Pilot, Blake Builders Supply,
Wilmington Cape Fear Pilots
Assn., Security Savings & Loan,
Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co.,
Southport; R. D. White & Sons
Oil Company, Shallotte.
Those who contributed $25 or
more to the expense fund were
Gay’s Gift Shoppe, Hallman’s
Store, King’s Shopping Center,
Dixon’s Reel Shop, Adams A
Burger, Newman’s Dress Shop,
Jack Alien-Contractor, Yaupon
Amusements, Warth's Esso
Service Center, Yaupon Beach;
Ocean Crest Motel, Farrell’s
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PRESENT FOR SUPERINTENDENT
GIFT—A. Woodrow Taylor, seated, was honored Tuesday when five Brunswick
county school principals presented him with a new shotgun as a going-away pre
sent from school personnel in Brunswick county with whom he has been associate
©d for the past two years. Supt. Taylor has resigned as superintendent of
wick county schools to accept a similar post as head of the city school spstem in *
Hamlet. Standing, left to right, Thomas Davis, Rockfeller Venters, Ed,win Cur-'
ne, A. C. Caviness, L. R. Biggemtaff:—(CFN Photo)
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Telephone Co-op
Meeting Thursday
Ashley Murphy, third division
highway commissioner, will be
the principal speaker at the an
nual meeting of the Atlantic Tel
ephone Membership Corporation
tomorrow (Thursday) evening in
the Shallotte High School audi
torium.
The meeting will feature a re
port of progress made during
the past 12-months period by the
corporation. "Our construction
and expansion program, initiated
more than two years ago, is now
more than 90% complete," Presi
dent Harry L. Mintz, Jr. said.
"In fact present indications are
that we will begin another, some
what limited construction pro
gram, within the next year. Re
quests for graded service inout
side base rate area has far ex
ceeded our expectations."
Murphy is presently serving as
3rd Division Highway Commis
sioner, a post he has held since
appointment by Governor Dan K.
Moore, July 1. Prior to receiv
ing the highway commissioner
appointment, Murphy served con
tinuously as a Representative in
the General Assembly represent
ing Pender County, from the 1953
through the 1965 sessions. He
maintains his home in Atkinson, .
where he is engaged in farming (
and the insurance business. ,
Election of directors from Dls- j
trict 1, the Ash, Waccamaw, j
Freeland, Exum area, and Dis- A
trict 6, the Bolivia area, will
precede adjournment. t
Entertainment will be pro- ]
vlded by Hayseed and his Country t
Cousins. <
National 4-H *
Week Observed 5
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By QUIDA HEWETT t
ADULT LEADER s
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National 4-H Week will be t
observed from Sept. 26-Oct. 3. c
This is one observance every s
American, whether he lives in *
a city or in the country should a
welcome, 4-H Clubs are, among t
many other things, not only train- d
ing grounds for the farm people 0
of tomorrow but have many mem- s
bers right here in Suburbia. They o
Instill a healthy competitive
spirit in the boys and girls who fl
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ASHLEY MURPHY
Burning Permit
Law In Force
County Ranger Kenneth John
on this week reminded citizens
if Brunswick County that begin
ilng October 1 it will again be
lecessary to obtain a burning
ermit before doing any burning
rfthln 500 feet of any woodland.
The State Law relating to the
urning of brush reads as fol
ows: “Starting fires within 500
eet of areas under protection of
tate Forest Service - It shall
e unlawful for any person, firm
r corporation to start or cause
o be started any fire or Ignite
ny material In any of the areas
f woodland under the protection
f the State Forest Service or
rtthin 500 feet of any such pro
acted area during the hours
tartlng at midnight and ending
t 4:00 p. m. without first ob
ilning from the State Forester
r one of his duly authorized
gents a permit to start or cause
} be started any fire or Ignite
ny material In such above men
oned places between the first
ay of October and the first day
f June, inclusive. No charge
hall be made for the granting
f said permits.
During periods of hazardous
•rest fire conditions, the State
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Slogan Contest
For Brunswick
Now Underway
A slogan for Brunswick county
is worth $100 according to W. A.
Powell, chairman of the Re
sources Development Commis
sion.
Powell stated that the com
mission is offering a$100 Savings
Bond to the Individual who can
phrase a slogan to be used In the
promotional efforts of Brunswick
county.
“In addition we will award a
$50 Savings Bond to the second
place winner and a $25 savings
Bond to the third place winner,”
Powell said. “In case of a tie
the prizes will be equally
divided.”
All entries must be submitted
on post cards and be post marked
not later than October 30.
Members of the Resources De
velopment Commission, staff or
their immediate families are not
eligible to enter the contest.
Powell In citing examples
of slogans, that are now being
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Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These hoijtrs are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Port
Pilot through the courtesy
of the Cape Fear Pilot’s As
sociation.
WOH LOW
Thursday, September SO,
11:48 A. M 5:26 A. M.
6:11 P. M.
FWday, October 1,
6il3 A. M.
12:39 P. M. 7:00 P. M.
Saturday, October 2,
12:50 A. M. 7:08 A. M.
1:33 P. M. i 8.03 P. M
Sunday, October 3,
1:46 A. M. 8:07 A. M.
2:29 P. M. 9:02 P. M.
Monday, October 4,
2.44 A. M. 9:07 A. M.
3:24 P. M. 9:5£- P. M.
Tuesday, Octobei- 5,
3:40 A. M. U|f03 A. M.
4:16 P. M. MO.46 P. M.
Wednee Zf, October 6,
4:31 A. M j P' |i0:56 A. M.
5:03 P. /11:32 P. M.
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