THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume 25 No. 19 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1965 5f AGOPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Award At State Fair AWARD AT FAIR—Brunswick county 4-H’ers are a mighty happy group with the $225 meritorious award given their exhibit at North Carolina State Fair this year. Their beach erosion control exhibit was one of 18 chosen to show in com petition at the Fair. Complete with sound effects, it was one of the hits of-the show. r TB Testing In Brunswick On New Program Brunswick County Health De partment this week received sup plies for a tuberculin testing program In the schools through out the county. The Health Department plans to test first and ninth graders as is advised by the U. S. Pub lic Health Service. Purpose of the test is to find those chil dren who have been in contact with an active case of tuber culosis and who have been in fected with the tuberculosis ger m. ~ ^ ■ Particularly in the first grades, a child’s environment has been limited to family and close neighborhood friends, so that a positive reaction to the tuberculin test leads to finding the person with active tuber culosis among that limited number of persons. Any child with a positive re action to the test will be given further tests and a chest x-ray and all immediate family and close friends calUed in for x-ray and testing. The test to be used in the schools is called the “TINE” test and consists of a small unit, one to each child, which is com pletely harmless and does not hurt. It is useful in a screening program, since it can be given in the classroom, requiring no more than 15 minutes per class and disrupting the class sched ule very little. In addition to the test itself, the SENC Association has finish ed a leaflet and letter for each child to take home to his parents explaining the purposes and rou tine of the test and a handbook and letter to each teacher and principal involved in the testing. The Board of Education in Brunswick County considers the tests of enough importance that they have asked that the home economics students be included, with the Board paying for those tests. Separately, the counties in southeastern North Carolina would find the TINE test too expensive to be used. Together (Continued On Page Four) tans Brief Bits Of HVEWS BACKING BOND VOTE Members of the Brunswick Board of Realtors have gone on record favoring the Road Bond Issue on which a general election will be held November 2. BENEFIT OYSTER ROAST The Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church will sponsor an Oyster Roast Saturday, at the Ennis Long Garage on US 17 (in front of Wil son Arnold's Home) from the hours of 5 - 9 p. m. Home made cakes and pies will also be on sale. All proceeds will go to the new church building fund. The public is invited. CHARTER NIGHT Charter Night for the newly organized Supply Lions Club will be held tomorrow (Thursday) night at the Ebb Tide Restaurant at Holden Beach. The Southport Lions Club has cancelled its regular meeting in order to meet with the new club. The District governor will attend. Mrs. James Bellamy Southport Woman District Director Mrs. Bobby Jones, president of the Southport Junior Woman’s Club, was elected Monday as Jun ior Director of District Eleven at it’s meeting at St. Paul’s church in Carolina Beach. New District President will be Mrs. E. P. Blanchard of Rose Hill. These and other officers elected on Monday will assume their duties at the time of the state convention next May. Mrs. Jones will replace Mrs. W. P. Reynolds of Clinton and will have four clubs under her guidance. The Southport Woman’s Club, through its president, Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., invited the district to hold its 1966 fall meeting in Southport and the invitation was accepted. During the business session the two Southport presidents gave reports on the best project dur ing the past year of the two clubs. Mrs. Jones reported on the Art Festival sponsored by the Juniors and Mrs. Harper re ported the Heritage Show as the best project of the Southport Woman’s Club. Others who attended the meet ing were Mrs. W. S. Norman, Mrs. L. D. Hayman, and Mrs. E. c. Blake of the Woman’s Club and Mrs. A. H. Gainey, Jr., of the Juniors. Club women representing four teen clubs in a five-county area of eastern North Carolina heard Mrs. Fred B. Bunch, Jr. of Statesville, president of the N C Federation of Women’s Clubs) challenge them to greater involvement in the affairs of today’s changing world. "What Do We Have to Offer?” MRS. BOBBY JONESf was the theme of Mrs. Bunch’s address. Presiding was Mrs. George L. Sutton of Mt. Olive, district president. Mayor Henry Saunders of Carolina Beach welcomed the visitors. Extending greetings from the host club was Mrs. William Benway. Mrs. Haywood Faircloth of Clinton responded. Other district clubwomen par ticipating during the assembly program prior to luncheon were Mesdames W. F. Adcock, J. W. Allen, W. T. Perkins, E. P. Blanchard, J. D. Jordan and W. H. Sloan. Mrs. Donna Leggett, a member of the faculty of Murdock School near Durham, and Junior editor of the "North Carolina Club (Continued On Page Four) Board Gives Approval For Action Plans I The Brunswick County Com missioners were given a brief ing on Monday, by Brig. Gen. James Glore, vice-chairman of the Brunswick County Com munity Action. The Brunswick county organi zation was not accepted by the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington for the policy rea son that the population was too small to operate at an efficient administrative expense ratio. Effort was then directed toward organizing a tri-county group to Improve the condition and SENC LAND COMMUNITY ACTION came into being which includes the counties of Bladen, Bruns wick and Columbus. Consider able effort has been expended upon the new organization and it is now at the stage of electing officers; completing the pro ject application for Program De velopment Funds and adoption of articles of incorporation and by-laws. All these are suf ficiently progressed to believe that the completed effort can be taken to the OEO in Washington by approximately November 10. As a result of the briefing the board of commissioners unanimously declared their sup port of the project and approved the proposal which was to be sub mitted to OEO. Project Gets Good Report Lt. Colonel Beverly C. Snow, Jr., District Engineer, Wilming ton Army Engineer District, an nounced this week that as a re sult of a recently completed sur vey by his office he had rec ommended to higher authority a modification of the Atlantic Intra-coastal Waterway existing project to provide for Federal maintenance of the access chan nels to the State-provided Small Boat Harbor at Southport. Major General George H, Walker, South Atlantic Division Engineer has concurred in Colonel Snow’s rec ommendation. In accordance with the law the report is being re ferred for review to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Har bors in Washington, D. C. The survey was authorized by a resolution adopted 16 July, 1958, by the Committee on Pifolic Works of the United States House of Representatives, con cerning which a public hearing was held at Southport on March 30, 1962. In the investigation for the survey report the reporting officers found that additional har bor area and a small-boat har bor were needed. However, while the investigation was in progress the State of North Carolina, under authority provided to the North Carolina State Ports Authority, constructed a small-boat harbor at Southport which provides for existing and reasonable pro spective watercraft navigation in this coastal area. Federal main tenance of the access channels to the small boat harbor project could be justified economically by benefits estimated to be about $15,500 annually. The benefit to cost ratio would be 7.7 to 1.0. The general navigation project of the State-provided small-boat harbor would include an entrance channel, 150 feet wide and 400 feet long; an eastern harbor-ac cess channel, 70 feet wide and 430 feet long; a western harbor-ac cess channel, 60 feet wide and 185 (Continued On Page Four) Distinguished Visitors HONORED— Rear Admiral E. W. Sutherling was honored Friday when he was presented a key to the city from Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr. Looking on is Col. R. T. Looper. These men were here on a visit to Sunny Point Army Terminal. Mrs. Glore To Head District Teacher Group Mrs. James Glore, of the Southport High School faculty, was elected Southeastern District President of the Classroom Teachers Division of the North Carolina Education Association at their meeting in Fayetteville last week. The Southeastern Dis trict is coriipriaed of ten counties. Mrs. Glore has been a teach er in the Southport school for the past six years. She holds a BS degree from Indiana State Teachprs College and a MS de gree from Ohio University. She has done additional graduate work at the American University and Indiana State University. She has served as a Worker Analyst and a Personnel Officer with the U. S. government. Mrs. Glore is a member of several honorary or (Continued On Page Pour) Homecoming To Be Observed The New Hope Presbyterian Church of Winnabow, will hold its annual homecoming on Sun day. The schedule of services is as follows: Sunday School at 10 a. m.; Morning worship at 11a. m.; dinner on the grounds at 12:30 p. m,; service of song and fellowship at 2 p. m.; me morial service for deceased members and friends of the church at 2:30 p. m. The morning service will be conducted by the Rev. Robert R. Childs, Jr., and the sermon will be by the Rev. James B. Tubbs. The Rev. Thomas McKay, pastor of Zion Methodist Church of Town Creek, will preach the sermon for the memorial serv ice. The public is cordially invited. 1 Time And Tide There was a sports note on the front page of our edition for October 16, 1935; Frank Niernese, a Southport boy, had won the fall tennis tournament at High Point College for the second year In a row. He also was a varsity basketball player trader Coach Virgil Yow. A front page photo showed workmen atop the steeple of Southport Baptist Church, repairing damage caused by a recent bolt of lightning. Friendship Baptist Church in Waccamaw township was to be host later that week at the annual meeting of the Brunswick Bap tist Association; Belk’s in Wilmington (it was Belk-Williams back in those days) had men’s suits advertised for $18.94—and they were all wool; but on the editorial page the editor had a piece about “The High Cost of Living.” It was the fall of 1940, October 15 to be exact, and R. Gregg Cherry was coming here for a political speech in the courthouse. Col. Earl i. Brown has been named District Engineer for the Wilmington District, U. S. Army Engineers. Senator J. W. Bailey had been a visitor in Southport aboard the engineer’s yacht, Kitty Hawk. A service station man had lifted the hood of a car owned by a Snallotte citizen and had discovered a bird nest on top of the engine—“Guess This Motor Hummed Like A Bird,” quoth the headline. The congregation of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church were hosts to the Brunswick Baptist Association of that year. A headline on the front page of The Pilot for October 17, 1945, predicted that one post-war development at Long Beach would be (Continued On Page Four) ■ ■ ' >■ : v'' Williams Named To Head Schools ■r W. N. WILLIAMS Varied Program For Halloween There will be ghosts and gob lins at Southport's annual Hallo ween carnival on Friday, October 29 with the Southport Parent Teacher Association as sponsor. The carnival will be open from 2;30 to 3;15 for bus children, but the real festivities will start about dark. The carnival will be proceed ed by a fish supper in the school lunch room beginning at 5 o’clock. After the supper the kids will crown their King and Queen. The crowning and the costume parade to take place in the au ditorium at 7 o’clock. As soon as the parade is over the gym will open and booths this year will consist of the following: Cotton candy, candy apples, pop corn, junior class; grab bags, Mrs. Lennon; fish pond, Mrs. Iris Smith; cake walk, Mrs. Bowmer; Horror House, sophomores; dart games, Mrs. Hood; apple bobbing, Mrs. K. Lee; fortune teller, Mrs. M. Smith; white elephant sale, Mrs. Biggerstaff; candy and coke (Continued On Page Four) Sunny Point Draws Visitors Rear Admiral E. w. Sutherling, Deputy Commander, Military Traffic Management, and Terminal Service, this past week paid a visit to the Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point. Accompanying the Admiral was Colonel R. T. Looper, Director of Terminals, MTMTS. Upon his arrival in Wilming ton, the Admiral was met at the airport by Mayor O. O. Allsbrook and presented a Key to the City. During his visit to Sunny Point, the admiral also toured historic Southport and at that time re ceived another key, this time to the City of Southport, the key being in the form of a tie clasp. William N. Williams, assistant superintendent for the past two years, was named Monday to the post of superintendent of Bruns wick County Schools. Action by the Brunswick County Board of Education was by unanimous ac tion. Named to fill the vacancy as assistant superintendent was Ralph King, teacher of vocation*, al agriculture since 1956. Williams, who also served for two years as principal at Southport High School, is a na tive of Columbus county. Prior to coming to Brunswick he was principal for four years at Guide way School. He is a graduate of Wake Forest College where he majored in English. He received his masters degree from Uni versity of North Carolina with a major in Secondary Education and Public School Administra tion. He is married to the former Monnie Long of Columbus coun ty and they have two daughters. They lived in Southport for two years prior to moving into their home at Twin Lakes, near Sun set Beach. King is a graduate of N. C, State and also has his master degree. He is a native of Bruns wick county, the son of the late Elroy King, a former member of the board of county commis sioners. In other action by the board Monday they met with the county commissioners to discuss fi nancial problems. They also approved the sale of two automobiles formerly used in the driver education program and offered at public auction Monday. One went to Clifton Wil son for $1,630, the other to Percy R. Hewett for $1,725. At their last regular meet ing the board of education went on record favoring the Road Bond Issue. Two Southport Men Honored Two Brunswick county citizens have been honored by Governor Millard Tawes of Maryland ac cording to an announcement in the October issue of the North Carolina Industrial Newsletter. Governor Tawes has bestowed “Honorary Maryland Citizen ship” on Cash B. Caroon, owner and operator of C. B. Caroon Crab Co., and Roy A. Stevens, director of the Resources De velopment Commission for Brunswick county. Governor Tawes honored five citizens of North Carolina. These were in addition to Caroon and Stevens, Elmer Willis of Wlllis ton, James Paul Lewis of Davis and Wade Lucas of Raleigh. Governor Tawes honored the Tarheels for their interest and for helping to boast the hard crab Industry. Caroon, Stevens and Lucas met with Governor Tawes while representing North Carolina at the National Crab Derby InCris field, Maryland, on September 4. Willis and Davis represented North Carolina at the 1964 Derby. Brunswick Has CertificateOf Cattle Health Dr. H. J. Rollins, Veterinarian lor the North Carolina Depart ment of Agriculture visited the Agriculture Extension office at Supply last week to present to Brunswick county a certificate of recertification for Brunswick as a brucellosis-free area. Brunswick was one of 14 coun ties In 1960 to be certified as brucellosis - free and this year Is the first to be recertified. Brucellosis Is a serious dis ease of cattle and swine and is commonly known as Bands Dis ease, or contagious abortion. The disease is so serious because it can be transmitted to humans. The same bacteria causes undulant fever in humans and is most likely transmitted in milk. Brunswick livestock producers are to be commended for their part in the eradication of brucel losis in the county. They are also urged to help keep the dis ease out of the county in the future by purchasing animals that have been tested and found to be free from the disease. Bringing In Infected animals from other areas Is the most likely source of the disease. Growers are also encouraged to have the cows on their farms tested periodically. All that is necessary is to notify the County Extension Officer of the number of cows to be tested and it will notify the Federal Veterinarian who Is stationed in Elizabethtown. As soon as he has enough re quests to justify a trip to the county or Is in the area he will make the tests without charge. The number of tests made will count toward another certifica tion in the future if no brucel losis is found. — . Swine growers are reminded to be on the look-out for hog cholera. It is hoped that this disease can be eradicated some time ia the near future. Any one who knows of any outbreaks of cholera should notify the County Extension Office, which can get assistance from the Fed eral Veterinarian in controlling this disease. Methodists To Hold Roll Call Members of Trinity Methodist Church will observe Roll Call Sunday this week with a special emphasis upon having every liv ing member present for morning worship service. Letters have gone out to local members, as well as to those who have moved away, urging a full attendance for this special observance. This means that it also has the earmarks of a homecoming or church picnic, for dinner will be served on the grounds follow ing preaching services. The roll call ritual will be faithfully performed, since it is the feeling of church officials that at periodic intervals it is well for those in attendance to be reminded of the identity of the full membership. Already there has come word that former residents are mak ing plans to visit Southport during the coming weekend and to join in observance of this event. This will be the second such occasion for Trinity Methodist Church, the first having met with gratifying success. Instead of inviting a former pastor or former member to fill (Continued On Page Four) Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport during the week. These ho*jrs are ap proximately oort ct and were furnished. The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's As sociation. HIGH LOW Thursday, October 21, 4:53 A. M. 11:16 A. M. 5:16 P. M. 11:46 P. M. Friday, October 22, 5:48 A. M. 12:11 A. M. 6:09 P. M. Saturday, October 28, 6:40 A. M. 0:34 A. M. 6:58 P. M. 1:02 P. M. Sunday, October 24, 7:29 A. M. 1:19 A. M. 7:43 P. M. 1:49 P. M. Monday, October 25, 8:14 P. M. 2:01 A. M. 8:27 P. M. 2:36 P. M. Tuesday, October 26, 8:58 A. M. 2:44 A. M. 9:09 P. M. 3:21 P. M. Wednesday, October 27, 9:42 A. M. 3:25 A. M. 9:52 P. M. 4:06 P. M. i

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