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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Williams Named
To Head Schools
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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
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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
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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.
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