Volume 25 No. 23
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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SOUTHPORT, N. G WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1965
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Install Playground Equipment
JAYCEE PROJECT—Shown here installing new playground equipment in the
grove near the city hall in Southport are Bobby Jones, left and Bud Powell, right. The
local organization has purchased several hundred dollars worth of swings, rides and
facilities for improving the playground at Southport High School. (CFN Photo).
Warn Against
Solictors At
Work In County
Merchants should exercise in
contributing money to persons
who solicit funds for school
purposes, W. N. Williams, su
perintendent of Brunswick Coun
ty Schools, said this week.
If there is any question as to
whether the person is soliciting
for bonafide school purposes, the
merchant should request to see
a letter of authorization signed
by the principal or superintend
ent or should call school author
ities.
There has been at least one re
cent instance where a man mis
represented himself as having
been authorized to solicit money
for the athletic program of a
school. He succeeded in collect
ing between $50-$100 before
leaving town.
Another type of confidence
game which is encountered an
nually in the county is the effort
to “enroll” persons in sub
standard or non-existance corre
spondence schools under the pre
text that the enrollee will be
issued a bona fide high school
diploma upon completing the
course. These courses are
usually as expensive as they are
worthless.
Public school personnel will
be happy to assist any person
interested in furthering their
education to find a suitable and
legitimate program by which to
do so, Williams said.
Brief Bits Of
NEWS’
TURKEY SUPPER
The Ocean View Methodist
Church will have a turkey supper
on Friday from 5:30 to 7:30
o'clock.
BENEFIT BARBECUE
The Leland Volunteer Fire De
partment will serve a barbecue
Saturday from noon to 8 p. m.
to help raise funds for equipment.
The public is urged to patronize
this event.
BENEFIT SUPPER
Members of the Bolivia Lions
Club will serve a benefit supper
from 5 until 8 o’clock Saturday
at the school lunchroom. Bar
becued chicken and pork will
be served.
BENEFIT SUPPER
The WSCS Of Shiloh Methodist
Church, Leland, will have a bene
fit supper in the fellowship hall of
the church on Saturday beginning
6 o’clock. The menu will consist!
of barbecue, fried chicken or
flounder. Proceeds will go to the
building fund. Homemade pies and
cakes will also be on sale.
Shallotte Youth
Named Candidate
Ronald E. Hewett, senior at
Shallotte High School, has been
selected as Brunswick county’s
nominee for a Morehead Scholar
ship at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Morehead awards, valued at
$1,450 per year, are made on
the basis of scholarship, char
acter, leadership and physical
vigor.
While awards are made for only
one year, they are renewed for
three additional years if the per
formance and conduct of the
scholar is satisfactory to the
trustees of the Morehead Foun
dation.
After selection by the coun
ty committees, the nominees will
later be screened by district
and central committees in the
state. Finalists recommended by
the central committee are in
terviewed by the Foundation
Trustees, who make final selec
tions.
Hewett, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Rozelle Hewett, is president of
Student Council, captain and
quarterback of Shallotte’s foot
ball team and currently ranks
third scholastically in his class
of 61 students. He has lettered
in four sports and last year was
captain of the basketball team,
which won the conference cham
pionship. He was named on the
all-conference team and as most
valuable player in the conference
basketball tournament. He has
held several student and club of
fices and been active in scouting
and church activites.
Outside activities in addition
to all kinds of sports include
working on a shrimp trawler
during summer months.
Letters Seek
Library Funds
Members of the committee in
charge of working out plans for
a new building for the Southport
Brunswick County Library met
Tuesday night and mapped plans
for mailing letters asking for fi
nancial support for this project.
One method for contacting
friends of the library service
will be through direct mail, and
these letters will be printed on
stationary which shows a print of
the proposed new building in the
background.
Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr.,
of Southport is chairman of the
committee.
Mrs. Sue King, librarian, re
ported that the board of trustees
at the last meeting of the board
of trustees the name of the in
stitution was changed from South
port Public Library to Southport
Brunswick County Library.
"This action was taken by the
board because they feel that this
name is more indicative of the
county-wide scope of the library
service," said Mrs. King.
RONALD E. HEWETT
Individual Farm
Need Discussed
By D. JEFFREY BRENDLE
Soil Conservation Service
A meeting of the Steering Com
mittee on Caw Caw Swamp Water
shed was held Monday night at
W. J. McLamb’s and the land
treatment of the individual farms
in the watershed was discussed.
Project goals were studied and
plans made to meet the land
treatment needs of the water
shed.
It was pointed out at the meet
ing that landowners in the Caw
Caw area should be encouraged
to do as much as possible toward
meeting the treatment needs of
their land, putting themselves in
the best position to utilize the
benefits of the project. The term
“adequate treatment” was used
many times in reference to the
degree of treatment needed on
each acre of land in Caw Caw.
This term was defined and its
application discussed.
For land to be adequately
treated the basic requirement
of “returning to the land its
own” must be met on all land.
This is simply the practices of
turning all crop residue back
to the land in the fall and plant
ing of cover crops where there
is no applicable residue to re
turn as is the case after a tobac
co crop.
Not only must this basic
requirement be met but when
land has problems of one type
or another, these too, must be
treated. Wet lands must be drain
ed and many times a particular
crop planted to loosen up a firm
subsoil. Deep Sandy soils must
have something done to build
them up other than the minimum
requirements of crop residue
return and cover cropping. Wash
ing lands must be treated in one
way or another to prevent
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City Aldermen
Name Members
To Two Boards
Members of the board of aider
men filled vacancies on two
boards at their regular meeting
Thursday night.
L. T. Yaskell was appointed
a member of the board of trustees
of Dosher Memorial Hospital, re
placing Mac Fain, who resigned.!.
Yaskell was a member of this
board many years ago and served
as chairman for several terms.
Ed Oliver and L. J. Hardee
were reappointed to the Southport
Port Commission. Other mem
bers of this five-man body are
General James Glore, William
Love and G. K. Henderson, the
latter from Shallotte.
The board passed a motion to
deed to the board of education
the land necessary to enlarge
the Southport high school gym
nasium, provided work on the
provided work on the project
begins within one year.
City Auditor W. L. Aldridge
reported sale of revenue antici
pation bonds In the amount of
$235,000 as authorized in the spe
cial bond election last year. Of
this amount, $35,000 was applied
to existing indebtedness in the
water and sewage account. The
remainder of $170,000 will be
used to finance the city's share
of the cost for Installing a new
sewage treatment plant and en
larging the sewage system serv
ing the city of Southport.
Fanners Helped
By FHA Loans
More than 85 Brunswick coun
ty rural families were strength
ened during fiscal 1965 by the
Farmers Home Administration
loan program, Parks C. Fields,
local County Supervisor head
quartered in Shallotte, reported
this week.
He said that approximately
$280,000 was loaned to 85 rural
families to buy, enlarge, or de- .
velop farms; construct or re
pair dwellings; purchase fAnri
equipment and livestock; provide
operating capital or to refinance
debts; and that an additional 40
rural families continued to use
FHA credit obtained previous
years.
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Name Winners
In Competition
Union High School was the
scene of the community clubs
program and an exhibit of the
Shallotte area on November 4.
Mr. P. E. Dubar, vocational ag
riculture teacher at Union, pre
sided.
The program was highlighted
by two speakers, Mrs. Covia
Stanley, who spoke on "The
Spirit of Community Clubs," and
Principal Jonathan Hankins, who
spoke on “The Progress of the
Community Development Clubs.”
The displays on exhibit con
sisted of farm produce, hand
crafts, and demonstrations of
manual skills. The decision of the
judges was presented Mr. P. r.
Hankins. First place winner
was Royal Oak Community, sec
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Sub-Juniors Hold Bake Sale
BUSY These Sub-Junior Woman’s Club members are shown as they conducted
their sidewalk bake and shrub sale Saturday morning beside the postoffice in South
port. Left to right they are Frances Jorgensen, Kathy Joyner, Sandy Donnell and
Big Blues Are
Competing With
King Mackerel
Sports fishing was at its best
off Southport during the past few
days, but big bluefish almost
crowded king mackerel out of the
spotlight.
The charterboat captains think
the blues are still here because
the weather has been warm, and
they think the big kings that come
late in the fall have just arrived.
A couple of the boats had som9
that rani from 15 to 20-lbs
jin weight.
. Added to the offshore picture,
Harold spencer, local rod and
reel enthusiast, caught 104 blues
averaging 1-1/2-lbs Thursday
afternoon while plugging at Lock
woods Folly Inlet. On Saturday
he did almost as well when he
picked up 71 of these big blues
in the same manner.
The parties with the big kings
yesterday were J. c. Aaron of
Charlotte, aboard the Idle On IV
with Capt. Hoyle Dosher, and
W. L. Clark of Raleigh, with Capt.
Basil Watts aboard the Idle On
II. Each party had about 25 of
these big fellows.
Among the big bluefish catches
of the past few days, Capt. Ab
bie Dosher had a party that
caught 336 aboard the Idle On in
one day last week; Capt. Bill
Coring had a party aboard the
Botfly that brought in 169 and
Capt. Hoyle Dosher had a party
that landed 125.
SUNNY POINT TIMBER
The Canal Wood Corporation of
Conway, S. C., was the success
ful bidder on 1,213 cords ofpine
pulpwood located on the Sunny
Point military ocean terminal
lands near Southport. The Savan
nah District Army Engineers is
sued a sales contract to the Con
way firm for the sum of $6,283.34.
: Time And Tide
The year was one of the post-depression years, and one measure
to strengthen the hog market was controlled production. A head
line on our November 13 edition for that year told that excess
hogs might ligitimately be donated to the county home. Fire had
destroyed the home of former sheriff I. D. Harrelson in the Lebanon
Community.
A sports fishing picture was on the front page. It showed Charles
Greer beside a 45-lb. black drum he had caught in the Cape Fear
river, about 100-yards from the pilot dock. The late C. L. Stevens
was heading the Red Cross roll call, and the date had been ex
tended beyond the Thanksgiving deadline. There had been changes
in the personnel at the local CCC camp, with Zach Williams being
transferred as educational advisor to a camp near Fort Bragg.
Five years later an election had just been held, and figures re
vealed that less than 4,000 ballots had been cast for county of
ficials. A Red Cross roll call was in progress, this time with
community chairman sharing the responsibility. Work had begun
on an addition to the Southport High School building.
The Rev. Russell Harrison had been returned as pastor of Trinity
Methodist Church; a group of Washington, D. C„ men were having
a late fall go at sports fishing; and questionnaires had been mailed
to 75 registrants by the local Selective Service Board.
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Back in 1945, Southport citizens had been polled regarding the
outstanding need for Southport and they had come up with the
answer; A modern hotel. (The . poll had been conducted by the
late w. B. Keziah, and if that was not the answer, he passed on to
the next person. The poll was unanimous). A drive was on for a
luncheon at Southport High School.
Dredges were at work in the Brunswick River Lay-Up Basin;
veterans at Shallotte were discussing a project to erect a new
Legion Building; and the Rev. O. I. Hinson had been returned as
pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, with the Rev. W. E. Lowe
going to Shallotte for the Methodists.
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Frink Announces
For House Race
S. B. FRINK
Mrs. Harrelson
Club President
Mi-s. E. C. Harrelson was
elected new president of the
Southport Woman’s Club at its
meeting on Thursday night at the
Community Building. She will be
installed at the December meet
ing, which will be a banquet
on Friday, December 3.
Also elected to serve for 1966,
and also to be installed with Mrs.
Harrelson, were Mrs. William
Faulk, first vice-president;
Mrs. William Jorgensen, sec
ond vice-president; Mrs. A. E.
Huntley, secretary; and Mrs.
James Wolfe, treasurer. The last
two named served in these capac
ities during 1965.
The program for the evening
was under the direction of Mrs.
A. B. Joyner, chairman of the
club’s International Affairs De
partment. Mrs. Joyner spoke of
“Project Hope”, which was the
transformation of a surplus hos
pital ship into a floating health
service for people in far comers
of the world. Manned by volunteer
doctors and nurses, and equipped
entirely by private funds, the
S. S. Hope has in the last
several years treated thousands
of patients who would not have
had a chance of recovery, and has
trained thousands of native doc
tors and nurses in modem meth
ods of care and treatment.
It’s first call was Indonesia,
where it remained for 7-1/2
months, and then it proceeded
to Vietnam where it was for 4
months. Subsequent voyages have
taken it to South America twice
and to Africa. The ship served
as the center for mass inocula
tions and health training efforts
and has been a prime example
of the compassion of the Amer
ican people for the under
privileged of the world.
Three guests were present
from the Junior woman’s Club,
Mrs. Bobby Jones, Mrs. C. B.
Caroon and Mrs. Bobby Willis.
Fred Fordham were elected to
membership in the club. Mrs.
T. L. Smith, chaplain, conducted
the devotions.
Hostesses served fruit cake
and coffee or tea to the mem
bers and guests. Hostesses were
Mrs. James Barnes, Mrs. James
Bowman, Mrs. G. T. Savage and
Mrs. Annie Weeks.
S. Bunn Frink, Shallotte at
torney, broke the political ice
this week with the announcement
that he will be a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for
tiie House of Representatives
in the May primary.
This announcement comes at a
time when Representative Odell
Williamson, himself a likely can
didate for re-election, is in Ra
leigh attending a special
session of the General Assembly,
called to consider an amendment
to the Speaker Ban Law.
It also comes at a time when
the serious problems presented
by reapportionment haunt the fu
ture of Brunswick county rep
resentation, for it is unlikely that
any plan can be worked out that
will give this county a rep
resentative every session under
present population figures.
Frink is no stranger to the leg
islative halls of North Carolina,
having served as a member of
the House as well as for several
terms as State Senator.
He is a native of Brunswick
county, practiced law for many
years in Southport before open
ing an office in Shallotte, and
still is associated with E. J. Pre
vatte, who keeps an office in
Southport.
Christinas Seals
Sent This Week
Dr. M. H. Rourk, honorary
chairman of the Christmas
Seal Sale in Brunswick coun
ty, said Monday that Christmas
Seal letters are now in the mail.
The seal sale started officially
on November 16.
"Don't just think of your let
ter as another piece of junk
mail,” Dr. Rourk said, “if you
could see the many hours of
labor given by Girl Scouts, Y
Teens, Girls Clubs, firemen and
just plain volunteers which are
necessary to get this letter to you,
you would really appreciate it.”
Dr. Rourl mentioned that
Christmas Seal money had
already benefited Brunswick
county this past year through
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Field Trip Is
Held For Class
Miss Margla M. Leach, teach
er of Introduction to Vocation
at Union High School, partici
pated in an educational field trip
this month along with 57 students
all of whom are now taking L V.
The trip was made to the Cape
Fear Technical Institute and
and other industrial sites in Wil
mington.
The purpose of the field trip
was to help strengthen the class
room instruction and activltes
carried on in classes concern
ing the world of work in various
occupations. One of the alms
of the introduction to vocation
is to help guide students in areas
of work that they are interested
in as a career. To help students
obtain their goals toward a ca
reer, the L V. teacher feels that
field trips are one of the best
resources, since these trips will
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Two Referenda
Scheduled For
Next Tuesday
Brunswick county farmers will
vote Tuesday in a referendum
to determine the future plan for
cotton production and rules which
will govern the future of peanut
production.
The polling places in Bruns
wick county will be as follows;
Lockwoods Folly and Smith
ville, Ennis Long Gulf Station,
Supply; Northwest, Forrest Wil
liams Store, Northwest; Shal
lotte, J. S. Parker & Son Store,
Grissettown; Town Creek, Wil
letts & Son Motor Co., Bolivia;
Waccamaw, Lonnie Evans Store,
Ash.
Polls will open at 8:00 a. m.
and close at 6:00 p. m.
The new Cotton Program for
1966 is a combination of some
of the old program provisions
with some completely new pro
visions, one of them being acre
age diversion payments like those
under the feed grain and wheat
programs.
The new program is a new at
tack on the cotton surplus and
is designed to help cotton get and
keep markets in the United States
and other countries. The program
includes: Marketing quotas based
on acreage allotments—as in the
past; price-support loans—as in
the past; price-support pay
ments—partly new; acreage di
version payments—new; export
market acreage option—partly
new; release and reapportion
ment of acreage allotments—
as in the past; sale or lease of
allotments—new; exchange of
cotton and rice allotments be
tween farms—new; special pro
visions for farms with small cot
ton allotments—partly new; sign
up to take part in the program—
partly new; advance diversion
payment (60 percent) available
at time of signup, at producer’s
choice—new.
Any farmer may sell or lease
his upland cotton allotment to
another farmer in the same coun
ty. They will also have an op
portunity In the referendum to
determine, by a two-thirds af
firmative vote In the county, 4
whether cotton allotments maybe
sold or leased outside the county.
Special provisions apply to allot
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Open Bids or
New Building
Army Engineers will open bids
December 2 on construction of
communications facility to be
built at the Sunny Point Army
Terminal near Southport.
The contract calls for con
structing a 2,849 square-foot,
one-story addition to an existing
fire house. Other items of work
Includes installing an oil-fired
heating system and 13 tons of
air-conditioning.
Electrical work Includes a 75
kva transformer, 80 linear feet
of primary aerial lines and 6Q
linear feet of secondary under
ground lines. In addition, there
will be 50 linear feet of water
lines, 190 linear feet of sewer
lines, 50 square yards of con
crete paving for sidewalks,
grassing approximately one
fourth acre of land and land-.
scaping of the site. All work is
scheduled for completion within
120 calendar days.
Plans and specification may
be obtained by contacting the Dis
trict Engineer, U. S. Army En
gineer District, P. O. Box 889,
Savannah, Ga.
Tide Table
FoUowtnf la the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These hoipre are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Port
Pilot through the courted?
of the Gape Fear Pilot's As
sociation.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, November 18,
3:39 A. M. 10:00 A. M.
3:58 P. M. 10:30 P. M.
Friday, November 19,
4:37 A. M. 10:59 A. M.
4:53 P. M. 11:21 P. M.
Saturday, November 20,
5:30 A. M. 11:53 A. M.
5:46 P. M. 12:08 P. M.
Sunday, November 21,
6:20 A. M. 12:43 A. M.
6:34 P. M.
Monday, November 22,
7:07 A. M. 0:53 A. M.
7:19 P. M. 1:30 P. M.
Tuesday, November 28,
7:51 A. M. 1:35 A. U.
8:02 P. M. 2:15 P. M.
Wednesday, November 24,
8:33 A. M. 2:15 A. M
8:43 P. M. 2:58 P. M.
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