THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Volume 25
No. 26
8-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. G WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1965
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Coon Hunt Brings Action
ACTION—Plenty of excitement is in prospect for participants and spectators at the
Wild Coon Hunt and Bench Show Saturday at Boones Neck at the Russell Hewett
pond. This is a scene from last year’s event.
Set Live Coon
Hunt Saturday
At Boones Neck
SHALLOTTE — Some of the
top hunters and coon-dogs in the
state are expected to be on hand
when the Coastal Coon Hunters
Association holds its UKC-li
censed Wild Coon Hunt and Bench
Show at Boones Neck near here,
Saturday, Dec. 11.
A non-licensed water race will
also be held in connection with
the show, according to A. E. Cal
lender, president of the Coastal
Coon Hunters Association, which
has its headquarters atShallotte.
Mitchell McCoy, also of Shal
lotte, is secretary.
The bench show starts at 10
a. m., with grade and registered
dogs competing; the water race
begins at 1:30 p. m. with champ
ion and green dogs swimming
separately; and the after-dark
wild coon hunt begins at 7 p. m.
with grade and registered dogs
hunting separately. Entry fee
for the coon hunt is $5; for the
other events, $2 each. UKC
papers will be required to enter
all registered dogs in the bench
show and wild hunt.
Nice trophies will be awarded,
according to CCHA officials.
This will include one for the
“Ugly Dog”. The headquarters
for Hie hunt will be near Rus
sell Hewett’s fish-pond in the
Boones Neck area. The road
will be clearly marked by red
arrows from Shallotte toward
Holden’s Beach on NC 130.
Entries in the Bench Show will
include Slim, owned by Harry
Bennett, Shallotte; Bill, W. F.
Carlyle, Wilmington; Blue Hawk,
O’Neil Bennett, Lumberton; Mar
leys Red, R. R. Sommer sett,
Siallotte; Buck, James Butler,
Lumberton; Rose & Cindy, J. Noel
Bryan, Garner; Tennessee Red,
Larry Gore, Clarendon; Joe,
Marvin E. Broad well, Varina.
Water Race entries will include
Joe, Elmore Cooker, Fayette
vlUe; Blue, J. D. Thornton, New
ton Grove; Rattler, W. C. Mun
den, Fair Oaks; Trail, Sonny
Bunderick, Florence, S. C.;
Smokey, Gail Enzor, Nichols,
S. C.; Big Boy, David Tyler,
Wilmington; Tall Man, Taft Tur
beville of Clarendon; Red, Tom
Marlowe, Clarendon; Clark, Buck
Thronton, Newton Grove; Rich,
Jimmy Galloway, Supply; Jack,
L. C. Ward, Naklna; Ring,
Robert Wright of Clarendon.
In the Nite Hunt will be such
dogs and owners as Blacky, Nor
man Grissett, Shallotte; Vurley,
Norwood Williams, Wallace;
Tut’s TilUe, Tut Lohr, High
Point; Joe, o. C. Harvey, Fay
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CHRISTMAS PARTY
The Jaycette Christmas Party
will be held Monday night. Each
member is asked to bring a gift.
The party will be at the Jaycee
Building at 8 o'clock.
BENEFIT BARBECUE
The Winnabow Volunteer Fire
Department will sponsor a bar
becue supper Saturday at Town
Creek Grange Hall across from
Henry’s Esso on Highway 17.
Cakes and pies also will be on
sale. Serving will begin at 5
P. m.
Big Rockfish
PRIZE—Ernest Stanley of Southport caught the biggest
rockfish taken around here this year while fishing Tues
day at Walden Creek bridge. His striper (as they are
sometimes called) weighed 2014-lbs and it took him 10
minutes to land the fish.— (Photo by Dosher).
Three Children
Die In Home Fire
Three children were pro
nounced dead from burns in a fire
that occurred around 2 o’clock
Thursday afternoon.
Charles Allen Bryant Jr., four
year old, Shirley Bryant, two
years old and Sheldon Bryant,
nine months, were killed in a
fire started by a wood heater.
Alex Ganey, deputy sheriff
of Brunswick County, and
coroner Lowell Bennett said
that the fire was accidental
and no inquest will be held.
The father, Charles Allen
Bryant Sr., was working at a
Wilmington fertilizer company
at the time. The mother, Mrs.
Lossie Mae Bryant, was visiting
with a near-by neighbor.
The Leland Fire Department
arrived in time to prevent the
fire from spreading to another
house.
Graveside funeral services
for the children was held
Friday at 10:30 a.m. in Navassa
at the Mount Calvary Cemetery
with the Rev. Fred David of
ficiating.
Survivors include the parents
and three sisters, Velma Jean
Bryant, Priscilla Faye and
Gwendolyn Audrey Bryant.
Slate Tobacco
Meet Next Week
The annual meeting for tobacco
growers will be held at 2 p. m.
in the auditorium of the Agricul
ture Building in Supply on De
cember 15, Archie Martin, county
extension chairman, said this
week. Tobacco producers are
urged to attend this meeting to get
information on results of 1965
experimental work and suggested
practices to improve tobacco
quality for 1966, S, N. Hawks,
will be the main speaker for
the meeting.
Subjects to be covered include:
Fertilization, height of topping
and spacing, sucker control, new
varieties and variety perform
ance, plant beds, and insect
control. Results of demonstra
tions conducted by farmers will
be discussed. One of the most
interesting is the results from
the height of topping demonstra
tions.
Farmers who are Interested In
improving the quality of their to
bacco and getting a higher price
per pound, should make a special
effort to attend the December 15
meeting.
Interviews For
School Vacancy
Held By Board
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met in regular ses
sion on Monday night, and two
applicants were interviewed for
the position of superintendent
of Brunswick County Schools.
They were George Williams of
Peachland, W. H. Tuck of Camp
Lejeune, B. D. Bunn of white
ville, Roy Biggerstaff of South
port and Edwin Currie of Wacca
maw.
The Board instructed Asst.
Supt. King to contact other ap
plicants concerning the Superin
tendency vacancy and arrange for
interviews for Friday of this
week.
Attorney Sullivan gave a report
as to the disposal of the old
Phoenix School property. W. A.
Kopp was recognized by the board
and indicated an interest in the
purchase of the above mentioned
property for a small business
use. Attorney Sullivan recom
mended that the above mention
property be sold to E. I. DuPont
DeNemous and Company.
The board unanimously ap
proved the sale of the old
Phoenix4 School property for the
sum of $910.00 to DuPont who
.are the asignee of W. C. God
win and wife, Mrs. Lela K. God
win, who were the last and highest
bidder at the resale of the above
mentioned property held on May
24, 1965.
Attorney Sullivan reported to
the board on recent legal infor
mation received from the At
torney General concerning school
districts. No action was taken
by the board.
Attorney Sullivan advised the
board as to legal technicalities
encountered in securing the
proper and legal title for the
property on which the proposed
addition to the Southport High
School gym is to be constructed.
By unanimous vote of the board,
Asst. King was authorized to em
ploy Miss Gertrude Loughlin on
a temporary basis to assist in
the administration of the NDEA
Program. The Board approved
up to $10 per day tor this posi
tion.
Candy Stripers
Receive Pins
Nine Southport girls who have
worked for a minimum of 20
hours each as Candy Stripers at
Dosher Hospital were honored
Tuesday night when Mrs. Vera
Howard, R. N., and Dr. Fred
Burdette awarded them their
pins.
Candy Stripers are a part of a
volunteer organization under the
American Red Cross. Their work
at the local hospital has been
of considerable assistance and
the young ladies were thanked by
the medical representatives at
the Tuesday night program, which
was held at the Jaycee Building.
The Southport Candy Stripers
are sponsored by the Southport
Junior Woman’s Club and Mrs.
Bobby Jones, club president,
participated in the awards pro
gram.
Special attention was given to
Dixie Freeman, who has put in a
total of 120 hours in the program.
Others receiving pins were
Linda Price, Harriett St. George,
Carolyn styron, Pamela Poindex
ter, Scarlet Price, Lee Dowling,
Nancy Smith and Joan Smith.
On Television Show
PANEL—These five men comprised the panel for the program last Wednesday over
WNCT-Greenville on Boat Building in Brunswick County. From left to right they are
Sherman Hustead, Gilbert Grissett, Martin Nielson, Roy Stevens and Thomas W. Willis.
Monday Morning
Family Escapes Blaze
A Southport family of ten had
a narrow escape in the early
morning hours Monday when fire
burned away the side of the home
in which they were asleep and
completely destroyed an automo
bile paint and body shop next
door.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Long and
children were awakened by Earl
Gore, their next door neighbor,
who had seen the flames eating
away at the building occupied by
Glenn Hart’s body shop. The
family got out of the house to
find that flames were gnawing
away at the weatherboarding on
the side next to the bodyworks
building.
The Southport Volunteer Fire”
Department was on the job with
all equipment, and later was
joined by a unit from Sunny Point.
The body shop was too far gone
to save, and ensuing explosions
further complicated the job of
bringing the blaze under control.
The Long home was only a few
feet away, and only another job
of miraculous containment on
the part of the Southport file
men prevented the house from
being a total loss. As it was,
they stopped the burning at the
framing on the exposed side.
The loss to the Longs in per
sonal belongings and household
effects was great, and none of it
was covered by insurance. The
Southport Volunteer Fire De
partment has become a receiving
agency for assistance to the
family and cash and clothing has
come in to help their situation.
In addition to the mother and
father, the family includes Lonnie
17, Judy 16, Dietrich 14 year
old girl, Patricia 12, Belinda
Sue 11, Terry 10, Mike 8 and
Danny 7.
Mrs. Long said this week that
they have enough bed clothing to
do, but that the closet in which
all of the girls’ clothing was
stored was on the side next to
the fire. Some of the family
provisions from the deepfreeze
were saved when Chief of Police
Herman Strong took some of the
frozen food home for safe
storage.
Time And Tide
December 4, 1935, and winter had been here. The temperature had
dropped to 26-degrees, and some out-of-season blossoms had been
blighted by the cold. There was a note that Boatswain Roy Robin
son, In charge of Oak Island Coast Guard Station for the past 4
years, was being transferred to Boston.
There had been no Thanksgiving dinner served at the Brunswick
county jail for the simple reason that the local bastile had been
empty during the holiday period. A dozen men from the local CCC
camp had given blood for a patient at the local hospital; and Dr.
D, I. Watson had celebrated his 79th birthday with open house at his
home here. ,
Thomas Crady Floyd, Southport boy, becams the first man to
be furnished the armed services through the local Selective Serv
ice Board. He volunteered for one year and left on Wednesday,
December 4, 1940, for Ft. Bragg. That was the same day The
Pilot came out that week. Orton reported a profusion of early bloom
ing camellias, probably as the result of an unusually mild November.
A group of upstate fox hunters visited Brunswick and found that
their luck was too good. Foxes were so thick they got in each other’s
way. The Outdoor writers of America had returned to their homes,
and clippings from their newspapers were beginning to come in.
They had been much Impressed with the hunting and fishing around
the Brunswick county area.
A big, black headline across the front page of our issue for De
cember 5, 1945, proclaimed; “Brunswick Over Top In Victory Loan."
The Leland Lions Club had received their charter, and Mack f.
Jones was the first president. Dredging had been scheduled for the
Brunswick River Layup Basin.
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Boat Outfitters
On T-V Program
JAMES M. CHAMBLEE
Chamblee Will
Direct Messiah
A performance of George
Friedrich Handel’s musical
giant, "Messiah” will be one of
the highlights of the Christmas
season in the Triangle area in
Raleigh. The free public concert
will be given by the Raleigh
Oratorio Society at 3 p. m. on
December 19 in Raleigh’s Me
morial Auditorium.
James M. Chamblee of Chapel
Hill will direct the performance.
He is the son of the Rev. and
Mrs. E. C. Chamblee of South
port.
Chamblee, who took over di
rectorship of the Raleigh
Oratorio Society this year, is a
doctoral candidate in the De
partment of Music, UNC-CH. An
experienced musician of excep
tional talent, he is on leave from
the chairmanship of the Music
Department of Chowan College,
Murfreesboro, N. C. While pur
suing graduate study in musico
logy at UNC-CH, he has directed
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Dredging Bids
Due December
Colonel Beverly C. Snow, Jr.,
District Engineer, announced this
week that bid opening date for the
40-foot Wilmington Harbor pro
ject has been postponed from 11
a. m. December 7 to 11 a. m.
December 14.
Colonel Snow said that the post
ponement was considered to be in
the best interest of the Govern
ment and was made at the re
quest of numerous prospective
bidders who needed more time
to investigate the work and pre
pare estimates for the large pro
ject. The work involves the re
moval of an estimated 10,000,000
cubic yards of new dredging and
1,400,000 cubic yards of main
tenance dredging. Time required
for prosecution of the work is
870 days.
Brunswick county was spot
lighted on television over station
WNCT Channel 9, Greenville, on
December 1 according to an an
nouncement this week by w. A.
Powell, chairman of the Re
sources Development Commis
sion.
Powell reported that WNCT*sr*
“Carolina in the Morning” pro
gram between 8 and 8:30 a. m.
spotlighted Brunswick county and
particularly the boat building in
dustry in Brunswick.
Gilbert Grlssett and Martin
Neilsen of Shallotte appeared on
the program with Roy A. Stevens,
director of the Resources De
velopment Commission, Thomas
W. Willis, director of the East
ern North Carolina Regional Re
search and Development Institute
of East Carolina College, and
Sherman Hustead, master of
ceremonies for the “Carolina
in the Morning” program.
The representatives of Bruns
wick were given an opportunity
to discuss the many assets of
the county along with a discus
sion on boat building in this
area.
Pictures were shown on the
various stages of boat building
from the laying of the keel to
the delivery and use of the boats
in the county. The pictures had
been taken over a several week
period in preparation fortheT-V
program.
Stevens commented on the de
livery of the boat “5 Devils”
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Lennon To Be
Here Wednesday
Congressman Alton Lennon
will spend Tuesday and Wednes
day of next week visiting in
Brunswick county, according to
announcement received this week
from his office.
Tuesday will be spent in visit
ing various places in Brunswick
while Wednesday will be spent
at the courthouse in Southport.
Monday, Thursday and Friday
of next week will be spent in
the district office in Wilming
ton.
"This has been an extreme
ly busy year for us in Wash
ington, and I have not been able
to visit in our district as often
as I would have liked. Un
fortunately, the late Congres
sional adjournament made it nec
essary for me to cancel a num
ber of previous engagement in the
Seventh,” said Congressman
Lennon.
“In my visit throughout our
district, it is my hope that I may
be able to learn by discussion
with our people some of their
problems in connection with our
National Government,” he de
clared.
One matter that may be of some
concern to Congress man Lennon
Is the reapportionment that has
been ordered by the Federal
Court. There is no indication
that the Seventh District post
Is in jeopardy, but it is entirely
possible that existing boundaries
may be altered as a result of
court action.
PCA Will Hold
Annual Metting
In Wilmington
The 32nd annual stockholders'
meeting of the Wilmington Pro
duction Credit Association will
be held Friday, at 1:30 p, m. at
its Wilmington office. The
speaker for this meeting will be
James E. Whitten, administra
tive assistant, Federal Inter
mediate Credit Bank of Columbia,
according to H. B. Rivenbark,
general manager of the associa
tion.
“Production Credit Associa
tions established in 1933 brought
renewed life into the American
farm picture. The availability of
short and intermediate credit for
farmers has made possible long
range financial planning essential
to progress”, Rivenbark said.
“The character of the farming
Industry is undergoing drastic
and rapid change,” he continued.
“Today, the keynote to survival
is efficiency and better manage
ment. Efficient farming opera
tions require larger farm units
per individual farmer. Larger
units bring about the need for
additional equipment, livestock,
feed, seed, gas, buildings, ma
terials, handling equipment, land
improvement programs. All of
these require a strong and de
pendable source of credit—the
kind of credit that can best be
supplied by farmer owned, con
trolled and operated PCAs”, said
Rivenbark.
The Wilmington Association
serves 1,018 farmer-members in
Brunswick, Pender and New Han
over counties, with part-time
field offices in Shallotte and Bur
gaw. These farmer-members
used PCA credit this year in the
amount of $2,356,000; and these
farmer-stockholders own $329,
190 stock in the Wilmington As
sociation.
Directors of the organization
are Edwin S, Clemmons, Supply;
J. B. Ward, Jr., Long wood, Chas.
R. Rogers, Rocky Point; A. B.
Herring, Watha; and Albert D.
Cox, Jr,, Castle Hayne.
Medicare Aid
Deadline Near
The Wilmington Social Security
office Is going all out to get folks
into effect next July. It’s a
big job—because they’re look
ing for about 6,000 claims
in the 5 counties they serve,
and these represent the peo
ple who are 65 or over
as of the end of this month.
These people must file a claim
right away, or else the govern
ment will pay no hospital bills
for them during the first two
years of the program.
To make it as easy as pos
sible, the Social Security office
is sending a representative to
the several places in Brunwick
next week.
“If you know of someone who
isn’t receiving Social Security
benefits, or Railroad Retire
ment or welfare payments,
please have them meet the rep
re sentatve (or send someone for
them) when he is in your neigh
borhood,” Doris H. Moss, field
representative, said this week.
“It is not necessary to sign
up if you are presently on Social
Security rolls,” she explained.
A representative will be at the
following places Monday, Decem
ber 13; Winnabow, Post Office,
9:00 a. m.; Bolivia, D. H. Hawes
Grocery Store, 9:45 a. m.; Sup
ply, Post Office, 10:30 a. m.;
Shallotte, County Health Center,
11:30 a. m.; Grissettown, Glenn
Parker Store, 2; 30 p. m.
Tide Table
Following la the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These hotfis are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Fort
Pilot through the courtesy
of the Cape Fear Pilot's An
■odatton.
HIGH LOW
Thursday. December 9,
1:43 A. M. 8:16 A. M.
2:31 P. M. 8:36 P. M.
Friday, December 10,
2:32 A. M. 9:07 A. M.
3:20 P. M. 9:29 P. M.
Saturday, December 11,
3:22 A. M. 9:50 A M.
4:12 P. M. 10:25 P. M.
Sunday, December 12,
4:15 A. M. 10:53 A M.
5:04 P. M. 11:24 P. M.
Monday, December IS,
5:12 A. M. 11:50 A M.
6:00 P. M.
Tuesday, December 14,
6: 13 A M. 0:26 A. M.
6:59 P. M. 12:49 P. M.
Wednesday, December 15,
7:19 A. M. l:?9 A M.
7:58 P. M. 1:49 P. M.