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V $ *; v ■ .• ' ■ ' - ' , : ' Most ot the News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume 25 No. 28 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N.C-WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 22. 1965 5i A COPY PUBUSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Mrs. Baxter Durham with portrait of her late husband and Auditor Henry Bridges Employees At Riegel Giving From Payroll Riegel Paper Corporation em ployees have contributed $15, 242.45 to 41 charities in South eastern North Carolina through the Riegel Employees Community Fund Drive. The average dona tion per employee was $15.72. Pledges by county were Co lumbus, $8,169.50; New Hanover, $4,643.25; Brunswick, $1,341.10; Bladen, $946; Pender, $124.60; As most pledges were made by payroll deductions, payment to the charitable agencies will be mailed quarterly during 1966. A total of $1841 was specified to be allocated by the Riegel Employees Community Fund Committee. The committee is made up of T. W. Croom, Co lumbus County; W. G. Vickers, New Hanover; G, L. Norris, Bla den; R. D. Simmons, Brunswick; Hubert Bordeaux; Local 738: James Randall, Local 738 and Dr. Jesse C. Fisher, Jr., com pany representative chairman. Results Given On T. B. Tests Tine tests lor the detection o 1 tuberculosis have been conducted recently in the schools of Bruns wick county through the coopera tion ol the Brunswick County Health Department, the N. C. Tuberculosis Association and the Brunswick County Board of Edu cation. Materials for giving the test to all 9th grade students in the county were furnished by the T. B. Association and the Board of Education furnished ma terials for testing home economics students at all county schools. Results of the tests show that a total of 904 were given. Of this number 763 were negative, .103 were given the old tubercu lin test, and 69 were referred for chest x-ray. Proceeds from sale of Christ mas Seals helps to finance these tests. n LANDMARK DEMOLISHED The Wilson Arnold Service Sta tion, more recently operated by Mrs. Maude Robinson, located on U. S. Highway No. 17 between Shallotte and Supply, has been torn down. CHRISTMAS TREES Christmas trees are on sale at the Southport Police Depart ment in Southport and proceeds from sales will go to a building fund for renovating the office for that organization. NO SUPERINTENDENT The Brunswick County Board of Education met In special ses sion Monday night but failed to elect a superintendent of schools to fill the vacancy created by the death of W. N. Williams In Nov ember. BOOKMOBILE OFF ftiere will be no runs of the Brunswick County Bookmobile during the week beginning Dec. 27. During that time It will be repainted. Regular schedules will resume on January 4, with the Supply Route. Portrait Honors Baxter Durham Governor Dan K. Moore and members of the Council of State were present Thursday for the unveiling of a portrait of former State Auditor Barter Durham In the office of State Auditor Henry Bridges. The portrait, which was painted by Miss Mary Tillery, was pre sented to the State by Mrs. Lois Durham, widow of the late state official, it was unveiled by Davis C. Herring, Jr., of Southport, who is her nephew. Secretary of State Than1. Eure gave the presentation aulress, the text of which follows: “Through the devotion, kind ness and generosity of Mrs. Lois Dosher Durham, surviving wife of the late former State Auditor Barter Durham, we meet here this hour for the presentation of his portrait to the Department which he headed so long and so faithfully. I commend her for this public service, for it will help to preserve for coming generations the memory of her husband as one who aspired only to be a worthy servant of his be loved state. It is altogether fitting that this occasion should serve to remind those present and all citizens of our State of the outstanding character of this noble son of North Carolina. “Baxter Durham was born in the City of Durham on August 20, 1878, and relinquished his leasehold on life on March 31, 1963, having attained the age of eighty-four; fifty years of which was in the service of his State. “Major Durham, as commis sioned in the National Guard, after his education in the public schools of Durham and Raleigh and Wake Forest College, be gan his public service as a tax clerk in the State Auditor’s Of fice on January 2, 1907. He be came the department’s first traveling auditor in 1919. When the then State Auditor, Colonel W. P. Wood, announced that he would not be a candidate to suc ceed himself early in 1920, Bax ter announced for the office and was nominated from a field of five candidates. After his elect ion he was inducted into office on January 12, 1921. He was re elected to this office in 1924, in 1928 and in 1932, and served this capacity until January 7, 1937. During this period of time he was one of the four consti tutional officers that constituted (Continued On Page Twoi' Advertise Bids For Dredging Colonel Beverly C. Snow, Jr., District Engineer, Army Engi neer District, announced Mon day that invitations to bid would be issued about December 20 for dredging at the Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point. The work will involve the removal and dis posal of all material lying above the plane of 34-feet below mean low water in the ship channels and basins at the installation. Channels vary from 300 feet to 400 feet in width, while the basin areas to be dredged vary from 600 to 1,000 feet in width. Quantity of material to be re moved is estimated to be approxi mately 4,335,000 cubic yards, in cluding an estimated 808,000 cubic yards allowable overdepth dredging. The Military Ocean Terminal is located approximately 14.6 miles downstream from Wil mington and approximately 5.5 miles upstream from Southport, on the west side of the Cape Fear River. The bid opening has been scheduled for January 20, 1965. Canal Bridge Being Closed The North Carolina State High way Commission has advised the Wilmington District CorpsofEn-'. gineers, that their Fort Caswell drawbridge across the Inter coastal Waterway near Southport must be closed to navigation for the purpose of making emergency repairs to the bridge operating machinery. The periods of closure to navi gation are as follow: 8 a. m. to 11 a. m. and 1 p. m„ to 4 p. m. EST, daily, December 21,22 and 23. Masters of vessels desiring passage through this bridge on these dates should arrange their schedules accordingly. Donations For TB Pouring In Christmas is a gala occasion even in the hospital - when it is North Carolina Sanatorium. Each ward has a door decorat ing contest, with a prize for the most attractive or ingenious decoration and a grand prize for the best. Since the patients have to furnish their own ma terials - sometimes it takes imagination, patience and in genuity, rather than much cash outlay. Each patient from the 6 county area served by the SENC TB Ass’n will have a Christmas package, distributed by Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Many of the patients from our six southeastern counties have been sent boxes furnished by civic clubs and church organizations. But with 43 patients to be cared for, some 26 boxes are being given from patient service funds held by the SENC TB Associa tion, from last year’s Christmas Seal Sale. At last count, December 18, Brunswick County had con tributed $487, or nearly 80% of its total for last year. Board Settles Old Problem Mambers of the board of county commissioners in session here Monday appointed Harry Sell of Southport and H. H. Reynolds of Northwest to serve as electrical Inspectors on a county wide basis. This action becomes effective January 1 and will extend until July 1. It is expected to put an end to controversy that has developed during the past few months over the duties and ad ministration of the affairs of this office. The board accepted the resignation of Burnett Coleman as assistant county agent of Brunswick county. He will go to Pender county as an assistant In the FHA program. He has been working with the 4-H pro gram In Brunswick for the past two years. H. T. Bowmer was appointed County Oyster Inspector, to work in cooperation with the Com mercial Fisheries Division of the Department of Conservation and Development. He will receive no salary from the county, and his remuneration will come from fees paid by private Individuals who lease oyster grounds. Present Bibles | To Schools In This County Christmas gifts in the form of Bibles have been presented to four senior high schools in Brunswick county by the North Carolina Merchants Association, It is announced by Thompson Greenwood, executive vice presi dent of the 3,000-member retail organization. Schools receiving the Bibles are: Bolivia High School, Bo livia; Brunswick County High School, Southport, Lincoln High School, Leland; Southport High School, Southport. Greenwood said the gift was made possible through the co operative efforts of Colonial Sores, the Belk Foundation, and the 8 members of the North Carolina Merchants Association in this county. “We have been amazed at the number requests received for this Bible - and in fact we lacked a few having enough to go around”, said Greenwood. He explained that early in De cember each senior high school principal in the State was sent an announcement of the gift for schools requesting it. Over 500 of the Bibles - each weighing approximately six pounds and with 1,800 pages - have been mailed to the schools. This King James Version of the Bible, profusely illustrated, is designed for library reference work, for chapel programs, and In other ways deemed “fitting and proper” by the various schools receiving the gift. Child’s Letter Gets Results Service men stationed now throughout the world often bring long separations and hardships between the men and their families. And no one feels this more than the thousands of service men’s children as they look at the empty chair—maybe in the den or at the table. One small eight-year-old Dur ham boy expressed his fellings as he so diligently or laboriously searched for words to express his felling to one he thought could help. Little A. L. Thornburg, Jr., grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hewett of Supply, wrote his plea on a mear piece of school note paper and dropped it in a mail box, where the postal workers directed it to the Salvation Army. It said: "God’s Only Begotten Son Jesus, "Whitest Cloud, “Heven, "Dear Jesus, “Will You plese tell daddy’s bosses to let him come home at the end of November? I want to talk about a lot of things with him. I love him so much, I do not know what to do. I have missed him so much that mother and all of us hasn’t got the mony to pay for all the food we bought. Jesus I love you so much I do not know what to do neather. Will you plese tell daddy’s bosses this? (Continued On Page Pour) V* iifSb * sa aSHfe stli:: slifeSfelliSss Administration Building READY—This is the administration building at the ferry terminal at Price Creek. The ferry crew has been hired and some of the employees already have reported for work. Service across the lower Cape Fear is expected to start early in the new year. Advise Farmers On How To Raise Better Tobacco By ARCHIE F. MARTIN County Extension Chairman According to S. N. Hawks, ex tention tobacco specialist^ to bacco growers must follow many recommanded practices in order to produce a good quality crop in 1966. Hawks was the speaker at a county-wide tobacco meeting held in Supply on December 15. He said that there is no one variety or practice that would add a greatr deal of value to the crop but there were many that will add a little. Growers were urged to follow all of the recommended practices and not leave anything to chance. The highest return on his in vestment is the primary goal for Hie tobacco farmer, and tied closely with this goal is the quality of the leaf that will be placed on the market floor. Hawks lists 10 steps that should help assure a quality crop and a potential money-maker. 1. The first step in a tobacco quality program is to plant a variety that can be expected to produce the highest percent age in the highest priced grades and tobacco that has desirability at the market. 2. Fertilize according to soil test, soil texture, depth of top soil and rainfall. Use a pre plant tobacco fertilizer contain ing at least 50 per cent of the nitrogen in the nitrate form. It is desired that all the nitrogen Is sidedressing be nitrate nitro gen. Tobacco which absorbs a high amount of ammonium nitro gen from ammonium or organic sources has tended to be toady, dull in color, and poor in texture. Keep the amount of chlorine ap plied down to 20 to 30 lbs. per acre, considering all sources. 3. Two methods may be used (Continued On Page Ftour) Time And Tide «»«»« Times were hard back in 1935, so hard that one of the important off-season sources of income was fur trapping. A front page piece in our issue for Christmas day of that year spoke of the fact that some ritzy fur pieces had their origin in the wilds of Brunswick. The county was glazed over for a white Christmas, with a blanket of ice covering the countryside. Groucho Marx—the same one that is still on television—was the star of "A Night at the Opera”; there was a reduction in cost of automobile license plates in prospect for motorists; and South port shrimpers had get together to request a survey of the local shrimping grounds, with wrecks and hidden obstructions to be marked. In our edition for December 18, 1940, there was a report of an escape on horseback by a young Southport maiden from a pursuing mule. (The race wound up adead heat to the barnyard.) Don Carpenter, Washington, D. C., sports writer, had made another successful deepsea fishing trip here. The board of comnissioners had approved plans for revaluation; thirty persons had qualifed for Red Cross First Aid Instructor Certificates; and Friday 13 had been selected as the day to plant some early vegetable crops over on Bald Head Island. Manager Charlie Matthews was superstitious! It was the week before Christmas, December 19, 1945, to be exact, and hundreds of Brunswick county service men were to be at home for the holidays for the first time in several years. Large shipments of holidays greenery were being made from various points in this section. Charlie Sellers and Slim Osborne of Win nabow had demonstrated that coon hunting can be a daylight sport by bagging from two to a half-dozen of these ringtailed animals before noon. The weather man had given Southport school students a bonus of one week in their Christmas vacation; two government dredges, the Huston and the Talcot, had arrived for work in restoring the Cape Fear River channels depth to 30-feet; county offices were to have only Christmas Eve and Christmas day off from 'work. (Continued On Page Pour) Holidays Begin For Christmas Judging Set For Thursday An outdoor Christmas lighting and decorating contest is being sponsored again this year by the Southport Garden Club. Judging will begin at 6 o’clock on the evening of December 23. The following categories will be judged: Over-all decora tions, 1st and 2nd prizes; prettiest doorways, 1st and 2nd prizes; prettiest living tree 1st and 2nd prizes; one prize for the most original idea indecora ting. ' “ Plant Beds Are Drought Victim Recent rains have helped re lieve the situation in regard to plant bed treatment, Archie Martin, County Extension Chair man, said this week. "The treatment is not effective under dry conditions no matter what material you use,” he said. “Good soil moisture makes all treatments work better. There are several ways to fumigate plant beds for nematodes and weed control but the best is still Methyl Bromide gas under a plastic canvass. The gas is an effective control for nematodes, kills most grasses and weeds, and also controls some diseases and Insects that might be present. One bad feature is that it also reduces the number of the bacteria that change organic nitrogen to nitrate nitrogen. For this reason you should use some nitrate nitrogen as a part of your plant bed fertilization pro gram, The nitrate nitrogen will help your plants to get started faster Some growers have found that the addition of Aldrin or some other soil insecticide at planting time has been helpful in prevent ing insects from moving in while the plants are small. Lets try to have some strong healthy plants ready for the coming sea son.” Literature on 1965 demonstra tions and tests is available in the County Extension Office in Supply. Those who are interested may come by the office and discuss them. Taylor Seeks NCEA Position A. Woodrow Taylor, superin tendent of the Hamlet City Schools, has announced his candi dacy for the vice presidency of the South Piedmont District of the North Carolina Education As sociation for 1966-67. A native of Grifton, Supt. Tay lor has served as president of the Northeastern District of the NCEA, and as president of the county NCEA groups in Duplin, Granville and Hertford. He Is president-elect of the South eastern NCEA. He also has been a member of the White House Conference on Education, and has served In various other capacities In edu cation in the state. Tayior served as superintend ent of Brunswick County Schools until he resigned on October 1 to accept the position in Hamlet. He came to Southport from Ahoskle, where he was principal of the high school. Christinas holidays began Tuesday afternoon for school children of Brunswick county, who are slated to return to the classrooms on January 3. City and county offices will be closed at the end of the work day on Wednesday and em ployees will be off until Tuesday morning. City Manager C. D. Pickerrell said today that a special garbage collection schedule has been worked out for the holidays. This calls for collections at stores, motels and the hospital on Thurs day and Monday morning. On Friday collections will be made all over town. * '*The two lending institution^ that serve Brunswick county, the Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co. and Security Savings & Loan, both with offices at Southport and Shallotte, will be closed on Mon day as well as on Saturday. The post office employees will have only Christmas day as a holiday. Most of the stores and other business places will be open for business on Christmas eve, will be closed on Saturday and will be open for business again on Monday. Union Students At Convention A Union High School delega tion attended the 15th Annual Convention of the NCASC at the Queen Charlotte Hotel in Char lotte on December 6-7. Making the trip were Emer son Fullwood, 1964-65 Parlia mentarian of the North Carolina Association of Student Councils; Miriam Gore and Kenneth John son, student council representa tives; F. G. McConneaughey, co assistant of the student council and Miss Kaihell Stanley, stu dent council advisor. The theme of the convention was “Youth Prepares to Accept The Challenge of the Great So ciety." Convention speakers were Dr. Gerald Van Pool, Director of Stu dent Activities of the National Association of Student Councils; Dr. A. Craig Phillips, superin tendent of Charlotte Mecklen burg Schools, and Miss Lor raine Cumbo, guidance con sultant of the Department of Public Instruction of the State of North Carolina. Miss Stanley was a consultant of one of the twelve discussion groups held. Her group discussed the topic, “What Should be the Membership Standards and Characteristics of Council Mem bers and Officers"? Emerson Fullwood was in charge of the campaign session in which Miriam Gore ran for the office of state secretary of the NCASC. She did not win but wound up in third place among a group of six candidates. At the convention banquet Full wood gave a report of the 29th Annual National Conference of Student Councils which he at tended in August at Lexington, Kentucky. He, along with the executive secretary of the NCASC and three other officers, met with the sec ondary principals at A & T Col lege on December 9 during a session of the Department of Secondary School Principals Convention held in Bluford Library. Fullwood who spoke on the “Advantages of Attending the (Continued On Page FVbur)-' Equipment For: Special Work : For Brunswick; Vocational education pro grams in tiie Brunswick County Schools are now receiving equip ment for the respective programs under the Federal Vocational Ed ucation Act of 1963, according to Ralph C. King, assistant Super intendent of Brunswick County Schools. Equipment orders valued in excess of $12,000 have been placed with the Purchase and Contract Division of the Depart ment of Administration of the State of North Carolina. These orders are now being processed and actual delivery of some equipment has been made. Fifty percent of the cost of this equip ment is funded by the Federal Government under the provision of the Federal Vocational Educa tion Act of 1963, with fifty per cent of cost being covered by county or local funds. Vocational programs in the Brunswick county schools parti cipating in this program includes five vocational agricultural de partments, eight vocational home economics departments and five trades and industry departments. Each vocational teacher was asked to select the most needed equipment for his respective department. This equipment ranged from silverware and auto matic washers for the home eco nomics departments to heavy pieces of woodworking equipment for the vocational agriculture and trades and industry pro grams. “The acquisition of this equip ment for our vocational programs will greatly strengthen and im prove the effectiveness of the Instruction provided by each of the vocational programs,” King said this week. Prisoner Hurts! Sheriff Leonard Sheriff E. V, Leonard is a patient it Dosher Memorial where he is in traction follow ing a neck injury alleged to have resulted when he was kicked in the back of the head Saturday night by a young Southport white man whom he and two other officers had arrested on a charge of public drunkenness. Defendant in the case is Char les Willis, who was later placed in jail and remained there until about noon Monday, when he was freed under a cash bond of $400. A second charge of assaulting a police officer has been added. According to reports from the Sheriff Department, Sheriff Leonard was called to investi gate a disturbance at the Willis home on Oak Island. When he discovered the conditions of the emergency, he radioed for as sistance and Policeman Bill Mor gan and an ABC officer rode over to lend a hand. Willis was placed under ar rest and was placed in the back seat of the police car to be brought to Jail, with the three officers riding up front. Sudden* ly he became violent and is reported to have kicked Sheriff Leonard in the back of his neck. He was subdued and was taken to Dosher Memorial Hospital for examination before being placed in jail. Sheriff Leonard entered the hospital for examination, and re mained for treatment. Willis faces trial in Recorder’s court on January 3. Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the week. These hotpt are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's As sociation. HIGH LOW Thursday, December 23, 8:11 A. M. 1:62 A. M 8:60 A. M. 2:32 P. M. Friday, December 24, 8:60 A. M. 2:32 A. M. 8:59 P. M. 3:16 P. M. Saturday, Decembet 26, 9:28 A. M. 3:11 A. M. 9:36 P. M. 3:66 P. M. Sunday, December 26, 10:04 A. M. 3:60 A. M. 10:14 P. M. 4:36 P. M. Monday,/December 27, 10:40 A. M. 4:29 A M. 10:64 P. M. 5:14 P. M. Tuesday, December 28, 11:18 A. M. 5:11 A M. 11:35 P. M. 5:66 P. M. Wednesday, December 29, 11:58 A M. 5:66 A M. 6:40 P. M
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