THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County /plume 25 No. 29 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. G WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 29, 1965 5f A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Discuss Forestry Project CONFER—Mrs. O. G. Holcomb is shown here talking with County Forest Ranger Kenneth Johnson about the pine planting that is to be a major project for the Holcomb family as it seeks to put idle farmland to work. Forestry Program Idle Acres Go To Work In November, 1962, Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Holcomb of White ville were the victims of a large forest fire near Ash In Bruns wick county. This fire damaged and destroyed approximately 500 acres of valuable woodlands and Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb lost 60 acres. This 60 acres was clear-cut In 1963, due to the heavy fire damage. Twelve acres was pre pared for planting In pine seed lings in 1964. The remaining 48 acres was disked In preparation for planting pines In 1965 and will be planted In 1965-66. Although Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb received partial assist ance under the Agricultural Con servation Program in cost sharing of the land preparation and planting expenses, much time and effort was needed to re forest this burned timber land. The 60 acres of productive tim ber, destroyed by fire in a short time, will take several years to reach the potential that it had prior to the fire, but Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb are working to ward the future In re-establish ing their forest land. It has been found that abandoned cropland and cutover tracts, left for an extended time, requires a considerable amount of time, effort and money to prepare it for crop planting again, Shepherd observed. When forest trees are planted In idle acres, they are an invest ment which accumulates Interest each day they grow. These trees Increase the value of the land, general appearance of the tract, and eventually produce a mone tary return as weU as enhance the appearance of the community. There are known Instances where parents plant trees to be used In assisting their children through college, Shepherd said. (Continued On Page Two! LBrief Bits Of | ■NEWSJ NEW YEARS EVE A watch night service will be held Friday at Trinity Methodist church with the Rev. William S. Davenport in charge. LISTING STARTS Tax listing has begun in Bruns wick and" a schedule- o f appolnt menls lor each township is pub lished in the advertising section of today's Pilot. HOLIDAY VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kenney of Phoenix, Arizona, are spend ing the holidays In Southport with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gilbert. NEW YEARS PARTY A dinner dance sponsored by the Long Beach Fire Department will be held New Years Eve at Tranquil Harbor Restaurant. It will start at 8 o’clock and will feature live music. WATCHNIGHT SERVICE Watchnlght will be observed at the Southport Baptist Church New Year’s Eve from 10:30 p. m. to 12 midnight. A film in color, “Road To Endor,’’ will be shown and a period of worship and prayer will be held at the mid night hour. The Training Union department of the church is spon the service. The public is \i7 Southport Oranges NATIVE—This is a Satsuma orange tree in the yard of Dr. and Mrs. N. M. Hornstein on Moore street in South port. Not only did the tree bear about 40 tangerine-like oranges this winter, but the fruit was quite tasty. Farm Bureau 2 Officers For Year Inducted New officers and new mem bers of the board of directors of the Brunswick County Farm Bureau were installed Tuesday night by Paul Shackleford of Fre mont, during the regular monthly session. President, Ira L. Chadwick, vice-president Harold C. Robin son, and secretary-treasurer Mrs. Oulda H, Hewett received charges from Shackleford on duties of their respective offices and goals to be reached during the calendar year. Board members installed were Billy Wade Russ of Shallotte, Homer Holden of Bolivia, Lonnie Evans of Ash, LeGwln Vamamof Supply, A. W. Clemmons of Bolivia and Angle B. Owens of Leland. Holidays Hit This Weekend Business activity In Southport and Brunswick county is due to come to another skidding halt this weekend as New Years Day falls on Saturday. City and county employees will be off on Friday in observance of this holiday. The financial institutions, the Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co. and the Security Savings & Loan at their offices at Southport and Shallotte, will be closed just on Saturday. Many businesses will remain open as usual on Saturday. This week brings an end to the holiday period for school girls and boys of all ages. The public schools reopen on Monday as do most of the colleges in the State whose students have been at home for the holidays. Lighting Contest Winners Named Mr. and Mrs. Albert Russ won first place In the outdoor Christ mas tree lighting contest spon sored this year by the Southport Garden Club. Second place went to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Weeks. For over-all decorations the first prize went to Mr. and Mrs. James C. Bowman, second prize to Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Potter. First prize for prettiest door way went to Mrs. Ruth Harrington with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Willing second. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver won first place for most original dec oration. Dr .Wayland To Conduct Course January Bible Study Week will be observed In the Southport Bap tist Church next week with Dr. John Wayland of the faculty of Southeastern Baptist Theologi cal Seminary at Wake Forest as the guest teacher for adults and young people. He will be teach ing the Gospel of John. Other teachers for the sev eral Sunday School departments are: Intermediates, Afton Smith; Juniors, Mrs. Ressle Whatley; Primaries, Mrs. Susie Carson; Beginners, Mrs. Ozalia Phelps, Nursery (3 year olds), Mrs. Ber nice Troll. There will be a nurs ery provided for children under three years of age. The courses of study will begin on Sunday night at 6:30 o’clock and continue until 8:30 p. m. The schedule for Monday through Wednesday nights Is from 7 to 9 o’clock. In addition to the eve ning studies, January 3-5, there will be a morning period of highlights from the Gospel of John led by Dr. Wayland from 10 to 10:30 o’clock Monday through Wednesday. Street Paving For Cemetery Is Proposed On December 2 a questionnaire was mailed from the city man agers office in Southport to all owners of lots in North wood Cemetery on the subject of paving driveways on a cooperative basis. The questionnaire read as fol lows: "If you are interested in the paving of driveways in North wood Cemetery on a cooperative basis we would appreciate you in indicating your decision on the bottom of the form and returning the same to us. First, the cost of the work will have to be borne by the individual lot owners, as the city has no appropriation for this project. Second, should we be able to work out an arrange ment with the property owners all funds will have to be paid in advance, as the contractor will not extend credit. Third, the price has been figured in the basis of 100 percent participation at $1.20 per running foot. This means a lot 15’ x 18’ would cost the property owner 15 x $1.20 or $18. If a person owns two lots of the above size it would be twice this amount. There are some end lots that are only 12 feet, thus this would be 12 x $1.20 or $14.40. The pavement would be swalled out in the cen ter, to allow the water to run down the center of each paved driveway.” One hundred and thirty of these questionnaires were mailed out. Only 29 have been returned. Of the 29, 26 have indicated they are interested in the project, three have indicated they are not Interested. People who received the questionnaires are asked to return them indicating their in terest. Name Changes Duties Remain Effective Jan. 1, the Division of Commercial Fisheries of the State Department of Conserva tion and Development will by act of the 1965 General Assembly be renamed the Division of Com merical and Sports Fisheries. A unit of the C&D Department since 1927, the division is organized Into three sections (ad ministration, 7 employees; law enforcement, 41 employees; and research and development^ 5 em ployees) and operates from a main office in Raleigh In the State Education Building and a field of fice In Morehead City at the old base on Bogue Sound west of the city. Dr. David A. Adams, who car ries the title of State Fisheries Commissioner, heads this Im portant agency of State govern ment. Duties of the division personnel are numerous. It is entrusted with stewardship of the State's marine and estuarine resources. It enforces fisheries laws enacted by the General Assembly and regulations approved and adopted by the State Board of Conserva tion and Development. It carries out a program of planting oyster shells and relay ing polluted oysters Into clean waters. It publishes a quarterly newsletter sent to all licensed coramerlcal fishermen and other Interested persons, reviews all coastal alteration projects and recommends means by which (Continued On Page Pour) Heavy lines indicate proposed House districts. Figures show the number of representatives the districts would hove County’s Part In Reapportionment | Brunswick County’s represen tation in the Legislature will not be appreciably altered if a proposed reapportionment plan is adopted during a special session slated for January 10. Reapportionment and redis tricting of the State Senate has been ordered by the Federal Courts on the basis of the 1960 population census calls for one senator for each 91,123 persons with a 15 per cent leeway. Under the proposal formulated last week the counties of Co lumbus, Bladen and Brunswick would still compose Senate Dis trict 15 and share one senator. Columbus and Brunswick com bined would have two Represen tatives. The reapportionment plan will effect increased representation In the more populous counties while some less populous coun ties will lose a degree of power. A spokesman for the House committee on reapportionment stated Monday during the an nouncement of the proposal, “The committee wishes to emphasize that this does not purport to be a final plan and It urges the people and other members of the General Assembly to make suggestions as to changes they think would improve the plan.*' The high percentage of rural representation was the principal factor that brought the Federal Court order for a sweeping re apportionment of the legisla ture's seats. Ultimately, the most populous counties—such as Mecklinburg and Wake—will have the loudest voices in the House. 1 These are the 33 Senate districts proposed. Figures in circles represent the number of senators allotted each district Ferry Expected Here On Friday The crew of the Southport-Fort Fisher ferry left this morning for Cedar Island to bring the vessel here where she will be tied up at the slip at Price Creek. She will remain here until sometime the latter part of Jan uary, when docking facilities on the Fort Fisher side are ex pected to be completed. There will be further announcement re garding the schedule for com mending operations across the Cape Fear river. The boat will be brought here with a crew of four men. Preston Bryant is captain, and Fred Barn hill is engineer. Also making the trip will be Hobson Gray and R. J. Hardin. The trip to Southport will be gin Thursday morning, with plans to tie up overnight at Bogus Island Ferry Slip. The run to Southport will resume Friday morning, and the vessel is ex pected to arrive here late that afternoon. <1huTl litiuTf itn mi » m i Time And Tide Register of Deeds R. I. Mintz was president of the Brunswick County Young Democrats Club back in 1935, and preparations were being made for the Jackson Day Dinner early in the New Year. This news was in The Pilot for January 1, 1936. The men haden boats were still at work, and a casualty during the pre ceedlng week was the loss of a purse seine when one of the boats of the Captain capsized. Inmates at the Brunswick County Home were enjoying a new radio that had been installed during the Christmas season for their pleasure; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Willing had purchased the J. D. ! Sutton home and had moved in; and December had earned a reputa tion for being a bad winter month. Judge R. Hunt Parker was to ! preside over the January term of Superior Court. ! Five years later, and once more The Pilot came out on New Year’s Day—1941. in contrast to the December of 5 years ago, I the month just past had set something of a record for warm < weather, with the mercury going above 60-degrees on 18 days dur ing the 31-day period. Orton Plantation had made Life Magazine i with a spread on an Old Fashioned Christmas Party. i Judge R. Hunt Parker was coming here to preside over the forth- i coming January term of Superior Court; a picture of the late Aunt Mary Ann Galloway had appeared on the front page of The State Magazine; and the Register of Deeds office had reported a rush for marriage licenses. 1 The time was December 26, 1945, the end of the year that saw the end of World war IL Returning servicemen were looking with envy at some of the small craft owned by the Navy and Coast Guard, and had hopes of acquiring some of these vessels for their fishing and shrimping operations. A front page story reported (Continued On Page Pour) mmmmsmmmmmmmmmm tMmwmmmmmm —-mf- ■ - ■ - ™Tmrw Honored At West Point PROMOTION— Lieutenant Colonel Charles M. Adams, Assistant to the Dean at the U. S. Military Academy, has the silver oak leaves of his new rank pinned on by Brigadier General John R. Jannarone, Dean proxtmoteiy correct and won forntshed The State Port Pilot through the eontop ot the Ctope Fear Pilot's Am •MtittUL HIGH LOW Thursday, December SO, 0:24 A. M. 6:47 A. M. 12:44 P. M. 7:20 P. M. Friday, December SI, 1:17 A. M. 7:46 A. M. 1:36 P. M. 8:20 P. M. Saturday, January 1, 2:15 A. M. 8:52 A. M. 2:33 P. M. 9:16 P. M. Sunday, January 2, 3:15 A. M. 9:52 A. M. 3:33 P. M. 10:10 P. M. Monday, January S, 4:15 A. M. 10:52 A. M. 4:33 P. M. 11:04 P. M. Tuesday, January 4, 5:09 A. M. 11:52 A. M. 5:27 P. M. 11:58 P. M. Wednesday, January 5, 6:03 A. M. 12:46 A. M. 6:27 P. M.