THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Brunswick County
/plume 25
No. 29
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 <of the Academic
Board (left) and Mrs. Adams. (US Army Photo)
Driver Course
In Wilmington
A college-level course lor high
school driver Instructors will
begin a 10-week program in Wil
mington early next month.
Offered by the Extension Divi
sion of East Carolina College,
he course will Involve three
sour classroom sessions on eight
Saturdays plus 12 clock hours of
irlving by each enrollee on at
east two more Saturdays. It
vill begin Saturday, Jan. 8.
The course, Driver Educa
lon 300, is designed “to help
lualify public school teachers
is instructors in high school pro
grams of driver training,’’ ac
:ordlng to Dr. David J. Middle
on, director of the Extension
division.
It offers three quarter-hours
)f undergraduate credit only and
:annot be applied toward teacher
:ertificate renewal.
Students must preregister for
he course by mailing a check
tor $27, payable to East Caro
ina College, to “Driver Educa
;ion Course,’’ Extension Divi
sion, ECC, P. O. Box 2727,
Greenville, N. C. Necessary
Four Scheduled
For Induction
Four Brunswick county young
men were inducted Into the Army
during the month of December.
They were William E. Rabon,
Lorenza Bryant, Terah C. Mit
chell and Jerry E. Jackson.
Only six registrants were
examined during the month.
A call for 30 for examinations
and seven for induction has been
scheduled for January 13.
registration materials will then
be sent to students by return
mail.
Final registration and the first
class meeting are scheduled at
9 a. m. Saturday, Jan. 8, at
Hemenway Hall, Fifth and Chest
nut Streets.
Samuel P. Hudson, regular Ex
tension Division faculty member,
is instructor for the course. Re
quired for the registration and a
state driver’s license and a satis
factory driving record.
Dr. Middleton pointed out that
a $3 late registration fee must
be charged if a student registers
after the first class meeting.
He added that registration will
not be allowed later than the
second Saturday morning ses
sion.
Tide Table
Folio wine to the tide taHc
(or Southport during- the
week. Tfejeee hoipo ore tp>
proxtmoteiy correct and won
forntshed The State Port
Pilot through the eontop
ot the Ctope Fear Pilot's Am
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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.