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Volume 25
No. 30
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SOUTHPORT, N. C- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1966
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Stanley Knowles
President For
Heart Chapter
Stanley Knowles of Shallotte
has been named the 1966 Bruns
wick County Heart Fund Associa
tion president by the North Caro
lina Heart Association.
Knowles, a popular WVCB
radio disc-jockey, accepts the
first presidency of the county as
sociation. Previously, there has
been only a chairman to carry on
the drive during the month of
February.
The North Carolina Heart As
sociation’s 1965 campaign was
the first state Heart Fund effort
in the nation to report a record
financially and the Heart Fund re
ceipts exceeded those of any other
voluntary health agency in North
Carolina, said Knowles.
“At present rates, about 90
million living Americans will die
of heart and blood vessel dis
ease, according to Knowles. Let
us help prevent these tragedies
by giving generously to the Heart
Fund.”
Members of the Brunswick
Heart Association are preparing
for the 1966 "Hope for Hearts”
crusade—year-long educational
effort coordinated by the North
Carolina Heart Association, of
which the local heart group is a
part.
Brunswick county grangfaibgiigr
and great-grandfathers
invited as special guests at the
New Year’s Day ceremony on top
of North Carolina’s famous
Grandfather Mountain, which was
renamed “Great-Grandfather
Mountain”, in their honor.
The mountain, near Linville,
was the subject of an "honorary
rechristening” by the North
Carolina Heart Association on
January 1— which was named
as "Great-Grandfathers Day” in
the Tar Heel state. According
to Knowles the purpose of the
New Year’s renaming ceremony
was to call public attention
throughout the state to the many
great-grandfathers who are alive
today as a result of progress in
public health practice and cardlo
— vascular medicine. He pointed
out that it has been estimated
that more than one-third of all
human beings ever to reach the
age of 80—since the beginning
of recorded history—are alive
today.
One of the objectives of the
Brunswick Heart Association’s
programs is prevention of heart
disease. Heavy emphasis will
be placed during the year by the
local heart group and other
member divisions of the North
Carolina and American Heart
Associations on the important
relationship between the fight
against heart disease and “the
great - grandfatherhood and
great-grand motherhood we all
look forward to,” said Knowles.
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Brief Bits Of
NEWS'
RETURNS HOME
The Rev. L. D. Hayman, who
has been a patient at Dosher Me
morial Hospital for the past week,
returned home Tuesday to
continue his convalescence.
ANNUAL MEETING
The annual business meeting
and election of officers of the
Winnabow Volunteer Fire De
partment, Inc. will be held Sat
urday at the fire station in Win
nabow at 8 p. m.
OUT OF HOSPITAL
Prince O’Brien, retired South
port banker, is out of the hospital
as a patient and is back at work
in the office of that institution
as acting administrator after be
ing on the sick list for several
weeks.
DEAN’S LIST
Miss Barbara Jeanette
Knowles, daughter of A. S. Know
les of Bolivia, has been named
to the Dean’s List at Wilming
ton College for the fall quar
ter. Miss Knowles is a graduate
of Bolivia High School and is
a member of the Wilmington
College Chorus.
COLLEGE NIGHT
Juniors and seniors at the eight
high schools in Brunswick county
will attend college night ex
ercises at Wilmington College
next Wednesday night from 7 to
9 o’clock.
Each school will arrange to
have its activity bus make the
trip to take students to this pro
gram, and parents are urged to
encourage their college-bound
boys and girls to attend.
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Ferry At Price Creek Slip
ARRIVES—This is the Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry, which is now tied up at Price
Creek near Southport, waiting to be placed in use later this month on regular runs
across the lower Cape Fear River. No definite date has been announced for inaugur
ating this service.
Ferry Arrives
At Southport
^Friday Night
The Southport-Fort Fisher
ferryboat arrived at her slip at
Price Creek Friday night, and
a good crowd of Southport people
were on hand to greet her at the
end of her two-day voyage from
Cedar Island.
Making the trip with Captain
Preston Bryant were Engineer
Fred Barnhill, Hobson Gray and
R. J. Hardin, Pilot Terry Moore
and a second engineer came down
on this trip.
Also aboard for the last day of
the trip was Roy Stevens, di
rector of the Brunswick County
Resources Development Com
mission, who wrote a detailed
account of the trip. (See Page 8)
A short time before the ferry
arrived a dense fog covered the
area, but the vessel is radar
equipped and had no trouble com
ing into her berth.
A large number of people vis
ited the site of the ferry slip on
Saturday and Sunday and learned
that the first official trip prob
ably will not take place until the
latter part of this month. Some
work remains to be completed on
docking facilities on the Fort
Fisher side.
No official announcement has
been made, but plans have been
discussed for some kind of spe
cial observance on the day the
ferry makes her first run across
the river. More information will
be given on this as soon as plans
are completed.
Students Take
Part In Seminar
When classes resumed at the
colleges throughout the state on
January 3, at least twelve stu
dents returned with pride, con
fident that their vacation had not
only been a time for visiting
with relatives and friends, but
that they had been ambassadors
of good will for their respective
schools.
On December 21 graduates of
Brunswick County High School
spent two hours with the present
juniors and seniors, pointing out
the steps one should take in
making preparations for entering
and remaining in college.
This seminar was helpful in
crystalizing the thinking and
planning of these college bound
students. Information given was
timely, accurate, and on the level
most understood by high school
students. Each former graduate
stressed the fact that study habits
would have to change and keeping
up with social engagements would
be secondary if a student expect
ed to stay in school.
Participants in the discussion
were Joseph Douglas, Norris
Full wood, Joyce Galloway, Percy
Gore, Charles Jones and La
verna Joyner of A. & T. Col
lege; Jennifer Gore, North Car
olina College at Durham; Caro
lyn Gore, Winston-Salem State
College; William Davis, Fayette
ville State College; William Har
grove, Shaw University; Inez
Hankins, Durham Business Col
lege; and Minnie Ruth Baker,
Civella Beauty College, Raleigh.
Norris Full wood also commented
on requirements at Howard Uni
versity, having spent his fresh
man year there.
Members of the faculty and
students are very appreciative to
these graduates and wish for them
success in their chosen endeav
ors.
Graduates Seek
More Education
North Carolina public schools
graduated their largest class in
the Spring of 1965 and 51.81--per
cent of these young men and wom
en are continuing their education
beyond high school as compared
to 49.02 percent of the 1964
graduates.
The annual Follow-Up Survey
of North Carolina High School
Graduates, just released by the
Statistical Division of the State
Deparment of Public Instruction,
reveals that of the 67,401 students
receiving high school diplomas in
1965 a total of 20,776 enrolled
in four-year colleges; 4,893 en
rolled in junior colleges; and
9,356 enrolled in business, nurs
ing and trade schools.
The survey reveals a signifi
cant increase in attendance at
junior colleges and at trade and
business schools with a slight
percentage decline in attendance
at senior colleges. The per
centages increased for junior
colleges from 5.86 in 1964 to
7.26 and from 12.05 to 13.73
percent for trade and business
schools. The decline in number
of graduates entering senior, or
four-year, colleges was from
31.11 percent in 1964, when 16,
520 of the 53,106 graduates en
rolled, to 30.82 percent.
While 88 of the 169 school ad
ministrative units in the State
reported a percentage loss in
senior college enrollment among
their 1965 graduating classes,
39 of the 88 reported an increase
in both junior college and trade
and business school enrollment.
Twenty-five reported a gain in
junior college enrollment only;
15 reported an increase in trade
and business school enrollment
only; and nine units showed small
declines in all three areas.
Thirty-three units had a gain in
all three areas and 21 showed
a gain in both senior and junior
college enrollments.
The percentage of 1965 high
school graduates entering the
military service declined from
4.05 percent in 1964 to 3.76
percent, representing 2,532
Graduates going directly into
gainful employment totaled 19,
457, or 28.87 percent compared
to 30.28 percent of the 1964
graduates. Those for whom the
school units were unable to ac
count totaled 10,487, or 15.56
percent.
Of the 169 school units in the
State, 74 showed half or more of
their 1965 graduates as continu
ing their education and 22 of
these reported 50 percent or
more entering junior or senior
colleges. As in the past, the
new survey figures indicate that
the larger the school the higher
the percentage of graduates en
tering college. In graduating
classes of over 100 students,
43.45 percent entered college;
in graduating classes of under
100, only 29.91 percent went on to
college.
In 1960-61 when the 1965
graduates were entering the
eighth grade their class totaled
103,160 students. This means
that 65.34 percent of this eighth
grade went on to graduation and
33.86 percent of the eighth
graders are now continuing their
education beyond high school. It
is these percentages that educa
tors wish most to see increase.
In 1964 the graduation class*
represented 61.28 percent of the
1959-60 eighth grade with 35.50
percent of the eighth graders
continuing their education be
yond high school.
There has been a great deal
of improvement in North Carolina
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Award Contract
For Dredging
A contract was awarded this
(Wednesday) afternoon to the
American Dredging Co. of Phil
adelphia for the channel
deepening project on the Cape
Fear river. Amount of the suc
cessful bid was $3,852,000.
The project calls for the re
moval of about 11-million cubic
yards of material as the river
channel is deepened to 40-feet
across the bar and 38-feet to
Wilmington.
The contractor indicated Ittiat
he planned to commence work
within 30 days, probably on the
down-river end of the project.
Funeral Rites
Here Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs.
Lucille Young Christian, 62, were
conducted Tuesday at 2 p. m. from
Trinity Methodist Church in
Southport by the Rev. W. A. Sea
well, pastor of Grace Methodist
Church in Wilmington and the
Rev. W. S. Davenport of South
port.
Mrs. Christian was a former
resident of Southport, where her
husband was a former cashier
of the Peoples United Bank. The
family moved to Wilmington about
20 years ago. She resided at
2719 Monroe St., Wilmington.
She died at James Walker Me
morial Hospital, Saturday night,
after a long illness. She is sur
vived by her husband, J. G.
Christian; her mother, Mrs. J. H.
Young of Savannah, Ga.; two sons,
Jack C. Christian, Gastonia and
Joe Young Christian of Long
Beach; a brother, D. B. Young,
St. Augustine, Fla.; three sis
ters, Mrs. Estelle Sunday,
Athens, Ga., Mrs. R. B. Thomp
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Development Of
Ports Showing
Steady Growth
The North Carolina State Ports
Authority completed one of the
most successful years in its
sixteen-year history. The re
sults of planning and promotion
have exceeded the fondest dreams
of the men in the General As
sembly who complied with then
Governor Kerr Scott’s request to
finance deepwater portterminals
at Morehead City and Wilming
ton.
Now being completed at Wil
mington is a 1200-foot dock ex
tension, and plans are under way
for a new transit shed of one
hundred twenty thousand square
feet.
The Southport Boat Harbor was
dedicated in May, and Governor
Moore journeyed to Wilmington
in September to dedicate a $600,
000 terminal office building, con
taining enough port related
tenants to amortize the invest
ment over a reasonable period.
The administrative offices of
the Port Authority are located
here, and at Morehead City a
new warehouse was completed
containing 96,000 sq. fi.
The Morehead City port
terminal is enjoying its finest
export season in history. An
estimated 140 milli on pounds or
more will leave the docks at
Morehead City this calendar
year. In 1964 gross revenue for
Wilmington and Morehead City
was $1,647,000. An estimated
gross revenue figure for the
calendar year 1965 by R, A.
De Vane, Comptroller, is $1,
653,420. This presumably is
a conservative estimated figure,
and is probably the lowest in
crease percentage in the last
eight years, but the first two
months of the year’s operations
at both ports were at a stand
still due to the maritime strike,
which affected the entire eastern
seaboard.
Total tonnages at Wilmington
were up from 455,000 to 486,
000 estimated. However, the
number of ships calling, which
wf-s sieo affected by the strike,
dropped from 451 to 417.
At Morehead City the same was
true, where total tonnage rose
from 418,000 to 463,000 esti
mated, while ships sailing
dropped from 349 to 336. When
military tonnages is added to the
Morehead City figure, the number
of ships calling is increased,
and the congestion on the docks
is quite apparent at certain
periods of military crisis.
Another first for the year was
the arrival at Morehead City of
an aircraft carrier, and tine year
began at Wtlrnington with a visit
from the nuclear ship Savannah.
At Morehead City, the Gover
nor ret ently announced prepara
tion; tV; a '1/2 million dollar
bulk handling facility, and the
General Assen. Iy of 1965 gave
the Ports Authority an ap
propriation of $4-1/2-million icr
a westward dock expansion at
Morehead City and another ware
house at Wilmington.
When all of these capital im
provements are added together,
and before depreciation, the total
investment in the two North Caro
lina terminals will be above$30
mJllion. The bulk handling facil
ity at Morehead City and the
heavy life and general cargo pic
ture at Wilmington should, by
1968. be producing two to three
million dollars annually in rev
enues and, combining the ton
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Time And Tide
In our issue of January 8, 1936, announcement was made of the
Supremo Court decision bringing an end to the Agricultural Ad
justment Administration. Announcement from the office of the U. S.
Army District Engineers in Wilmington reported that the final link of
the Intracoastal waterway was nearing completion.
One of the pioneer President’s Birthday Dances was scheduled
for the recreation hall at the CCC Camp; arrangements had been
made for the sale of automobile license plates here in Southport;
and Southport had been excited over the false report of the presence
in a local barber shop of one of the ten most wanted criminals in the
United States.
On the front page of The Pilot for January 8, 1941, there was a
full length picture of Mr. and Mrs. J. Melville Broughton, and the
caption announced plans for his inauguration on the following Tues
day as chief executive of North Carolina. A landmark in the Town
Creek section had been lost when fire destroyed the Lindsey Walker
home. Bald Head Lighthouse was back in use, this time as the location
fnr rnHin
An upstate visitor got bored while in a deer stand and climbed a tree
to gather some pine cones for his wife. He was interrupted in this har
vest by the appearance of a big buck passing near the base of his
tree. He tried to jump on top of the animal, but missed. A few
moments later, at the next stand, the hunter—who was not collect
ing pine cones—used his gun and didn’t miss. Then all the hunters
pitched into help their friend collect material for dried arrange
ments for his wife.
In The Pilot for January 2, 1946, there appeared the announcement
that Lt. Col. R. I. Mintz, recently returned from duty with the U. S.
Air F orce in Europe, would be a candidate for the State Senate in the
coming primary election. Dredging operations had begun on the
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Volume Of Poetry
Tells Of Southport
“The Inheritance Of My Fath
ers”, a collection of poems
by Dorothy Bell Kauffman, might
well be called a labor of love.
Surely it was a deep feeling of
love for her home town and the
people in it that prompted the
Southport native to weave these
whimsical, nostalgic pieces that
will charm the reader interest
of folks who know and share her
love for this community.
And it was love that prompted
her husband to decide soon after
her untimely death last year
that a fitting memorial would
be the publication of some of
her favorite poems.
There will be many readers
who will thank them both for what
they have done to capture some
thing of the atmosphere of peace
ful living that seems to per
meate this place where she grew
up and learned to love its peo
ple.
Not everyone who likes to read
likes to read poetry, but this
poses no problem for those who
pick up a copy of “Inheritance.”
The author takes the reader gent
ly but firmly by the hand and
leads him into the rythmn and
rhyme of verse with introduc
tions in prose. This makes po
etry painless for those who are
prejudiced against this literary
form, and it does so without
DOROTHY BELL KAUFFMAN
offending those who favor ex
pression in verse.
If this suggests that the volume
is unprofessional in its context,
don’t let it fool you. There's
good writing in it, both in the
first section which deals with
Southport and memories of early
years; and in the second part,
“Sonnets For The Space Age.”
It is this first section that will
have its strongest appeal tor
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Sheriff Leonard
Seeking Re-election
SHERIFF E. V. LEONARD
Electricity Is
Key To Salvage
By BOB JONES
The MODERN GREECE, a
three-masted schooner loaded to
the gunwales with precious
contraband of war, sailed down
the coast of North Carolina on a
foggy morning in May of 1862.
Her course was set for the inlet
to the Cape Fear River and the
docks at Wilmington, but her
fate was a watery grave 300
yards off shore, less than a
mile from the Inlet.
With her cargo intact, the
MODERN GREECE sank in five
fathoms of water, and begac to
settle deep into the shifting .,ands
beneath the waves off . e Caro
lina coast. Like many of the dar
ing merchantmen who attempted
to sneak past the Federal block
ade of Wilmington, she fell vic
tim to Federal guns.
One hundred years later, in
March of 1962, a coastal storm
swept away the sands of the ocean
floor, which had so carefully
concealed the cargo of the
MODERN GREECE for a cen
tury.
The hull of the ill-fated schoon
er contained tons of weapons,
medical supplies, carpenters’
and mechanics’ tools, cooking
utensils, and ingots of lead and
tin. The cargo had been destined
for the ill-supplied Confederate
States.
The discovery and subsequent
salvage of the cargo launched
one of the world’s most extensive
research programs in the
preservation of artifacts recov
ered from sea water. A century’s
growth of barnacles, corrosion,
and the destructive forces of the
salty Atlantic Ocean had conceal
ed the origin and nature of the
items.
Armed only with ideas and the
will to search, officials of the
North Carolina State Depart
ment of Archives and History
established a preservation lab
oratory at Fort Fisher, and began
to seek answers to the problem
of saving the artifacts. They had
no one to look to for help, for
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Sheriff L. V. Leonard, now
completing his twelfth year as
head of the Brunswick County
Sheriff’s Department, announced
this week that he will be a candi -
date for the Democratic nomina
tion to succeed himself in this
office.
This announcement is the
second major political develop
ment in connection with the forth
coming primary and general
election. In November S. Bunn
Frink, Shallotte attorney, an
nounced that he will be a candi
date for the Democratic nomina
tion for House of Representa
tives.
There is a special session
of the legislature being called
next week to work out problems
of reapportionment which will
have an important bearing upon
the future of Brunswick county
with regard to legislative repre
sentation. Representative Odell
Williamson will attend that ses
sion.
Sheriff Leonard was first
elected to the office which he now
holds in 1950. Failing health
caused him to withdraw from
the race for the Democratic
nomination in 1954, but in 1958
he again was the successful
candidate in both the primary
and general election. He re
peated in 1962, and is now com
pleting this term.
Sheriff and Mrs. Leonard now
make their home at Long Beach.
Chairman Hits
Litterbuggers
State Highway Commission
Cnairman J. M. Hunt, Jr. today
called for stricter enforcement
of North Carolina’s anti-litter
laws and an overall drive to clean
up the State’s roads.
In a letter to Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles A. Pilston God
win, Jr., Hunt asked for the co
operation of the Department of
Motor Vehicles in the program.
He specifically asked Godwin to
direct the Highway Patrol to give
the state stricter enforcement of
the anti-litter laws.
Hunt said he is appaled at the
amount of litter strewn along the
sides of primary, secondary, in
terstate and urban system streets
across the state.
The highway Commission
Chairman said Highway Depart
ment figures show the clean up
of the rubbish tossed from cars
along the state’s roads could cost
as much as $4,000,000 a year.
He said that highway maintenance
crews pick up the litter when they
can and that spot checks have
shown it costs as much as $60
per mile on rural primary high
ways and as much as $227 a
m'le on expressways.
Hunt said, “I think North Caro
lina has good anti-litter laws and
what I’m asking of you (Mr. God
win) is that you request our High
way Patrolmen to give us
stricter enforcement of these
laws. Ibelievethisnewemphasis
on enforcement.. .along with an
education and information pro
gram program.. .can go a long
way in getting our citizens to
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A
Donations For
Christmas Seal
Sales Mounting
Brunswick County has contri
buted to date, $703 to the Christ
mas Seal Sale being conducted
by the SENC TB Ass’n for the
six southeastern counties. Total
Seal Sale reached $160,000 on
December 31. Brunswick’s total
last year was $780 and Admiral
Ellis, overall chairman, and Dr.
M, H. Rourk, honorary chairman
for Brunswick county, were con
fident that this amount would be
exceeded this year.
Both chairmen noted that
Brunswick had received more
than it contributed last year -
scholarships for nurses, Tine
tests for tuberculin testing in both
the 1st and 9th grades in all
county schools. Out of 914 tests
made, one active and two suspi
cious cases of tuberculosis have
been found. Two have been sent
to the sanitorium and contacts
of all those who had a positive
reaction to the test are being
asked to come in for test and
x-ray.
Miss Lucy L. Nash, executive
director of the association, said
that a number of contacts to posi
tive reactors had been x-rayed
in the chest clinic in Wilmington
department in Southport. She also
noted that, although first graders
were tested last year, both first
and ninth grade students have had
educational literature for every
child, parent and teacher.
Social Security
Rates Changing
The social security contribu
tion deducted from workers pay
beginning in 1966 will be slightly
higher than the contribution rate
that had been scheduled to go into
effect January 1, Albert P.
Mason, Social Security District
Manager in Wilmington, an
nounced.
The social security contribu
tion rate for employees and em
ployers had been scheduled to
rise from 3-5/8 percent, in effect
1963 through 1965, to 4-1/8 per
cent beginning January 1, 1966,
Mason continued.
To help finance changes in the
law, enacted last summer—in
cluding a program of hospital
insurance for people 65 and over,
a 7 percent increase in cash
benefits, and other important im
provements in the social security
program, the contribution rate
has been raised to 4.2 percent
for 1966, instead of the pre
viously scheduled 4-1/8 percent.
Of the 4.2 percent contribution
rate, 0.35 percent (35 cents outof
each $100 of taxable wages) goes
to finance hospital insurance
benefits.
In addition, the amount of an
nual earnings subject to the tax
contribution and creditable to
ward social security benefits is
raised from $4,800 to $6,600.
Mason gave two examples of
how the contribution rate change
would affect workers. The work
er earning $77 a week, or $4,000
a year, has been paying about
$2.80 a week as his social
security contribution. Beginning
in January he will be paying 44
cents more per week - $2.97
for retirement, survivors, and
disability insurance benefits, and
27 cents toward the paid-up hos
pital insurance he will have
when he is 65 and retired.
Someone earning $127 a week,
about $6,600 for the year, contri
buted $4.60 a week in social
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Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These hoipt are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Port
Pilot through the courtesy
at the Cape Fear Pilot’s As
sociation.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, January 6,
6:67 A. M. 0:46 A. M.
7:21 P. M. 1:40 P. M.
Friday, January 7,
7:51 A. M. 1:40 A. M.
8:15 P. M. 2:28 P. M.
Saturday, January 8,
8:45 A. M. 2:34 A. M.
9:09 P. M. 3:16 P. M.
Sunday, January 0,
9:33 A. M. 3:22 A. M.
9:03 P. M. 4:04 P. M.
Monday, January 10,
10:27 A. M. 4:16 A. M.
10:57 P. M. 4:58 P. M.
Tuesday, January 11,
11:21 A. M. 5:10 A. M.
5:46 P. M.
Wednesday, January 12,
6:10 A. M.
6:40 P. M.
12:15 P. M.