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Volume 25
No. 31
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SOUTHPORT, N. C- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1966
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Officers Of Shallotte Masonic Lodge
INSTALLED—The following officers of Shallotte Lodge No. 727, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, were installed Friday night: Left to right, front row, Johnnie Nance
Tyler; John H. Gore, Treasurer, Parker D. Phillips, Senior Warden; L. Bailey Russ,
Master; Arthur W. Bellamy, Junior Warden; Michael Powell, Secretary; back row, Dr.
M. H. Rourk, Junior Deacon; Herman S. Love, Steward; Elrich Y. Hickman, Steward;
Steve F. Becky, Senior Deacon; and Harvey A. Brown, Chaplain. (Baldwin Studio
Photo).
Three County
Teachers On
Special Duty
Brunswick county was repre
sented at the North Carolina Ad
vancement School in Winston
Salem on Wednesday when three
local teachers registered there
and are teaching during the winter
1966 session. They are Kenneth
Bellamy, Brunswick County High
School, and Van Walker Gallo
way and Alvin Leon McCoy, Lin
coln High School. The School is
now in its second year as a resi
dential research laboratory for
eighth-grade boys of good ability
who haven’t been achieving up to
their potential. Students are nom
inated by their home schools to
attend one of the three-month
sessions and are accompanied by
20 or 30 teachers from the public
school systems. The latter,
called “visiting teachers,” take
an active part in the teaching
program at the School, as well
as participate in seminars and
discussions.
A new schedule will go into ef
fect this session wherein all aca
demic classes will be given
during the morning, with after
noons devoted to individualized
instruction, physical education
and Intramurals. The after
supper hours of from 6:30 -
8 p. m. will offer an enrich
ment program of classes in such
things as art, crafts, shop, camp
ing skills, and music. From 8
9:30 p. m, students will be in
their rooms studying, reading
or talking to their house ad
visors (young men who are as
signed to a group of about 15
students and take responsibility
for these boys during after
school hours). Another Innovation
this session will be the offering
of academic electives on Saturday
mornings. Each boy will be re
quired to sign up for two courses
which will be related to their
regular academic subjects—such
as drama, journalism, lapidary,
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Brief Bits Of J
-NEWSJ
SKATING PARTY
The Brunswick MYF Sub-Dis
trict will sponsor a skating party
Monday night at Shallotte.
BAKE SALE
Members of the Junior MYF
of Trinity Methodist Church will
sponsor a bake sale Saturday
morning next door to the post
office, starting at 9 o’clock.
BENEFIT BARBECUE
Members of the Leland Volun
teer Fire Department will serve
a benefit barbecue dinner Satur
day, starting at noon and lasting
until 8 o’clock. It will be held
at the Fire Station.
BENEFIT SUPPER
The WSCS of Shiloh Methodist
church will sponsor a ham and
chicken supper at the church,
Saturday, beginning 6 p. m.
Homemade pies and cakes will
also be available. Proceeds will
be used for the Church Building
Fund. The public Is Invited. The
church is located on Highway
87, near Maco, at Leland.
Funds Alloted For
War On Poverty
SENCland Community Action,
Inc., the tri-county agency to
fight the war on poverty in Bladen,
Columbus and Brunswick coun
ties, has received a $46,868 in
federal funds to undertake a com
munity action program under the
Economic Opportunity Act of
1964.
The exact amount of the grant
was announced by Sidney H. Wool
ner, acting regional director
of the Office of Economic Oppor
tunity, in a telegram to the or
ganization’s offices in Whiteville.
Chairman of the three-county
group is Brig. Gen. James Glore
(Ret) of Southport and Dr. W. C.
Keith of Elizabethtown is vice
chairman. Dr. Jesse C. Fisher
Jr. of Whiteville is presentofthe
group.
Officials have stated that the
group plans to hire a staff as
soon as possible and to develop
projects to participate in the war'
on poverty.
The staff will include an execu
tive director for the three-county
area and a coordinator for each
of the three counties.
General Glore, who currently
is in Washington on a special
assignment in civilian status for
the U. S. Army, was unavail
able for comment on this latest
development, but Dr. Keith, the
vice chairman, said that the com
mittee will now begin screening
applicants for the job of director.
“We do not intend to be stamped
in this matter, for we consider
it to be of utmost importance to
get a good man,” said Dr. Keith.
Exise Tax Is
Off Phone Bill
The first telephone bills carry
ing the reduced federal pyHco
tax were mailed to Southport
Long Beach area customers this
past weekend. They reflect the
reduction of the federal excise
tax from 10 to three per cent.
The reduction will mean an an
nual savings of about $13,600 for
Southern Bell customers in the
Southport-Long Beach area, H. F.
Kincaid, local manager said.
Telephone customers in Bruns
wick and Columbus Counties will
realize in annual savings about
$107,600.
Kincaid explained that the en
tire benefit from the reduction
will go to the customer. “The
excise taxes on telephone serv
ices will be removed under the
law, which was enacted by the
89th Congress and signed by
President Johnson on June 21
1965. The remaining three per
cent, Kincaid said, will be re
duced by one per cent a year
until the whole tax is eliminated
on January 1, 1969.
“We at Southern Bell are very
happy to see this tax on the way
out,” Kincaid said. “No other
utility service still carries such
a tax.”
Long distance telephone serv
ice has been subject to excise
taxes since 1932, and local serv
ice since 1941, Kincaid said. In
tended first to finance public
works projects and services, and
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ALNETA DIXON
Miss Dixon Is
Woman Of Year
One of the highlights of the
Junior Woman’s Club banquet
was the installation of new of
ficers by Mrs. Charles Blake,
a former member of the club.
Mrs. Blake used the Diamond
Jubilee theme in the installa
tion of Mrs. A. W. Smith, Jr.,
president; Mrs. John Bray, vice
president; Mrs. Jerry Sherrod,
secretary; Mrs. W. C. Jones,
treasurer, and Mrs. Richard
Conrad and Mrs. Joseph Young
publicity co-chairman.
The club decorations consisted
of diamonds in the rough with a
diamond tree (branches full of
glittering jewelry which was sent
to Caswell school for retarded
children for Christmas) being
the center of interest on the
head table.
The annual club woman award,
a silver dish which was given to
the club by Mrs. Betty Duffie,
was presented to Miss Alneta
Dixon by Mrs. Bobby Jones, re
tiring president. Miss Dixon has
served as secretary for two
terms, was co-chairman of 1965
Art Festival; attended the state
convention in Charlotte as a rep
re sentative of her club: worked
untiringly on many committees,
while serving her church as
treasurer, Sunday schoolteach
er, choir member, building com
mittee member and also helping
direct a junior choir.
Superior Court
Convenes Here
A one-week term of Brunswick
county Superior court will con
vene here Monday with Judge
Henry A. McKinnon of Lumber
ton presiding.
Sheriff e. V. Leonard said
Monday that this promises to be
a busy session. “We have four
murder cases to try”, he said.
“I don’t see how we can get
through the entire docket in one
week.”
Defendants in the murder cases
are H. Victor Stanley, Jr., Essie
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Mrs. Hewett Is
Fund Chairman
In Heart Drive
Mrs. Freeman Hewett of Shal
lotte has been named 1966 Heart
Fund Chairman for Brunswick
County according to Stanley
Knowles, president of the Bruns
wick Heart Association.
The new chairman of the local
Heart group’s 1966 fundraising
activities will appoint area com
munity leaders to direct the
various aspects of the annual
Heart Month effort in behalf of
the North Carolina and Ameri
can Heart Associations, of which
the local organization is a divi
sion.
The new chairman pointed out
that heart disease is the leading
cause of death in Brunswick and
that some 22,000 North Caro
linians died last year as a re
sult of cardiovascular disease.
At present death rates, some
10,000 will fall victim to heart
disease, which now results in
more deaths than all other causes
combined.
The annual Heaj; Fund contri
butions support the Heart Asso
ciation’s programs of public
health education, professional in
formation, heart research, com
munity service, and public in
formation, Mrs. Hewett said.
Mrs. Hewett aided the 1965
Heart Chairman, Mrs. \ailiam
Leadford of Shallotte, with the
drive. Also Mrs. Hewett is a
Community 4-H Leader, Secre
tary of the Brunswick County
x in L>uicau auu 10 vex y xii—
terested in the growth of her
community and county.
State Heart Fund chairman for
North Carolina is William C.
Friday of Chapel Hill, president
of the Consolidated University
of North Carolina. National Heart
Fund Chairman is Owen Chea
tham. Chairman of the Board of
Georgia Pacific and a trustee
of Duke University.
Farm Bureau
In New Office
. .
The Brunswick County Farm
Bureau opened a new office in
Shallotte Monday morning, an
nounced president Ira L. Chad
wick this week.
The new office, located on Main
street adjacent to the Shallotte
Jewel Shop, will be open for serv
ices from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.
Monday thru Friday, stated
Chadwick.
All insurance transactions with
hospital, farm, liability wiU
channel through the Farm Bureau
secretary, Mrs. Ouida Hewett.
Many services will now be avail
able for all Farm Bureau mem
bers that could not be handled
before, Chadwick said.
Farm Bureau' members, in
surance agents and prospective
Farm Bureau members are urged
to attend the January meeting
Tuesday night at the new Farm
Bureau office in Shallotte.
Henry Barfield, Farm Mutual
Insurance district manager and
Paul Shackelford of Fremont,
Southeastern Farm Bureau rep
resentative, will be the guest
speakers.
Building Progresses At Brunswick Town
PROGRESS—Workmen have almost completed the brickwork on the visitors center
museum at Brunswick Town, which is expected to be completed in the early spring.
Work on the roof is expected to start next week.
Deep Channel
Project Seen
As Area Boon 1
The award of a $3,852,000
dredging contract made by the
Wilmington Engineer District
last Wednesday to the American
Dredging Company of Phila
delphia, Pa., was called by Colo
nel Beverly C. Snow, Jr., Dis
trict Engineer, “a significant
factor which will further enhance
the growth of the greater Wilm
ington area.”
He pointed out that the Cape
Fear River, which has loomed
big in commerce and history,
first became the responsibility of
the Corps of Engineers in
1829, when the Corps continued
work begun by the State of North
Carolina in 1822. Colonel Snow,
in emphasizing the vast naviga
tion improvements, poinied out
that the controlling depths in what
is now known as Wilmington Har
bor was between 7.5 and 9 feet
in 1853.
Colonel Snow stated that the
work involves deepening the
ocean bar channel to Southport to
40 feet and widening it to 500
feet, with increased widths at
bends, and deepening the 400
foot-wide river channel from
Southport to the foot of Castle
Street in Wilmington to 38 feet,
Including the existing anchorage
basin, with increased widths at
bends. Current channel depths
are 35 and 34 feet, respectively.
The estimated quantity of ma
terial to be removed is 1,400,000
cubic yards of maintenance
dredging and 10,000,000 cubic
yards of new dredging, includ
ing 3,638,000 yards of allowable
overdepth dredging. The work
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Time And Tide
The date was January 15, 1936, and the cenotaph standing In the
Southport cemetery honoring two groups of pilots who were lost at
sea was the subject for an illustrated feature story. Another front
page picture showed the contrast between a stand of timber from
which forest fires had been kept away and with one where fires
had taken their annual toll. News of particular Interest to
folks of the Shallotte area told of plans by Dr. M. H. Rourk to
move to that community for the practice of medicine.
Bad roads had forced the temporary shutting down of Wacca
maw High School; a quarter page advertisement proclaimed in big
type that “$25 A Month Now Buys A New Ford V-8.”
A Forest Service lookout tower and a close-up of a towerman on
watch provided the front page picture for our edition of January 15,
1941. Plans were being made for an all-day meeting of the Bruns
wick REA at Waccamaw High school on the following Saturday.
Former Postmaster L. T. Yaskell had jumped the gun and had
brought in a string of freshwater fish, the first of the season; the
editor ran down a bunch of rumors that had to do with defense
installations in this area; and the H. S. Ward Store at Hickman’s
Crossroads had burned on the previous Sunday night.
It was Jan. 9, 1946, and men were still coming home from World
War II. One was Lt. David Watson, who had served as a Navy
Courier in the Southwest Pacific. A check-up revealed that a total
of 13 persons had lost their lives at the Jackies Creek Bridge in
the past 5 years, and a drive was on to remove tills death-trap
from U. S. No. 17.
The annual membership meeting of the Brunswick REA was set
for Old Dock school on Saturday of the next week; there was talk of
building a skating rink at Long Beach; and the local seafood firm of
Downing and Swan had made application for permission to construct
a packing house and dock.
The Pilot for January io, 1951, reported that Jimmie Moore,
Southport native, was being used as an actor for a television com
mercial down in Florida. They were selling candy. The Legisla
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New Superintendent
Of Schools Named
Retires
MRS. DELPHIA OBERJOHANN
retired from service at the Wac
camaw Bank and Trust Co. on
January 1. She is a native of
Southport and had served as teller
for the past 12 years.
Southport Man
Named On Board
Appointment of the 11-member
Commercial and Sports Fish
eries Advisory Board authorized
by the 1965 General Assembly
was announced today by Governor
Moore and included a Southport
man. All members will serve at
the pleasure of the Governor.
Representing the General As
sembly will be:
Representative Hugh A. Rags
dale, 56, of Richlands; Repre
sentative Leland V. Brinson, 36,
of Arapahoe; and Representa
tive W. J. Lupton, 59, of Swan
Quarter.
Named to represent commer
Elmer D. Willis, 60, ofWillis
ton, a seafood processor who
has been active in the North
Carolina Fisheries Association
as president, vice-president and
director; Ronald Tillett, 40, of
Wanchese, a seafood processor
and fishing vessel fleet owner;
and Lewis J. Hardee, 55, of
Southport, a seafood dealer.
Representing sports fisher
men on the board will be:
J. C. White, 58, of Fayetteville,
president of the Cumberland
County Wildlife Club and a re
tired civilian electronic engineer
for the Department of the Army;
William A, Shires, 39, manager
and Raleigh correspondent for the
North Carolina Association of
Afternoon Dailies; and Adrian
D. Hurst, 64, of Wilmington, a
member of the Southeastern
North Carolina Beach Asso
ciation and the North Carolina
Academy of Science, and a
teacher at Wilmington College.
The Governor chose the follow
ing to represent professional sci
entists; Dr. W. W. Hassler, 48,
of Raleigh, who does research and
teaching on the biology of sport
and commercial fish at North
Carolina State University at Ra
leigh; and Dr. A. F. Chestnut, 48,
of Morehead City, professor and
director, Institute of Fisheries
Research, the University of North
Carolina.
George F. williams of Peach
land in Anson county has been
named superintendent of Bruns
wick County Schools, succeeding
the late W. N. Williams, who was
killed in an automobile accident
in November.
The new official was elected
by unanimous action of the Bruns
wick County Board of Education
and will assume his duties Mon
day.
He is a graduate of Mars Hill
College and Western Carolina
College. He received his B. S.
degree there in 1952 and his
masters in 1958. He received his
superintendent’s certificate from
that institution in 1959.
He was a teacher and coach
in Atlanta for 6 years, was prin
cipal at Polk Central High School
in Union county for 6 years
ans was superintendent of Mor
ven City Schools for two years,
1963-65. Since August he has
served as registrar of Alveson
Draughon Business School in
Charlotte.
He is married and has four
children. He is a veteran of
World War II.
Other action taken by the board
of education at the Wednesday
night session included:
Attorney Kirby Sullivan re
ported to the board concerning
final action on the old Phoenix
School property. A report was
also given by Attorney Sullivan
on the Southport gym project.
The board rejected the bid of
$625 by Dub Clewis for a 1963
Dodge truck, serial no. 5820604
ana autnorizea tne sale or a iysi
Dodge pickup truck, serial no.
1181145741.
Jonathan Hankins, principal of
Union High School, was elected
as director of the Head Start
Program for the Brunswick coun
ty schools and Roy Biggerstaff
was elected as Federal program
director for the Brunswick coun
ty schools.
The newly elected superintend
ent was unanimously designated
by the board as the authorized
representative in applying for
Federal Funds under die pro
visions of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Brunswick Has
Many Visitors
A total of 51,358 visitors dur
ing 1965 placed Brunswick Town
third in the most popular historic
sites in North Carolina.
In first place was Fort Fisher
and second was the Town Creek
Indian Mound at Mt. Gilead. Over
600,000 persons visited the nine
historic sites under the care of
the Department of Archives and
History and set an all-time
record for attendance.
At Brunswick Town progress
is being made on the Visitors
Center-Museum, which is ex
pected to be completed in March
or April. The Gilbert Parrish
Construction Co. of Wilmington
is the general contractor. Dedi
cation ceremonies probably will
be held in May or June.
Work this winter on the part
of the staff is centered about
clearing the pond and develop
ment of the Nature Trail, a pro
ject sponsored by the Garden
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Hospitality Is
Extended Fant t
After Shipwrec^ ^
Cornelius Greenway and mem«
bers of his family have good
reason to be thankful for the
hospitality of Brunswick county
residents following the loss of \
most of their personal belong- '
ings when their floating home,
a 65-foot motor schooner, went
aground and capsized at Lock
woods Folly Inlet three days
before Christmas.
The Mary J. Rafferty, a yacht
registered in California, ran
aground in the waterway w^en
she apparently strayed from
the channel.
The schooner when hard
aground as the tide was ebbing;
and as the tide went out, tbit
yacht heeled over on thje bat
and was -holed. When the tide
rose, the hull filled wltfa water
and the boat did not right ib
seif, and the water level went
above the deck vents.
The 60-foot cutter Blackberry
and a 36-foot cutter wept to the
scene of the accident with
pumps, but could not empty
the hull because of the water
flowing into the deck vend.,
The Oak Island Coast Guard
Station said they decided to
wait until the tide receded, aid
then began pumping before the
'Wflfpr a train rficn thr* hfritffvfc
of the deck vents.
The schooner gradually lifted
her 60-foot mast Into the, ail1
and soon floated, about t pi. a.
Thursday, nearly 48 hours aft
er the Mary J. Rafferty went
aground.
She was taken under tow by
the fishing vessel Neha Pay of
Shallotte, and'with the two cut
ters still along side pumping to
keep the yacht afloat, she was
taken to Gregorys Railway at
Shallotte Point.
Greenway, who holds an im
pressive list of degrees from
various colleges and universities
throughout the world, has a wife,
Maria, and four children, a
daughter and three sons. Another
child is on the way. They make
their life aboard their boat, so
when she capsized and filled
with water, all of their personal
belongings were waterlogged or
ruined.
The night they went aground
In the intracoastal waterway, they
managed to get ashore In a small
boat and sat on the bank, wet
and shivering, until daybreak.
Then Brunswick hospitality began,
to come to light, and they were
made comfortable while work of
freeing their vessel was in prog
ress.
When it finally was floated
and was towed to Shallotte Point,
T. F. Gregory gave them a place
to tie up and a cottage in which
to stay while they are In this
area.
The duration of their stay poses
something of a problem, since the
vessel needs work to make her
seaworthy again and since many
of the comforts and necessities
aboard must be replaced. It has
been reported that there were
6 months provisions aboard when
the accident occurred.
The Greenway family was on
the way to Georgetown, S.
to visit friends when the mishap
took place just before Christ
mas. Following this visit they
planned to set sail for Spain,
which is their home. Now their
plans are indefinite.
Greenway’s credentials In
clude a degree as doctor of law,
and he has specialized In
admiralty law. It Is reported
that he has made some inquiry
concer: Jig getting his license In
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Tide Table
Folio win* is the tide Mh
for Southport during' the
week* These hoqM are ap
proximately correct and win
furnished The State Port
Pilot through the courier
of the Cape Fear PUoPs An
HIGH LOW
Thursday, January 13,
0:51 A. M. 7:10 A. M.
1:09 P. M. 7:34 P. M.
Friday, January 14,
1:51 A. M. 8:10 A. M.
2:09 P. M. 8:34 P. M.
Saturday, January 15,
2:51 A. M. 9:18 A. M.
3:03 P. M. 9:28 P. M.
Sunday, January 16,
3:51 A. M. 10:16 A. M.
4:03 P. M. 10:22 P. M.
Monday, January 17,
4:51 A. M. 11:10 A. M.
4:57 P.M. 11:16 P.M.
Tuesday, January 18,
5:39 A. M. 12:04 A. M
5:45 P. M. 12:04 P. M
Wednesday, January 19,
6:27 A. M. 12:46 A. M >J
6:33 P. M,_
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