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Volume 25
No. 39
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1966
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BOOSTERS—Melissa and Amelia Williams have presented $100 to the building fund
of the Southport-Brunswick County Public Library in memory of their father, William
Norman Williams. Shown here accepting the check is Miss Gertrude Loughlin, former
elementary school supervisor and member of the Building Fund Committee
Memorial but
For Library
Building Fund
Melissa and Amelia Williams
are the daughters of the late
William N. Williams, former
Superintendent of Brunswick
County Schools. Since their fa
thers death in an automobile
accident last November, the two
girls have wanted to do some
thing as a memorial to him.
They decided recently to give
$100 of their own money to the
Building Fund of the Southport
Brunswick County Public Library
in his memory.
And so, dressed in plaid suits,
and with bows in their hair, the
girls came from their home at
Sunset Beach to Southport to
present their gift. Miss Gertrude
Loughlin was on hand to receive
it, and to thank them.
Amelia and Melissa expressed
the hope that other people in
the county might give to the
Bill Williams Memorial Fund.
They thought that teachers,
students and others in the school
system might add their contribu
tions, and maybe make the
Williams Memorial the largest
for the new library building.
Through their donation, the
girls, aged seven and eight, be
come the youngest members of
the 100 Club. But more impor
tant to them is the fact that
they started the memorial fund
for their father.
SON KILLED
Word was received here last
week that S/Sgt. Marshall R.
Smith, son of Joe L. Smith of
Yaupon Beach, has been killed
in South Viet Nam. He was 30
years of age, a member of the
1st Cavalry Division and has a
wife and 4 children who live in
California.
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Dedication Of
Ferry Wednesday
State, county and city officials
participated in dedication cere
monies for the Southport-Fort
Fisher Ferry Wednesday after
noon, with Chairman J. M. Hunt,
Jr,, of the State Highway Com
mission, being the featured
speaker.
The program was opened with
the invocation by the Rev. L. D.
Hayman, who has held pastorates
in communities on both sides of
the Cape Fear river that will
be served by the ferry. A
welcome was extended by George
Rourk, chairman of the board
of commissioners for Bruns
wick County, and remarks were
made by Dr. Joseph W. Hooper,
chairman of the New Hanover
county board of commissioners.
He brought greetings from Con
gressman Alton Lennon, who ex
pressed regret that he was unable
to attend.
Keith Hundley, who served as
master of ceremonies, intro
duced members of the State High
way Commission and E. H. Baggs
presented members of the oper
ating crews of the ferry.
Senator J. Vivian Whitfield, a
long-time supporter of the Ferry
project, spoke of the occasion
as being the fulfillment of a
prayer, called for improvement
of highways in the coastal area
of North Carolina, saying that
this will develop a “coastal cres
cent” just as we now have a
Piedmont Crescent; and ventured
the thought that the day will come
when the ferry will be replaced
by a bridge over the lower Cape
Fear.
Ashley Murphy, Highway Com
missioner from Division Three,
spoke briefly as he presented
Chairman Hunt as the principal
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CLEMIT HOLDEN, member of
the board of commissioners for
Brunswick county, has announced
that he will seek the Democratic
nomination for commissioner
from Lockwoods Folly township
in the May primary. He is the
only new candidate to announce
this week.
speaker.
“This great region of North
Carolina has many tourist at
tractions. Its beaches are
among the finest. . .fishing is
great. . .History abounds. . .
the Battleship North Carolina
is a great attraction,” Hunt re
counted.
“. . .The highway commission
knows that in order to make
these attractions readily avail
able to the visitors roads are
necessary. And this ferry which
we dedicate today is an impor
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Ribon - Tying Ceremony
CONNECTED—Mayor M. L. Lowder of Kure Beach, Highway Commission Chair
man J. M. Hunt, Jr., and Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., of Southport are shown here as
they participate in the ribbon-tying ceremony Wednesday afternoon at the dedication
of the Southport-Fort Fisher ferry.
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Board Receives
Report On Use
Of Bond Money
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met in regular ses
sion last Tuesday and Dr. J. L.
Pierce, Director of the Division
of School Planning of the State
Department of Public Instruc
tion, discussed with the board
possible future building plans
for Brunswick county schools.
The following statements sum
marize the remarks made by
Dr. Pierce:
1. All expenditures made by
any local Board of Education of
funds provided by the bond is
sue can be made for permanent
structure for long range use.
2. Local funds are necessary
for a consolidation program.
3. A long range plan for school
construction must be submitted
and approved by the State De
partment of Public Instruction
and the State Board of Educa
tion.
4. Several building programs
for schools in Brunswick coun
ty might be followed but a build
ing program involving two con
solidated high schools appear to
be most feasible.
5. The likelihood of available
federal funds for school con
struction is remote in view of
the present war situation.
Supt. George Williams gave
a report to the board on the
National Association of School
Administrators Convention which
he attended recently.
Future scho6l needs in the Le
larid area due to the Dupont pro
ject were discussed. Supt. Wil
liams reported • to the board that
he was unable to get information
relative to their future plans.
Supt. Williams reported to the
board plans that have been made
for the Board of Education of
fice facilities in the old Bruns
wick County Boarding Home
building.
On a motion by Homer Holden
the board authorized the pur
chase of a surplus panel truck
stationed at Sunny Point.
On a motion by Del mar Bab
son the board authorized the
sale of two one-half ton trucks.
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Uyster reason
Ends March 15
It will be unlawful to take
oysters for any purpose from all
public bottoms In the State’s
coastal waters between March
15 and the opening of the 1966
oyster season, Dan E. Stewart,
director, Department of Conser
vation and Development, said this
week.
Stewart pointed out that the
1965 General Assembly repeal
ed all local laws permitting the
taking of oysters during the
closed season, with the new stat
utes taking effect last January 1.
The C&D director said the
current oyster season in the
State’s coastal waters will close
at sunset Tuesday, March 15.
This is being done, he added,
on recommendation of Dr. David
A. Adams, State fisheries com
missioner and head of the C&D
Department’s Divison of Com
mercial and Sports Fisheries
and in accordance with law.
Dr. Adams also warned that
it will be unlawful to take shrimp
for any purpose from public wa
ters until the 1966 season opens.
Honored At Banquet
AWARD—Dr. M. H. Rourk, left, receives an award from District Governor Thorne
Reynolds of his many years of service to Lions International at a Ladies Night pro
gram Thursday. This Shallotte man is now serving as a member of the Board of Dir
ectors of Lions Iternational and the program last week was a combined effort of clubs
in this zone, including his home club at Shallotte. (Beacon Photo).
Commission Needs
Applications For Jobs
A survey of all available labor
In Brunswick county is being
conducted by the Resources De
velopment Commission and the
Employment Security Commis
sion according to an announce
ment today by W. A. Powell,
chairman of the Resources De
velopment Commission.
Powell stated that the com
mission is working with a na
tional firm on their expansion
plans and that available labor
will be one of the determining
factors on whether the firm can
locate in Brunswick county.
Survey forms are being dis
tributed through the schools and
business establishments
throughout the county and every
citizen interested in employment
should complete the survey' ap
plication and return either to the
school or one of the locations
listed on the form.
Powell emphasized that all in
formation provided will be held
in strict confidence. The infor
mation will be used for two pur
poses. First it will be used to
contact prospective employees
when the firm makes its de
cision, and second the infor
mation provided will be used
to compile a report on avail
able workers in Brunswick coun
ty. In the report no names will
be used or other information that
could identify the individual who
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Time And Tide
In the Pilot for March 11, 1936, there was a picture of Joe Jelks,
Southport boy, whv had just been selected Best All-Round boy in
the senior class at Wake Forest College. The late Kelly Milliken
had been appointed Brunswick County Tax Collector, replacing
the late L. C. Brown who had resigned that post.
Bingo Burris was repairing the old Abrams dock at the foot
of Davis street preparatory to opening a seafood house: another
nautical note was that “City Alderman Sam Watts is busy these
days getting a Hudson (automobile) motor in shape to put in a big
party boat.”
Bolivia boys and Waccamaw girls were tournament winners in
1941 playoffs in Brunswick. That was front page news in The Pilot
for March 12. An interesting front page feature had quoted a Phil
adelphia radio announcer as referring to Bald Head Island as “tropi
cal paradise.” The entire scrip for the show was quoted. Capt.
Victor P. Lance had indicated his intention of basing his sports
fishing vessel here during the coming season.
There was a local discussion over lay days for quail hunting dur
ing the coming season, with Brunswick having been exempted from
a bill introduced in the State Legislature.
Tne old R. & s. Amusement Co. ofLeland had a new attraction for
the coming season—a couple of lion clubs—and their picture was
on the front page of our edition for March 6, 1946. Charlie Swan and
Andy Downing had begun work on a new shrimp dock in Southport.
It had required two overtime periods for Bolivia boys to defeat
Shallotte 21-19; renovations and repairs were underway at the Amuzu;
and Japanese cherry trees were blooming at Clarendon Plantation.
The time was March 7, 1951, and plans were being made for the
second Southport to Myrtle Beach Outboard Motorboat Marathon.
Spring was in the air and seed were going into the ground. That was
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Lions Pay Honor
To Dr. M. H. Rourk
Dr. Templon In
National Group
Dr. Norman A. Templon, Jr.,
of Southport has been elected to
active membership in the Amer
ican Academy of General Prac
tice, a national association of
29,000 family doctors.
As a member of the A AGP,
Dr. Templon will be required
to complete 150 hours of post
graduate medical study every
three years. The program, unique
among medical associations, is
designed to help member physi
cians keep abreast of the latest
scientific developments in medi
cine.
Founded in 1947, the AAGP is
the country’s second largest na
tional medical association.
Miss Brunswick
Show Saturday
The Miss Brunswick pageant
will be held Saturday night
at 8 o’clock at Shallotte High
School auditorium under the
sponsorship of the Shallotte Jay
cees. This will be the sixth
year of this competiton.
Director of this year’s event
will be Mrs. Shirley Ward who
is getting ten contestants from
several sections of Brunswick
county prepared to compete for
the title and the opportunity to
represent Brunswick in the Miss
North Carolina pageant later in
the year.
Serving as master of cere
monies for this event will be
Bill Rogers, television per- 1
sonality from WWAY, Wilming- .
ton. There will be specialty acts
to round out a complete evening
of entertainment in what has come
to be one of the most popular
annual programs to be staged 1
in Brunswick county. i
Following is a list of contest
ants: j
Priscilla Gay Hewett, Supply;
Shirley Carolyn Evans, Freelana; i
Sarah Carol Hickman, Shallotte; i
Jeanne Marie Brown, Southport; i
Wanda Faye Inman, Freeland; ;
Maureen Patricia Jenkins, i
Southport; Eunice Yvonne Chad
wick, Shallotte; Barbara Ann 1
Skipper, Shallotte; Gloria Annette :
Sellers, Winnabow; Marsha Dale i
Hickman, Winnabow. 1
Dr. M. H. Rourk of Shallotte,
member of the Board of Directors
of Lions International, was
honored by members of the
Lions Clubs of the Zone that
includes his home club.
Present for this occasion were
more than 150 Lions, many of
them high ranking officials in the
state organization, and many who
have been associated with Dr.
Rourk during his climb from
local office to membership on
the international board of di
rectors.
Zone Chairman D. V. Jones
opened the meeting and Rev.
M. L. Dehart, Jr., gave the
invocation. Following the ban
quet, Lion Wallace West, him
self a past member of the Board
of Directors for Lions Inter
national, took over as master of
ceremonies.
There followed an historic and
nostalgic tracingofdevelopments
that led to the high recognition
that has come to Dr. Rourk
as a series of speakers re
counted certain phases of his
Lion’s record.
Sanky Robinson, mamber of
the Mother Club at Whiteville
which sponsored the founding of
the club at Shallotte was the
first to recall some of the early
experiences of the Shallotte phy
sician as a Lion.
Next was James D. Bellamy,
member of the Shallotte club
who was intimately associated
with Dr. Rourk in Lionism and
who was president of the home
club the year Dr. Rourk was
nominated for International Di
rector.
Past District Governor Joe
Moss of Youngsville, the man
who placed his name in nom
ination for this high office, was
n attendance and spoke brief
■y.
Lion Ray Walton, who served
is a member of the Brunswick
bounty Board of Education, with
)r. Rourk, paid tribute to him
or his value as a citizen.
Former District Governor Roy
Sandlin, who served as campaign
nanager for Dr. Rourk in his
fuc-st for the office of Inter
lational Director, referred
0 him as “truly a dedicated
Mon”, an outstanding citizen and
1 beloved physician.”
District Governor Thorne Rey
iolds presented Dr. Rourk a
ilaque “in grateful apprecia
ion for his outstanding leader
hip from the Lions of Region
, Zone 1, District 31H”.
Dr. Rourk confessed that he
ad been taken completely by
urprise and said simply “This
s the greatest honor that has ever
een bestowed upon ms.”
Engineers Nix
River Drainage
For Waccamaw
The Army Corps of Engineers
has turned down the request filed
earlier for cleaning out and
straightening out the main chan
nel of the Waccamaw River.
The Engineers’ division of
fice in Atlanta advised people
in the Columbus and Brunswick
counties area and those across
the line around Conway, S. C.
that the report “is unfavorable
to the improvement.”
The report said investigating
officers had found that there is
not sufficient development along
the main stem of the river to
justify imprc.ements for flood
control or for protection in the
Conway area.
Cultivated land in the river’s
basin, the report outlined, is lo
cated almost entirely in the trib
utary watersheds and, further,
future flood control work should
be on these tributaries.
A public hearing on improve
ments along the river was held
in Whiteville April 27, 1961 at
which time landowners and oth
ers with an interest in better
water runoff in the river sub
mitted factual information point
ing out benefits which would ac
crue to timber and farm lands
from the requested improve
ments.
Engineers from the Corps’
Charleston district office heard
the testimony, studied it and now
their verdict is that the proposed
work would cost more than it
would be worth.
However, the report points
out, any new information help
ful to the cause should be sub
mitted for possible reversal of
the “unfavorable” report.
The report now goes to the
Chief of Engineers in Washing
ton for review and decision.
Dr. R. H. Holden
Died In Hospital
SHALLOTTE — Dr. Roths
child H. Holden, 71, of Shal
lotte, died Friday afternoon in
James Walker Memorial Hos
pital in Wilmington.
Dr. Holden was born in Sup
ply, son of John Holden and a
great grandson of Benjamin
Holden, the founder of Holden
Beach.
He entered Trinity College,
now Duke University, in 1916.
Dr. Holden entered the Army
in his sophomore year in col
lege and was sent to France
with the American Expedition
ary Forces. While in France
he attended the University of
Grenoble and upon return home
he entered the Emory School
of Dentistry in Atlanta, Ga.
He worked in the North Car
olina Department of Health be
fore establishing his own pri
vate practice in Durham in
1924.
In 1947 he moved to Shallotte
where he worked until his re
tirement in 1963.
He was a member of the
Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, the
American Legion Post 247 of
Shallotte, the veterans of For
eign Wars, a charter member
of the Lion’s Club, and a life
member of the state and Amer
ican Dental Society.
He was also past member of
the River and Harbors Con-..
gress; past chairman of the
Shallotte School Board, and at
the time of his death a mem
ber of Brunswick County
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Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These hot|ra 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, March 10,
10:33 A M. 4:34 A M
11:03 P M 4:46 P M
Friday, March 11,
11:21 A M 6:22 A M
6:34 P M
Saturday, March 12,
6:16 A M
12:09 P M 6:28 P M
Sunday, March 13,
0:51 A M 7:16 A M
1:03 P M 7:22 P M
Monday, March 14,
1:51 A M 8:16 A M
2:03 P M 8:22 P M
Tuesday, March 15,
2:45 A M 9:16 A M
3:03 P M 9:22 P M
Wednesday, March 16,
3:45 A M 10:10 A M
4:03 P M 10:22 P M